1851 Census Burnham

[Skull]

I have an ancestor who appears twice in the 1851 Census for Burnham.

Ann Eliza Plumridge aged 6 is listed with her grandparents William and Mary Plumridge at Malthouse, Burnham.

She must have then nipped around the corner to the High Street where she is listed aged 7, and living with her parents James and Mary Plumridge and siblings.

They aged quickly in those days!

Is this common for a person to appear in the census twice in the same village? Or are they 2 different people?

Skull

[tazzie]

   Happens....

  The child was probably present at her grandparents house at the time. Whilst at her parents house they may just have been asked .... Childrens names?  as a question and then the form filled in .
 Even in 1891 my grt grt uncle appears twice  but he had only been married 3 weeks so Dad may have forgotten that he had left home.

 Tazzie