Census dates please explain - infant deaths

[ReadyDale]

Have another look

You might think that someone aged 1 in the 1871 census was born in 1861. But if they were actually approaching their second birthday in 1871 they could actually have been born in 1860.

Debra 

It's my age    I give up 

Is that your age +/- a year   

[Maiden Stone]

Have another look

You might think that someone aged 1 in the 1871 census was born in 1861. But if they were actually approaching their second birthday in 1871 they could actually have been born in 1860.

Debra 

It's my age    I give up 

Is that your age +/- a year   

Or a decade? 

[JenB]

OK, you've embarrassed me enough. Give it a rest please.

[Maiden Stone]

Guy, thanks for the list of dates. A relative of mine, aged 3 on 1911 census would have been 14 on 1921 census and 23 on 1931 census, because his birthday was after 1911 and 1931 census but before 1921 census. His future wife was 2 weeks old on 1911 census so her age increased by 10 years each census.