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Offline Quarryman

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« on: Tuesday 13 July 21 16:05 BST (UK) »
Going through a census entry for a family I am researching I came across this at the end of the entry: Jane, child of head". The head of the house was a widower, whose wife died round about the time of the wife's death.

Can anyone help me with this puzzle
Roberts, Caernarfon. Thomas, Caernarfon. Kite, Kent.

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Re: census mystery
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 13 July 21 16:27 BST (UK) »
Can you give us the census entry details so we can have a look please.

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Re: census mystery
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 13 July 21 16:36 BST (UK) »
whose wife died round about the time of the wife's death.
I find this a puzzle so could you explain, please?
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON

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Re: census mystery
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 13 July 21 16:47 BST (UK) »
This is in the 1851 census for Anglesey. The address is Craig Nen (?) Llandysilio. The family is called Dew and the head is widower Thomas Richard Dew. The puzzle is why the girl Elizabth Ann is described as "daughter to head". Can't find a name or death date (possibly 1849/1850) for Dew's late wife. Elizabeth Ann is obviously (?) not the daughter of Dew and his former wife. Or am I jumping to conclusions
Roberts, Caernarfon. Thomas, Caernarfon. Kite, Kent.


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Re: census mystery
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 13 July 21 16:48 BST (UK) »
Sorry Josey, this should have read "died about the time of the child's birth".
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Re: census mystery
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 13 July 21 16:52 BST (UK) »
I think the last child Elizabeth Ann age 2 was just put down out of order and was the child of Thomas Richard

Her birth reg on the GRO Index lists her mother's maiden name as the same as her sisters

 DEW, ELIZABETH  ANNE  mmn    JONES     
GRO Ref: 1848  J Qrter BANGOR AND BEAUMARIS UNION  Vol 27  Page 338

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Added - Later child Jane
DEW, JANE     mmn   JONES     
GRO Refe: 1850  M Qter BANGOR AND BEAUMARIS UNION  Vol 27  Page 301

and first child
DEW, ELIZABETH  ANNE  mmn    JONES     
GRO Ref: 1848  J Qter BANGOR AND BEAUMARIS UNION  Volume 27 Page 338

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Re: census mystery
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 13 July 21 16:55 BST (UK) »
There is a death and burial in June 1850
Elizabeth Anne Dew, 26 yrs
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