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Offline Gadget

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Re: A case of a Big-Head ?
« Reply #9 on: Monday 09 May 22 13:15 BST (UK) »
Maybe he was being facetious as no one but the officials and coders, etc. would see it at the time.
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Re: A case of a Big-Head ?
« Reply #10 on: Monday 09 May 22 19:00 BST (UK) »
If I've got the correct page, I think the enumerator was a Richard Butler Lidler


Yes that's him
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PS I have seen similar things (or perhaps the opposite, in some minds) on the 1939 National Registration except that the individual's details have squeezed two lines of test into one line.
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Re: A case of a Big-Head ?
« Reply #11 on: Monday 09 May 22 19:12 BST (UK) »
Maybe he was being facetious as no one but the officials and coders, etc. would see it at the time.

True but the general public would be able to see it in their lifetimes as at that time most census were released between 50 and 80 years after they were taken and a few even earlier
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