1911 Address on FMP lookup

[cpdavis35]

Hi everyone,

I've searched 1911 census on Ancestry for Mary Elizabeth Bursill living in St. Pancras, London (born 1850) but i can't find it. Please could someone check on FMP for me and let me know what the address is?

Thanks

[JBee]

Mary Elizabeth Bursill - says wife instead of head but then widow age 61
with daughter Florence age 26

90 Castle Road St Pancras

[cpdavis35]

Thank you JBee. I can now look up the address on ancestry and link it to my tree.

Mary was a widow as her husband Thomas passed away in 1909.

[Sylvia C]

for interest's sake, this is Mary Elizabeth on ancestry.

You might want to send a correction in so she can be found without using the wild card *

1911 Census

Name: Mary Eliabeth Bursell
Age in 1911: 61
Estimated birth year: abt 1850
Relation to Head: Wife
Gender: Female
Birth Place: Mile End
Civil Parish: St Pancras
Search Photos: Search for 'St Pancras' in the UK City, Town and Village Photos collection
County/Island: London
Country: England
Street address: 90 Castle Rd, Kentish Town, St Pancras
Marital Status: Widowed

[Anne in Carlisle]

That's funny. I had one very similar to this just the other day where it said Relation to head: Wife, Condition: Widow. To complicate things even more she was at the top of the list (ie presumably Head) but her mother was next, also a widow, and then some adult children. I don't think the transcription could cope with that because, after all, the transcription should say what is written. I thought at the time that maybe the house occupants had been using the word Wife as a more broad term such as is sometimes used in Scotland and northern England .... meaning 'head woman'.
Anne

[JBee]

It wasn't filled in by the lady in question but on her behalf.

Instead of Head it had Wife in the column and marital status Widow.

[GallowayLass]

Maybe the person doing the filling in hadn't understood the instructions and put Mary down as wife because they had always known her as a married woman and then realised that it should be head, widow.

[Anne in Carlisle]

In my case she had filled it in herself. Maybe just couldn't bring herself to put 'Head' but correctly said she was a widow.
Anne