Have a look at the 1871 census:
RG10/2675 fo 76, p 3
Cheltenham Union Workhouse
The surnames are there, but where people appear on the row below someone and are labelled as "his wife" or "her child(ren/er)" they don't get a surname transcribed. The appear, on their own page, as "Sarah Her Child", say - but the "Her Child" bit doesn't appear as a surname.
How that's dealt with in the searches I've no idea. I've just been putting in corrections to allow for the likelihood that the children share their mother's surname, and the wife shares her husband's. Technically not a certainty, I suppose, but at least you're likely to look for that, eventually, even if it's wrong!
Christine
RG10/2675 fo 76, p 3
Cheltenham Union Workhouse
The surnames are there, but where people appear on the row below someone and are labelled as "his wife" or "her child(ren/er)" they don't get a surname transcribed. The appear, on their own page, as "Sarah Her Child", say - but the "Her Child" bit doesn't appear as a surname.
How that's dealt with in the searches I've no idea. I've just been putting in corrections to allow for the likelihood that the children share their mother's surname, and the wife shares her husband's. Technically not a certainty, I suppose, but at least you're likely to look for that, eventually, even if it's wrong!
Christine
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