I imagine it is not unknown for a person to appear twice in the same census but this is the first time I have come across it.
I was searching in the 1881 census for my Evans ancestors and found them living on the Croydon Road, Streatham, Surrey [RG11 0667/53 33]. One daughter, Mary Evans, was missing but I traced her to another address in Streatham, Coventry Park Mayfield [RG11 0667/38 4] where she was in service as a housemaid. Curiously there was an Annie Evans, relationship to head of household "other", aged 11 scholar, born Streatham. This is clearly Mary's youngest sister but she also appears at the Croydon Road address but aged 9, which is actually incorrect.
Presumably on the day of the census she was staying with her sister but her parents punctiliously reported her to the enumerator as she usually lived with them.
Although it is disturbing that this mistake was made, as a genealogist I would rather have someone entered twice than not at all.
I was searching in the 1881 census for my Evans ancestors and found them living on the Croydon Road, Streatham, Surrey [RG11 0667/53 33]. One daughter, Mary Evans, was missing but I traced her to another address in Streatham, Coventry Park Mayfield [RG11 0667/38 4] where she was in service as a housemaid. Curiously there was an Annie Evans, relationship to head of household "other", aged 11 scholar, born Streatham. This is clearly Mary's youngest sister but she also appears at the Croydon Road address but aged 9, which is actually incorrect.
Presumably on the day of the census she was staying with her sister but her parents punctiliously reported her to the enumerator as she usually lived with them.
Although it is disturbing that this mistake was made, as a genealogist I would rather have someone entered twice than not at all.
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