We were having trouble finding a family on one of the censuses, we had in fact picked him up, but the place he was born was wrong and his wifes name was wrong, so it was discounted.
The address where he was living eventually clinched it.
So why was his place of birth given incorrectly.
I imagine the Enumerator going to the house, where the man and his family lived, and saying something like "and where was Father born" The man of the house said Dudley, which is where his own father was born.
The same Enumerator having been told the wifes name was Mary Ann, had written it down as Marion, well I suppose it can sound similar.
The address where he was living eventually clinched it.
So why was his place of birth given incorrectly.
I imagine the Enumerator going to the house, where the man and his family lived, and saying something like "and where was Father born" The man of the house said Dudley, which is where his own father was born.
The same Enumerator having been told the wifes name was Mary Ann, had written it down as Marion, well I suppose it can sound similar.
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