Is it likely a married woman would say single?

[Guest]

I am looking for somebody in the census records and think I may have found her but she is saying single and employed as a servant her husband is elsewhere on the same census year would she have lied to get the job maybe ?

[dopeyploppy]

Quite possibly.
I remember my great gran b 1908 was in service, once she married she had to leave.

[Guest]

thanks Jayne I did wonder if that was the case

[Anne in Carlisle]

It may not have been her who filled in the form - perhaps her employer just didn't know she was married? On the other hand the ennumerator may have just filled in Single for all servants by mistake.

Anne

[Guest]

hadn't thought of that thanks Anne