I've been seaching the census returns for new information and found this page from 1891 which has my family Rawlinson on it. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...Fedit%2Frecord
As you can see, although his handwriting is neat the enumerator apparently didn't have a very high level of spelling skills and possibly had some hearing loss, too. The surname is spelt wrongly and so are quite a few of the first names but what particularly caught my eye was the youngest daughter's name! I haven't seen this child on any other records so it is a bit of a mystery. Anybody got any thoughts?
And the bit that has been making me chuckle is that my great-grandfather had a bit of a reputation for drinking (a lot). Try saying some girls names out loud after an evening in the pub and see what you come up with.
As you can see, although his handwriting is neat the enumerator apparently didn't have a very high level of spelling skills and possibly had some hearing loss, too. The surname is spelt wrongly and so are quite a few of the first names but what particularly caught my eye was the youngest daughter's name! I haven't seen this child on any other records so it is a bit of a mystery. Anybody got any thoughts?
And the bit that has been making me chuckle is that my great-grandfather had a bit of a reputation for drinking (a lot). Try saying some girls names out loud after an evening in the pub and see what you come up with.
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