where, when the father has died, the oldest (adult but unmarried son), rather than his mother, is named as head of the household.? My friend apparently has one of these.
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Yes, I can recall two from memory and there may be more if I looked.Co-ordinator for PoW project Southern Region 08
Researching:- Wieland, Habbes, Saettele, Bowinkelmann, Freckenhauser, Dilger in Germany
Kincaid, Warner, Hitchman, Collie, Curtis, Pocock, Stanley, Nixey, McDonald in London, Berks, Bucks, Oxon and West Midlands
Drake, Beals, Pritchard in Kent
Devine in Ireland
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Could HE be the owner of the house and his mother and siblings moved in with him ?....if this happened to me and my dad had died and mum couldn`t cope financially- I would certainly have taken my mother and siblings in to my home ...so as OC says ...I wouldn`t think it unusual ....I presume there must be several reasons for a son to be Head of household ...maybe they were all just visiting him on the day of the census ?Allan ......... researching oakes/anyon/standish/collins/hartley/barker/collins-cheshire
oakes/tipping/ellis/jones/schacht/...garston, liverpool
adams-shropshire/roberts-welshpool
merrick/lewis/stringham/nicolls-herefordshire
coxon/williamson/kay/weaver-glossop/stockport/walker-gorton
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I think it mostly had to do with victorian attitudes, when women were seen as ineffectual and ALWAYS deferred to men. My own mother never did a thing without my father's permission and was almost proud of the fact that she had never written a cheque, did not know how to pay a bill etc - "Oh, my husband takes care of all that". She would have been incapable (or terrified) of handling any decisions and would have happily handed over the reins to my brother. She would never have considered herself "head of household" while there was a man around.
OC
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Originally posted by fran View PostI have a case (1881) where both parents are alive and relatively young,and the head of the household is the single eldest son.
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