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Title: Help deciphering census entry
Post by: las camelias on Friday 20 July 12 09:48 BST (UK)
Can anyone tell me what the missing word is on this entry please

Deborah Yates, dau, 8,  ........ in family

Thankyou

LC
Title: Re: Help deciphering census entry
Post by: Gadget on Friday 20 July 12 09:54 BST (UK)
Hi



the extract is a bit small. Here's a larger snip:

Title: Re: Help deciphering census entry
Post by: genjen on Friday 20 July 12 09:59 BST (UK)
The nearest I can get is Yout ( Youth?) in Family but I'm not at all happy about that? ???

Jen
Title: Re: Help deciphering census entry
Post by: morgansdeptford on Friday 20 July 12 10:09 BST (UK)
Hi.

Could it be "visiting Family"? I note that her mother is listed as crippled. Could this be a reference to her caring for her mother? There is a similar example of the handwriting on page 8 of this census and I believe it says "visiting from London". I may be wrong.


Title: Re: Help deciphering census entry
Post by: Gadget on Friday 20 July 12 10:15 BST (UK)
Throwing this in as an outside possible  :-\

Assist in Family

Long first s and an incomplete A
Title: Re: Help deciphering census entry
Post by: PaulineJ on Friday 20 July 12 10:17 BST (UK)
The mother seems to be "crippled"

I was thinking Assistant/ servant in family?
Title: Re: Help deciphering census entry
Post by: Gadget on Friday 20 July 12 10:38 BST (UK)
Quote from: brevitas on Friday 20 July 12 10:15 BST (UK)
Throwing this in as an outside possible  :-\

Assist in Family

Long first s and an incomplete A

Further to this - the Laundress just below also has the old long s
Title: Re: Help deciphering census entry
Post by: Geoff-E on Friday 20 July 12 13:03 BST (UK)
Quote from: brevitas on Friday 20 July 12 10:15 BST (UK)
Assist in Family

That was my thought too ... or perhaps a mis-spelling of Assisting Family :)
Title: Re: Help deciphering census entry
Post by: las camelias on Friday 20 July 12 13:51 BST (UK)
Thankyou all, I am resolved to put Assisting.  Happy weekend

LC
Title: Re: Help deciphering census entry
Post by: Skoosh on Friday 20 July 12 13:58 BST (UK)
"Youngest in Family", she should have been at the end, so correction.

Skoosh.
Title: Re: Help deciphering census entry
Post by: genjen on Friday 20 July 12 14:11 BST (UK)
Quote from: Skoosh on Friday 20 July 12 13:58 BST (UK)
"Youngest in Family", she should have been at the end, so correction.

Skoosh.


But the next two children were younger?

I can't make that first letter be an A. It's nothing like the A of Ag Lab on the line above. I tried to make it say Servt but couldn't quite get there either.

Jen
Title: Re: Help deciphering census entry
Post by: carol8353 on Friday 20 July 12 14:17 BST (UK)
My first thought was oldest in family,but then I cam also see it saying assist in family.It would usually says assists in family ,meaning that she was no longer going to school.