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Beginners => Family History Beginners Board => Topic started by: FidgeJ on Saturday 25 August 12 18:05 BST (UK)
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Traced my family on the 1911 census - there is a mother, father and 4 children still living at home.
My great grandfather (one of the siblings) is at that time registered on the census but elsewhere - he was in the army full time at this point and his sister Kate is a servant living in another house.
My query is this: on the main household census it asks how many children still living and how many born alive - 7 has been filled in but there are only 6 that I can count. I went back onto the 1901 census to check and henry and kate are living there still with the other 4 siblings.
Do you think this was a genuine mistake as maths wasn't a strong point then probably?
Or is there something else going on?
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Hi
Welcome to rootschat :)
I presume you are talking about your Fidgeon family
I don't think you have included Emma in your calculations
1891 has these children
Emma M Fidgeon 8
Henry J Fidgeon 6
Kate E Fidgeon 4
William W Fidgeon
1901 these children
Henry Fidgeon 17
Kate Fidgeon 15
Walter Fidgeon 13
Florence Fidgeon 10
Eliza Fidgeon 8
Thomas Fidgeon 4
Rosie
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Thanks so much for this!
I must have missed that entirely, she wasnt on 1901 census so must have moved out when she was 18/19