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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: JAKnighton on Tuesday 15 November 16 20:46 GMT (UK)
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After adding a new relative to my tree, I realised that she lived long enough to appear in every publicly available British census, from 1841 to 1911. It got me thinking about how often this appeared in my tree.
So far I have found my 4x great grandmother who lived from 1828 to 1911 (lived just about long enough!)
Who appears in every census in your tree?
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My g.gran just missed being on all the census from 1841-1911, she wasn't born until 1843. My mum born September 1911 didn't know her, but her older siblings did so I knew lots about this lady and when I was a child it seemed amazing to me that some of my aunts knew someone born nearly 100 years before me.
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I think I've only got one couple - my great great grandparents on my dad's mother's father's parents, everyone else misses one or the other - in one case she was born in July 1841
One born 1817-1916 and his wife born 1827 - 1914 (though I haven't found her on the 1841 census yet because her maiden name was Jones)
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not quite but one great great grandmother was born 1849, no birth cert (so no dob) just a baptism, but she appears from 1851 right through to the 1939 so after 17 years of research and waiting, I finally found out. She's with a daughter, granddaughter and redacted great-grandson - my dad- 4 generations!
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I have one he is a couple of weeks old on 1841 and dies August 1911 so literally just makes it. I have a few who managed 1851 to 1911.
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My GG Grandmother was born in 1838 & died in 1926 so is on all census 1841-1911. Not bad considering she was orphaned at the age of 6, had an illegitimate child at 18 and had her home bombed by a Zeppelin in 1916, killing her next-door neighbour. By the time she died had outlived her husband, all of her siblings, four of her children, and eight of her grand-children.
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3xGGfather James Hutchins born May 1838, died January 1917. Married twice, had 16 children (12 reached adulthood) with his first wife who predeceased him by 18 years (probably died of exhaustion :-X), second wife was the same age as his eldest son! Joined the Salvation Army later in life.
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I've just realised I do!
Elizabeth HAMLEY born c1836, died 1919. She's interesting because her husband never appears on any census with her- I initially thought she'd made him up! I later realised the marriage must have deteriorated fast and he is to be found living some way away with his sister. On his 1911 he gets the number of children correct but "married" is crossed out and in different handwriting written above "widower"!
William TURNER 1837-1915 (his wife Jane nee PERRY missed out by virtue of being born later in 1841)
Ellen GILL 1840-1920. I believe I've found more children for her thanks to the GRO. If proved, that will bring them up to 11.
More than I expected!
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My Nana.s adoptive father appears on 1841 census as a workhouse child .in 1901 nana is a baby boardingbwith him aged 61 and in 1911 hes aged 71 .and she is down as her adoptive father lived another decade
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Is this a record? I have EIGHT direct ancestors who appear on all censuses. There are two married couples, and four widowed ladies.
One of the ladies should appear on the 1921 census, too.
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Thomas Groves born in 1839. He is on every census from 1841 to 1911. He died in May 1921, just before the 1921 census which was taken in June.
I do have another one who was alive for every census from 1841-1911 but her entire family are missing from the 1851 census yet they had children baptised at their local church on the 30th March 1851.
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I have none.
My great great grandparents were all born after the 1841 census; and my great x3 grandparents all died before the 1911 census.
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There are several thousand in the 1939 register who claim to have been born in 1841 or earlier (but perhaps the dates are a little unreliable as there are people claiming to have been born in 1809, 1810, 1812, 1813, ...).
Richard
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On a slightly different tack, I found a living person on a census, about 12 years ago. My mother died in 2006 aged 102, not long after the Irish censuses for 1901 and 1911 appeared online. She was with an aunt in Roscrea aged 7 in 1911.
PS - I actually read the census in the Dublin office. I think it went on-line a bit later.
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I have one! My great x4 grandmother was born in 1829 and died in 1916.
I have a filliation order for her when she was born, have found her in every census (maiden name was unusual but spellings differ) and then I have a copy of the inquest into her death...she's my favourite find!
Lisa
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I have 1.
I was thinking that it was probably pretty common but out of 2800 in my FH software born before the first census, I only have death dates for 39 after 1911
That figure would be increased by those unrelated individuals I won't be following up and those who were in the 1911 census that I don't have a death for, but it's a back-of-a-fag-packet estimate of 1.5%
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My OH's side has one born 1836 and died 1919. More interestingly we have a photo of her post 1911 with her daughter, granddaughter and great granddaughter.
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Is this a record? I have EIGHT direct ancestors who appear on all censuses.
You beat me, as I only have six; but my children (aged 25-32) have nine (and their children will have more than that). The younger you are, the more you are likely to have.
I also have three more who made it to 1911 but were born in 1842, so they were close! (In fact one of those went past 1939 as well).
Richard
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Is this a record? I have EIGHT direct ancestors who appear on all censuses.
You beat me, as I only have six; but my children (aged 25-32) have nine (and their children will have more than that). The younger you are, the more you are likely to have.
Admittedly I'm closer in age to your children, so I'm at an advantage. :)
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Two direct ancestors. One a 3 x great grandmother born in Liverpool in 1838, died in Rochdale in 1917. The other a 2 x great grandmother born in Rushen Isle of Man in 1839, died in Castletown Isle of Man in 1930.
Blue
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My Latvian G G grandfather was on Russian censuses in 1840 .
English census 1891 1901
Then American census 1910 1915
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I'm only 26 years old myself so I should have more than most.
This is what I have:
1. Sarah Low born 1828, died 1911.
2. Robert Rodgers born 1837, died 1911.
3. Margaret McPartlan born 1833, died 1911.
4. Harrison Bunning, born 1834, died 1914.
5. Mary Gavin, born sometime in the 1830s, died 1915.
6. Sarah McCaffery, born sometime in the 1830s, died 1914.
The first three only just made it!
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My gggrandmother Ann Beattie was born in Springfield, Dumfriesshire, Scotland about 1829 and appears in all the censuses from 1841 in Scotland, to 1911 in Lingdale Boosbeck in Yorkshire via 3 husbands and 9 children, having been a greengrocer and then a china dealer as well as a wife and mother
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I have a Great Grandmother born 1840 died 1925, she is on all of the censuses 1841-1911 Looking forward to the release of the 1921 census to complete the set!