1841 census MARLOW - Twickenham

[Pinetree]

Sarah,

The Harrisons definitely appear in that order with those ages.

One thing I have noticed is someone appears to gone over the adult ages to round them down to the nearest 5 or 10.  The first Fanny's age reads as 28 but the 8 has been written over with a 5.  The 0 of the 30 of the second Fanny looks as if it might have been witten over a 4.  I wonder if she was a child and her age was given as 4, amended to 3 and when the rounding was done misread as 34 and rounded to 30.  A bit convoluted I know but if that fits better with the members of the family you know of it may be the answer.

Frances Marshall was a lady by the way - her age looks as if it may have been written as 27 originally.

From the previous pages I'm pretty sure Hana Road is an abbreviation for Hanworth Road.

Phew - I hope that all makes sense    Much as we love the info we can get from the census - 1841 could definitely be more user friendly.

All the best,

Pinetree

[smm]

Phew indeed! Thank you! At least we can see some of the workings.....when the electronic 2001 census is eventually released to future generations they'll never know how mnay times the input data was changed!

I'll sit and try and unravel the information. My great uncle started 'doing tree' before he died and I am left with his notes. I was trying to ascertain their accuracy before building on them too much.
His tree shows three children for the Harrisons - Fanny born Feb 1837, James born Oct 1839, and William born Sep 1841 (ie three months after teh census), but you found William already aged 1 in the census so I need to to do some more digging around! As I ever I find that one piece of information poses more questions than it answers :-)

Thank you for your help so far....

Sarah