PNK Middlesex?

[nowvoyager]

My ancestor gave her birthplace in the 1871 Census as "PNK Middlesex".  Is this a place, or is it perhaps just short for "place not known"?
She gives her birthplace in previous and subsequent census' variously as The Strand, City of London, and St Martins (which are more or less interchangeable).    PNK is different again.  Did she have temporary amnesia..!
Any ideas welcomed   

[nanny jan]

I've seen NK used on census for not known so PNK sounds possible for place not known.

I gre up in Middlesex and the abbreviation does not ring any bells!


Nanny Jan

[Valda]

'Parish or Place Not Known'. The census enumerator used the same abbreviations for the head of household who was born  in Manchester. On the 1871 census there are 11 people 'born' PNK (actually 80 for P N K). They range widely were their places of birth but all have just their county or country of birth given with the intials PNK.

Regards

Valda

[nowvoyager]

Well, thanks for your confirmation on this one, its funny that she knew one decade and not the next where she was born, ..temporary amnesia indeed  

[Valda]

'She' may not have supplied the details to the census enumerator that year on the doorstep, if the household wasn't able to write the details down on the household schedule. Or the census enumerator may not have been able to read the writing from the household schedule when he copied it into the census enumerator's book.

Regards

Valda