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Re: More Revelations from the 1911 Census
« Reply #234 on: Saturday 24 January 09 13:11 GMT (UK) »
My last one for tonight is 35 tweenys;  predominantly in the west country ???: ages 14-21. Of course all girls.
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Re: More Revelations from the 1911 Census
« Reply #235 on: Saturday 24 January 09 14:22 GMT (UK) »

Oh my goodness, takes me back to days of Cenuswhack!  ;D

Only 4 Tarts and one of those was Percy Hooker from Kent.

3 people were Poorly
25 Better and
10 Worse -
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Greenwich/Woolwich. - Clowting. Davis. Kitts. Ferguson. Lowther. Carvalho. Pressman. Redknap. Argent.
Hertfordshire - Sturgeon. Bird. Rule. Claxton. Taylor. Braggins

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Re: More Revelations from the 1911 Census
« Reply #236 on: Saturday 24 January 09 14:32 GMT (UK) »
Three Leicester women were Amazons.

Florence Salt, aged 18 from Farnham was a Balloonist.

Four women and one man claim to have been born in the moon, and two men on the moon.

Six men, one of them only 17  >:(  were on the wagon.
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Re: More Revelations from the 1911 Census
« Reply #237 on: Saturday 24 January 09 14:40 GMT (UK) »
I found a young man living with an older woman -she was listed as head of household, he a paramour
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Re: More Revelations from the 1911 Census
« Reply #238 on: Saturday 24 January 09 15:14 GMT (UK) »
Seven-year-old WIPINIS DORIS FRIGGS of Lambeth was a MADAME, as were seven others, including her elder brother, Cecil.

Reminds me of the old Clarkes shoe adverts of when I was quite small...VArious kids are asked what they want to be when they grow up and the final young girl pipes up "When I grow up, mummy says I'm going to be a proper little madam" A catch phrase that stuck with my family....

Can't find it on youtube though!
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Re: More Revelations from the 1911 Census
« Reply #239 on: Saturday 24 January 09 15:20 GMT (UK) »
58 were bananas
73 were oranges
william barrett in st ives was a HOME GARDNER AND TRAVELLER FOR MANDRAKE -who bought them?
henry harrup was a wolf dale layer on...
4 claimed to be prime minister, including 17 year old Gladys Hooper from Marylebone and someone calling himself Henry Herbert Asquith
and ten year old John Usher from Selby was the youngest of 8 archbishops
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Re: More Revelations from the 1911 Census
« Reply #240 on: Saturday 24 January 09 15:27 GMT (UK) »
A rousing cheer please for William Edward Moss who was Teetotal.
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Re: More Revelations from the 1911 Census
« Reply #241 on: Saturday 24 January 09 15:42 GMT (UK) »
5 people worked in vegetarian shops...and in case you didn't know any vegetarians in 1911 and wanted to get hold of one... 14 people were "vegetarian dealers"

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Re: More Revelations from the 1911 Census
« Reply #242 on: Saturday 24 January 09 15:50 GMT (UK) »
I just found three water diviners, including Doctor Lincoln Tootill.

And ten people, including one Vincent Spampanato, were Fruity.
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