By the way when my Irish family came to Liverpool in the first CENSUS they called themselves NOWLAN??
Not necessarily. The original 1841 - 1901 UK census returns were destroyed. What we view today is the transcriptions by the enumerators into their summary books so the enumerator may have transcribed the surname incorrectly. Only the 1911 UK census has the original household returns.
UK census 1861 – Liverpool (St Martin)Patrick Nowlan, 37 - born Ireland
Anastasia Nowlan, 37 - born Ireland
Mary, 9 - born Ireland
James, 5 - born Ireland
William, 3 - born Ireland
Margaret, 1 - born Ireland
UK census 1871 – Liverpool (St Martin, 107 Athol Road)
Patrick Nolan, 47 - born Waterford, Ireland
Anastasia Nolan, 47 - born Wexford, “ditto”
Mary, 19 - born Waterford, Ireland
James, 5 - born “ditto”
William, 13 - born “ditto”
Patrick, 4 - born Liverpool
Margaret, 11 - born “ditto”
UK census 1881 – Liverpool (St Martin, 107 Athol Road)
Anastasia Nolan (Widow) 53 - born Ireland
William, 23 - born Ireland
UK census 1891 – Liverpool (Bootle)
Anastasia Nolan (Widow), 70 born Ireland
UK census 1901 – Liverpool (Bootle)
Anastasia Nolan (widow), 75 - born Ireland
James Nolan, 46 - born Ireland
Plus Jame’s wife & family
n.b. I had also added information transcribed from the 1911 UK census but it has been removed by the Copyright editor. I have no idea why as the transcription was taken from the ancestry.co.uk website where the 1911 census is now available alongside the 1841 – 1901 census returns.
I pointed this out to the copyright editor but no reply was forthcoming