Can anyone decipher this census return for me?

[mauricej]

.....then this, perhaps, is her birth:-

Mary Anne Richards,   
   
Birth March 1907 - Haverfordwest  11a  1327

[suitcase]

yes, I just found that once I had the death to go on :-)

will order the certificates and see. very sad - would have been my grandfather's little sister

thanks again all,
Suitcase

[dobfarm]

Then why would she appear!  then be crossed out on the 1911 census.

I could understand if she had just died days before just before or even on the census date ~ I think the parents wouldn't have said her name out of habit unless she had just died of recent.

[Colin Cruddace]

Probably just confused by the questions in the 1911 census, which asks for number of children born to this marriage and how many are still alive.

When listing their children, the deceased were included with their projected age, but there was no provision for date of death.

They did their best to provide the required information, which wasn't quite right, and was crossed out somewhere along the line. It's impossible to say if this was before or after it was handed in, but these mistakes can be an unexpected boon to researching the family.

Colin