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I think it was on the 1861 or 71, but there were 2 girls aged 6 and 8 who were described as "daughter in law"! Turns out it should have been "step-daughter"
That's not so much an error as a different terminology. The term "step" didn't come into vogue until later. Until then, what we know as "step" (and I don't like that term personally) was for our ancestors "in law".
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)
Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.