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I quite like finding a few surprises in my family tree. The 1921 census and 1939 register has thrown up some.
One hot summer day in late July 2004 I went to the Society of Genealogists in London on a few day trip there, and used their computers in the basement room, which also had lots of indexes of Boyds Marriage Indexes and census reels. I went on Ancestry to find my 2xgreat gran in the 1871 census in London, and it took some time due to the common name, and I found her aged 7 in Bow, East London and I got a surprised when it said her birthplace was given as Sussex, yet the next sibling aged 6 was said to be born London. Yet great, great gran had said in 1881, 1891 and 1901 census she was born in London, Stoke Newington. I then found her birth cert which proved it was mid Sussex and her parents moved to London soon after her birth, and her father had lived in Brighton for a time, originally from Kent.
Researching:
LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain