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Offline Tickettyboo

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Re: I can't get near this one!
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 06 November 25 16:53 GMT (UK) »
Even if there is no other instance of this surname on the page, the census reference is useful to get a feel for how the enumerator formed his letters

If I got the right census return then the full record can also be be used to work out leads  such as the following:
Marriages Q4 1884 Manchester. 8d 359 (per freebmd)
John Windridge - Mary Ann Croft

Lancs BMD shows that this marrriage took place at Manchester St Philip - their local ref is 93/5/353

and the GRO site which gives MMN prior to 1911 is free to search to check out the childrens' births to cross ref the MMN, if you search though systematically from the marriage year, you can possibly find children born and died too soon in between census years.

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Re: I can't get near this one!
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 06 November 25 21:24 GMT (UK) »
Thank you all. As you correctly guessed it was from the 1901 census. My great grandmother had this as her address when she married in 1895 (Mary Jane Smith) but in 1891 it was the White family and 1901 now the Windridge family. I’ll keep digging.