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Offline Keith Sherwood

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Re: 1881 Census Entry - What is it supposed to mean...?
« Reply #36 on: Thursday 27 October 05 13:40 BST (UK) »
Hi, Everyone,
Just a postscript on this lively and entertaining thread (while it lasted) in that I've had a look on the ScottishPeoples website at their newly-up-and-running 1861 Census.  I've paid my Scottish pounds to discover for the first time that James Greaves Dyson had a half-brother called Thomas Dyson born in Innellan, near Dunoon, Argyllshire in 1849/50.
HE must surely be the witness at his half-brother's wedding in 1871, and as I hadn't put in the "Born in Scotland" element when I searched the 1881 English Census, he wasn't in the short-list.
However, some good family history was unearthed on this thread, even if it was the wrong Thomas...
Thanks for all those contributions, nevertheless,
Keith

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Re: 1881 Census Entry - What is it supposed to mean...?
« Reply #37 on: Thursday 27 October 05 16:07 BST (UK) »
I love it when you unearth a new sibling, well done Keith and good luck for the rest of the tree!

Mary
Census Information is Crown Copyright, from The National Archives <br />Lunt (Wavertree/West Derby), Forshaw (West Derby), Richardson (Knowsley), Kent (Cheshire), <br />Cain (Hertfordshire, London), Larkins (Bedfordshire, London), Nunn (London), Lenton, Hillyard (Bedfordshire), <br />Parle, Lambert, Furlong, Wafer (Wexford)<br />Special separate interest in Longford (Blackrock, Dublin)

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Re: 1881 Census Entry - What is it supposed to mean...?
« Reply #38 on: Thursday 27 October 05 17:42 BST (UK) »
Mary,
Even though I had to spend a little of my hard-earned money on a pay-per-view 1861 Scottish Census, it was still a thrilling moment (what DO people make of us mad family history enthusiasts? - I know members (living) of my own family think I'm past salvation).
And I see this thread has been shunted away from the mainstream and headlight glare of The Common Room.  But this was my first experience of a Workhouse Porter and Portress (politically incorrect, surely, today...)
Very best wishes,
keith

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Re: 1881 Census Entry - What is it supposed to mean...?
« Reply #39 on: Thursday 27 October 05 20:08 BST (UK) »
For those of you who might be interested, here is a free site:


http://www.egrave.com/index.asp

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