[Nell]

Sometimes the pieces all fit together from one entry.

1841 census has my widowed gt x 4 grandfather John Gray. Without a birthplace and as he is living in a different county from his birth county, I would never be able to be sure he was mine, but he is obligingly head of a household including his grand-daughter who has the more distinctive surname of Gillingwater and his sister-in-law who unmarried has kept her maiden name. This enabled me to be sure I found the right marriage for John and know that although he moved county the family were still close.