1911 census- very helpful

[Kit]

* is going to have to stop talking to Margaret as none of my rellies have written names of dead children and I'm incredibly jealous *

[Merry]

You can still talk to me Toni as most of mine were not able to count up successfully the number of children I know they had, never mind any others.

[Margaret in Burton]

Originally Posted by Kit

* is going to have to stop talking to Margaret as none of my rellies have written names of dead children and I'm incredibly jealous *

[Kit]

Originally Posted by Merry

You can still talk to me Toni as most of mine were not able to count up successfully the number of children I know they had, never mind any others.

I'll always talk to you Merry.

I know how you feel. I've been looking through some newspaper death notices and my lot are now subtracting a child. ie they leave behind a wife and 5 children, when I know they had 6 and none were yet dead.

* ignores woman who can't keep her tongue in her mouth *

Kit

They probably just couldn't count or forgot how many. My Nan could never remember how many children she had it'd be 12 one day 11 another and sometimes went up to 13 or 14. I only know of 11 but she might have counted the still borns or something.

[Uncle John]

When I had access to the 19th. century provincial newspapers I found loads of "extra" children in the "Hatches Matches and Dispatches" columns who had been born and died between censuses.

[Kit]

Maggie you are probably right but it isn't one family it is a whole lot of different families. lol But you are right they probably couldn't count, or only counted those in the room with him.

UJ none of my UK lot who lost children between census were considerate to put them in the paper. OH's lot who didn't appear to have lost one child put nearly every birth in the paper.

The papers I've been looking at recently are those down under. Apparently there is one unmentionable child in every family I've looked at.