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10-05-23, 22:25
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First time I have ever seen this on a census
1921 census entry for the Drummond family of Ashton Under Lyne.
The person who filled in the form got "female" and "male" the wrong way round for the whole family! (Parents and 7 children.) https://search.findmypast.co.uk/reco...83%2F0439%2F01 He (the householder) also thought he was the enumerator and filled that bit in, but I haven't noticed whether others did that too. I suppose on previous censuses other than the 1911 we would only see the enumerator's version, but I don't remember seeing something like this on any other 1921 census entries. On the 1911 they just have male and female columns so I suppose there are plenty of mistakes with those. 
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11-05-23, 02:38
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How curioius. I have to wonder, written out in full like that, can it be anything but deliberate, Kite? And why?!
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11-05-23, 07:43
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Perhaps that's how he believed they all identified?
 Maybe it was a mild protest against the census? When my OH's grandfather filled in a Spanish census in 1920 he wrote that his occupation was Prince and that he was born in La Granja palace, San Ildefonso in central Spain which is about 200 miles from his actual birthplace near Valencia on the coast!
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"Something has been filled in that I didn't know was blank" Matthew Broderick WDYTYA? March 2010
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11-05-23, 08:11
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I agree with Merry, that it was a mild protest.
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