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07-01-25, 01:05
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Funny things people wrote in the cenus
In the 1911 census, my second cousin twice removed, was 5 years old.
Her father who filled in the census form described her occupation as Mothers Torment! Her 15 year old sister was described as Mother's Help. I have found some funny and some sad things over the years, and this one made me smile. 
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07-01-25, 11:20
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I had one where written next to "wife", someone had written "she says".
I recently found a scottish bmd transcription for "Jean Lookoutboys" lol. OC
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08-01-25, 19:30
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I have probably told this story before, but a friend was a census collector who did an area populated by a lot of homeless people. Her brief was to write exactly what she was told if the people could not fill the form in themselves.
She had astronauts, brain surgeons, clowns, even one who identified as a lizard…….lol Heaven only knows what the family of any of these would think if our census was ever made public. Mum used to put all sorts of info on hers. She was never one for authority……..lol
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08-01-25, 20:22
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Lol Libby. Maybe I'll go looking for that one I loved where the subject was a cat. Except in this instance it appears to have actually been a cat, not a dithery human.
EDIT less than an hour later...  Finally found it! 1911 England Census for Tobit Crackit 6 Tobit Crackit [Tom Cat] 1903 8 Male Married House Butcher Soboiste Thief Birkenhead 109 Oxton Road Birkenhead Last edited by Janet; 08-01-25 at 21:18.
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08-01-25, 22:50
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It's Mouse Butcher Soloiste Thief.
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09-01-25, 01:15
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09-01-25, 12:42
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Only vaguely amusing if you aren't related to the lodger I suppose.
When the enumerator came round to my great great grandparents in Sutton on Trent, Nottinghamshire in 1851, whoever answered the door was not entirely helpful. They could provide the details of their family and one of the lodgers, but the second lodger has gone down on record as Charles Somebody, with both condition and place of birth unknown. if he's your brick wall, I can only apologise.
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09-01-25, 14:22
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My blood pressure still rises at the thought of my useless 4 x ggps, who, in 1841, had with them James Holden, 15, James Holden, 15, James Holden 15, ( yes, three James Holdens) and the infuriating Jane Holden age NK. Could they not have made a guess? 10? 50? 100? I so desperately want her to be my 3 x ggm and therefore their daughter - but she can't be, can she, otherwise they'd have known roughly how old she was.
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