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From: "Colin Liddell" <>
Subject: Re: [WAR] 1851 Census - How ages calcalated?
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:08:17 +1000
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My paternal grandmother knocked ten years off her age when she married my grandfather so that she was slightly younger than him.
It wasn't till I obtained her birth certificate that I found out. Sadly she died when my father was six months old so I never had the chance to ask her about it, probably would have been told to mind my own business if I had.{;-)

Colin in a warm Brisbane.
----- Original Message -----
From: Laura Thomas
To:
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [WAR] 1851 Census - How ages calcalated?


Hi All,

My gggrandmother was 31 in the 1871 census (true - I have her birth cert),
and 28 when she married in 1872! Neat trick!

Ellie

----- Original Message -----
From: "ann perrin" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: [WAR] 1851 Census - How ages calcalated?


> Hello all,
>
> I have a greatgrandfather who was 14yrs old on 1851 census and 17yrs old
on the 1861 census. Now girls, wouldn't we like to only get three years
older every ten?
>
> Ann in Australia
>
> Michael Fisher <> wrote:
> Hi David
>
> that's what they told the enumerator in my families to, seem to be what
> women did then and do now.(till they get very old and then they add a year
> or two)
>
> Mike in Droitwich
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Hodgson-Brown"
> To:
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:18 PM
> Subject: RE: [WAR] 1851 Census - How ages calcalated?
>
>
> > It's when the wife ages 9 years every decade that it becomes very
> > dubious:-)
> >
> > David HB
> >
>
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