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Strange columns
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mgnv | Report | 30 Aug 2008 11:04 |
Thanks to the vagaries of Ancestry's transcriptions, if you want to see examples of blind people, then enter blind in their parish of birth. |
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Chica in the sun ☼ | Report | 29 Aug 2008 23:07 |
Yes it can be abit misleading at first. I had one written in that column "broken his back". When I mentioned it to an aunt, she said "oh I remember him now, he was a jockey and was thrown off his horse in a race". Now I would have never known that if the numerator hadnĀ“t put it in that column". |
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Madmeg | Report | 29 Aug 2008 22:04 |
Agree with Kath and Margaret, I saw an entire District with that column ticked, now unless the 500 people there were all deaf, dumb, blind or imbeciles, the column was used for some other purpose. |
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KathleenBell | Report | 29 Aug 2008 21:53 |
Sometimes if the last column is ticked it is because that particular person was born in a different county to the one they are living in at that particular census. |
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MargaretM | Report | 29 Aug 2008 21:31 |
I don't believe they just tick that column. The ones I've seen are written in, often something like "imbecile from birth" or "blind from childhood". |
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Lesley | Report | 29 Aug 2008 21:16 |
Does anyone know what the last column in the 1901 census means? It's headed; |