In message <cb2a14ca02f834d256888f10a927bfa2@rogers.com>, Chris Roberts > However, in the Stanbridge case, it is with all of the >adults enumerated. > >Does anyone out there know the rule for this. For example, my couple >are both listed at age 45. Does that mean that they were simply nearer >to 45 than 40--say 43 or 44? No: the rules said that ages should be rounded down to the nearest multiple of five, so '45' means anything from 45 that day, up to 50 next morning (always supposing they knew their correct ages). Some enumerators could not cope with the multiplication involved, so used the exact age, though most had already got to grips with this concept in the eartlier censuses from 1801 (almost all of which no longer survive in any form). -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society