Very likely some of those children were born and died between censuses...it happened regularly and it's only when you get to 1911 that you find that out. Presumably you have the marriage date of the family who had 16 children? Have you looked to see if there were children farmed out to extended members of the family. That often happened as people just couldn't afford to keep them. Best wishes to you all from an overcast day in Peregian Beach, Sunshine Coast of Australia!! Liz www.btinternet.com/~e.newbery --- On Thu, 18/11/10, Charani <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Charani <[email protected]> > Subject: [B&D] How did he manage it? > To: "B+D List" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, 18 November, 2010, 23:33 > I've just been tidying up one of my > lines and have found someone who > appears in the 1841 census as a 7 year old living with his > parents and >   in the 1851 still with his parents. > > In 1861 he's married but with no children.  In 1871, > 1891, 1901 and > 1911 he's still married to someone who seems clueless as to > where she > was born but with no children.

ELIZABETH NEWBERY wrote: > Very likely some of those children were born and died between > censuses...it happened regularly and it's only when you get to 1911 > that you find that out. There's no doubt that accounts for several of them. I wasn't sure this couple were actually going to make it to the 1911 since they were both born in the early 1830s. The 1881 census is the only one I can't find him in at the moment. > Presumably you have the marriage date of the family who had 16 > children? I haven't been able to find it so far. The husband had a fairly unusual given name and I've searched just on that but found nothing apart from a marriage in 1848 at a time when he was still an apprentice and still living with his family by whom he's given as single. He claims to have been married 38 years in 1911 so married 1873(ish). In 1861 he says he was married to the lady he was living with then. Later in life he moved around a fair bit, winding up in Yorkshire where he died in 1913 > Have you looked to see if there were children farmed out to > extended members of the family. None that I've found so far but with him having a number of brothers it wouldn't easy to spot a stray child if s/he was put down as a son or dau by the enumerator instead of niece or nephew. There are no obvious strays in this family after 1836. > That often happened as people just couldn't afford to keep them. 10+ children weren't unusual in this family. The chap concerned was one of 14 (I think). I'm steadily working through all of them to see if any of the sisters had a stray with her maiden name living with her family. > Best wishes to you all from an overcast day in Peregian Beach, > Sunshine Coast of Australia!! And to you from a very sunny South West corner of England which is hopefully drying out a very zoggy Cornwall. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk http://www.savethegurkhas.co.uk/ -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk http://www.savethegurkhas.co.uk/