Yes, sorry, they were rounded down so people could be older than shown on the census;   Joy ________________________________ From: Jon <berksmon@outlook.com> To: devon@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, 26 January 2014, 13:16 Subject: Re: [DEV] STOOKE family of Dawlish From: Joy Langdon The census enumerator's instructions for the 1841 census were to round the ages up to the nearest 5 years. Hi Joy, I think you meant to say that ages were rounded down, not rounded up? Best wishes, Jon ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message