I agree with you that it may be badly transcribed, but what I was saying was that there was a war plus there other as many other reasons why they were not at home or where we think they would have been such working away, not wanting to be on the census (I mean that happens even today) ill in hospital the list is long, plus we just not looking in the right place lol Regards Janice ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Rouse" <cambs@timewarp.demon.co.uk> To: <ENG-CAMBRIDGESHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 8:15 PM Subject: [ENG-CAMB] Re: : Why they are not on 1901 census > In message <011801c460de$a5e0dd00$db646b51@patriot>, Janice Aitkens1 > <janice.aitkens1@ntlworld.com> writes > >Hello > >I got this on another list & thought it may be why we don't always find the > >men we looking for. > > > >At the time of the 1901 Census, a lot of men were in the armed forces, > >serving in South Africa in the Boer War > > A simpler solution is that they were badly transcribed. My TINDILL > family were transcribed as TZNDILL. It took me ages to find them, and > then only because my grandfather had a very unusual Christian name. > > John > -- > John Rouse > > > ==== ENG-CAMBRIDGESHIRE Mailing List ==== > . >