On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:42:59 +0000, MB <MB@nospam.net> wrote: >On 27/10/2015 19:21, Charles Ellson wrote: >> Descriptions of parents can be less certain with e.g. some people >> described as born in Canada who were actually born elsewhere but moved >> to the USA after living in Canada for some time. Also some parents >> managed to forget which children were born "back home" and which in >> their new country, usually only affecting one child. > > >Can be as bad enough on our censuses. My GG Grandmother is described as >born Ireland, America, Quebec, Canada on various censuses so I still do >not know where she was born. > There is a particular problem at various times of people born in Ireland changing their declared birthplace. My great-grandmother's husband and his siblings were born in Dungannon but by 1901 were giving their birthplaces variously as Glasgow, Stranraer or (for my ggm's husband) Wigtown. OTOH my 3g gf is listed as born in Ireland with one exception of 1871 when his birthplace was given as the neighbouring parish in Invernessshire which I suspect was more likely an error by the enumerator or maybe his daughter ("Was your father born locally as well ?"?).

On 27/10/2015 21:50, Charles Ellson wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:42:59 +0000, MB <MB@nospam.net> wrote: > >> On 27/10/2015 19:21, Charles Ellson wrote: >>> Descriptions of parents can be less certain with e.g. some people >>> described as born in Canada who were actually born elsewhere but moved >>> to the USA after living in Canada for some time. Also some parents >>> managed to forget which children were born "back home" and which in >>> their new country, usually only affecting one child. >> >> >> Can be as bad enough on our censuses. My GG Grandmother is described as >> born Ireland, America, Quebec, Canada on various censuses so I still do >> not know where she was born. >> > There is a particular problem at various times of people born in > Ireland changing their declared birthplace. My great-grandmother's > husband and his siblings were born in Dungannon but by 1901 were > giving their birthplaces variously as Glasgow, Stranraer or (for my > ggm's husband) Wigtown. OTOH my 3g gf is listed as born in Ireland > with one exception of 1871 when his birthplace was given as the > neighbouring parish in Invernessshire which I suspect was more likely > an error by the enumerator or maybe his daughter ("Was your father > born locally as well ?"?). > One of my g-grandfather's brother's birthplace is variously listed as Sheffield, Scarborough or Yarmouth in various censuses, in fact, like his siblings, he was born in Camden. -- Graeme Wall This account not read, substitute trains for rail.