As I understand it, not formally but by deduction after a reading a number of ancestors' census entries, British subject was someone born abroad, but carrying British nationality usually by parentage (eg: Both great-grandparents born in UK, their children born in Paris labelled as British subjects). In later censuses I have people labelled "Naturalised British subject" and "Resident, born Italy" I suspect your male "British subject" may have been born abroad of at least one British parent - probably the father, also the children who then inherited his nationality and that his wife, born in Denmark had not, at that time, made any formal applicaton to become British. Jean Wood > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:44:20 +0200 > Subject: [NTT] Notation in 1841 & 51 census? > > Hej > Can someone explain to me why that in the "Born in" column in the 1841 1nd > 1851 censuses it says "British subject" for the husband and children while > for the wife it gives her place and country of birth (Denmark)? > > Best wishes > Graham Freeman > Göteborg, Sweden > > > > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message