I have not ever found a dead person in the census. Could someone else in the family have been recorded as Julia? What other children did the family have, and are they all represented in the 1870 census? One of my biggest confusions was a totally unexpected additional daughter in my g-g-grandparents' family on the 1900 census. BUT, my great-grandmother was missing from the family. Eventually I figured out that she had been enumerated under her first name (little did I, or even her sons, know that the name she went by her whole life was her middle name) AND the enumerator had added a decade to her age (recorded as 13 instead of 3). I looked at a record for a 13-year-old named Anna and it never occurred to me that she was actually a 3-year-old I knew as Molly. Or, since relationship to the head of household isn't recorded in 1870 (I think), could she have been someone else entirely (cousin, friend, boarder, hired help) who was accidentally given the last name of the rest of the family? I've seen that happen at times. Are there any other Julias at all who show up in Sheehan research? On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:31 AM, VLB via <nyc-roots@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Has anyone ever found a dead person in the census? I have a Julia > Sheehan, age 11, in Brooklyn in the 1870 census. Parents William and Ann, > my gt gt grandparents. This appearance is the only record of her existence > and, after years of research, I am wondering if her parents included her as > a child tho she was already dead. > They had a family grave at Calvary and she is not in it. She never > appears in another census, US or NY. Can't find a death record tho except > for a Julia Sheehan, born to William and Ann, in Manhattan on 13 July > 1861. That Julia died 2 August 1861. This could be another family with > same names. My Sheehans were in Manhattan and moved to Brooklyn abt > 1867-68 where they had more children. > I do have other gt gt grandparents who reported all five of their children > in Manhattan in the 1850 census tho four were still in Ireland--came in > 1851--so this idea is not totally unknown. > So has anyone found a dead person in any census? Thanks--Virginia > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYC-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message