I'll bet Jim Devitt was the census taker, signing the page on that date. > > Subject: Meaning on Census page > Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 11:33:27 -0700 > From: "Leah Joys" <buffy1@telusplanet.net> > To: <ONDURHAM-D@rootsweb.com> > > While trying to find more information about my husband's grandmother, an > Elizabeth Strong evidently born in Bowmanville April 21, 1868, a person > researching the same families as I am came across in the 1881 Cartwright > Twp. census records, an Elizabeth Strong (correct age) living with a James > Strong, age 60, who could be her grandfather, but what is puzzling is that > in the right -hand column of the page , in the place where the census taker > could list other details of the property, etc, was the date April 13, Jas. > H. Devitt Esq. Has anybody any idea what this might refer to? It's a real > puzzle. > > Leah Joys > Medicine Hat, AB