On 2012/09/04 17:48, [email protected] wrote: > As Carol says, there are many examples of people being enumeraed twice in the censuses. > It usually happened because the householder didn't understand the instructions (remember > we are talking about an age in which many people were still illiterate or only semi-literate). > The householder might put down a child who normally lived at home but at the time was > away, not realising he shouldn't have done. And I have several examples where the householder listed the children who were no longer alive. Makes checking against the BMD index a lot easier :-) Conversely, there are families where the numbers of children that were born and died don't yet correlate with the BMD index. I'm now forced into looking for several GOULD/GOLD/GOOLD relatives from 1860-1880 that I previously knew nothing about but which are implied from the number of children born/living/died in 1911. Of course! This pre-supposes that the parents could remember the correct numbers. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg