You've got it in one I think, Richard,   I found the two HEAPS on the 1861 census. Christopher born Pannal, aged 58, John aged 57, born Navrah? Park. Both living in the Leeds area.   The I.G.I. shows baptisms at the Call Lane Arian Independant or Arian Congregational, Leeds of: Christopher HEAPS     born  7 Nov 1802, bapt 26 Dec 1802, son of John HEAPS and Nanny John Knowles HEAPS born 16 Feb 1804, bapt 16 Apl 1804,  son of John HEAPS and Nanny   I imagine that a search of the newspapers may show if their cover up was discovered but I guess that they got away with it until now!   Maureen   From: Richard Tetley <richard.tetley@virgin.net> To: yorksgen@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, 31 August 2012 3:20 AM Subject: [YORKSGEN] The real reason the pages are missing Hi, I've just checked through the whole section (enumeration district 24) that was done by this enumerator Christopher S Heaps. If you look at the summary pages at the start, it's obvious that he intended to fill in (or had actually used) 16 pages. It looks as though he somehow lost a couple of pages and then altered the totals to match the number of people that do appear on the pages that he actually had left. The evidence for his crime is in his own figures. His undoing was that he wrote in the summary that, for the workhouse, he had enumerated 31 males, 29 females. The actual numbers of people shown on the sheets for the workhouse (pages 15 and 16) are 15 males and 13 females. So he lost 32 people. (and some more from adjacent houses) When the overall totals didn't add up, he just reduced the overall numbers to match the sheets that he had left and fudged the result The crime was signed off by the registrar, John Knowles Heaps (any relation to the enumerator?). Presumably the superintendent registrar didn't look too closely at it either, and just signed off the ED. So, we'll never know who the missing 32 workhouse inmates and/or staff were. Even if the original enumerator's book was still around, I'll bet that the pages are missing from that! regards Richard ..... Ancestors in Yorkshire? http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html; www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org; www.wharfedalefhg.org.uk; www.yorkshireparishregisters.com; www.yorkshireroots.org.uk; ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message