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Started by: LEP1950 (746)

The 1881 census has a 16 year old Clara Devine living in Wath on Dearne, Rotherham with her parents James (58) and Mary (55) and six siblings. James was born in Madras, India and Mary was born in Co. Clare, Ireland. Clara was supposedly born in Barnsley. I can't find any record of this yet, but the siblings were all born in various places. Who knows what is accurate. Anyway, I don't think Clara was born in Wigan. There is no trace of a record there or in the National Archives. It wasn't unusual for people to say they were born where they were living even when this wasn't true (I read that in a book on ancestry research).And sometimes the enumerator misunderstood. The children were all born in Wigan and so Clara was born in Wigan, too.

LEP1950

Replied: 28th Sep 2014 at 23:15

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