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1:28pm on Tuesday, 4th August, 2015:
Weird
One of my ancestors seems to have been rather coy about her age. Here's how old she said she was in the 10-yearly Census:
1841 14
1851 22
1861 32
1871 38
1881 49
1891 60
She was married in 1850 and seems to have knocked a couple of years off her age there. She was widowed in 1866 and remarried in 1868 and seems to have knocked some more years of there, too. On her 1868 marriage certificate, she gives her age as 34 when actually she was 40 (and would be 41 three months later). Even on her 1891 death certificate, her age is given as 62 instead of the 64 she actually was.
I'm sure these ancestors do this kind of thing deliberately.
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