I also have a case where a person was enumerated in the house of her
grandmother, and a month later was enumerated with her father. The
census taking in New Jersey that year must have been slow, because it
took two weeks to get from Phillipsburg to Harmony, in the same county.
Elizabeth C
Jenny M Benson wrote:
Richard Hallford wrote
read an article recently re Census in England that said that the
Census information for the address was the people who NORMALLY stay
their. That could mean that a person could be listed at that address
on the night of the Census, but not actually be there. I was
initially under the impression that it was only those in the house on
the night, but that might not be so. Any thoughts or info?
Whoever wrote that article was incorrect. although they reached the
right conclusion!
The instruction was to record *everyone* who was present in the house
on Census night - family, lodgers, boarders, visitors, etc.
However, that's not to say that that is what always happened. Mistakes
were made. I have at least one instance of a person being enumerated
in two different places and there is no way of telling which house he
was actually in at the time.
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