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Here's a strange thing I wanted to share with you all. I have found the same person at two different addresses for the census of 1871. My ancestor was living with her parents on one sheet yet with her grandparents on another. The houses were only streets apart so I am assuming that she either ran home or ran to her grandparents whilst the people taking the census moved from street to street!

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This is surprisingly not all that unusual. Whenever this gets mentioned on forums or mailing lists various people usually reply that they have similar examples.

I suspect what happened is that your ancestor lived with her parents and so her parents naturally listed her as being someone who lived with them. However, she may have been staying over with her grandparents on the night of the census and they correctly listed her as being present on the night in question. So if this is what happened, really her parents were wrong to list her but it is understandable that they would.

I also have my Great Grandfather in two places.Once with his parents and once with his uncle which is where he was actually living and working I believe.[smile]

I have one as well, my husband's GGgrandfather is listed in barracks and with his father and with a surname like Taubman I can be sure its the same person.

I have a whole family that appear twice in 1881. The details are identical in each case. One is in Denmark street and the other in Copenhagen street, I assume that the streets are very close together and possibly one enumerator strayed onto another's area.
Derek.

I've just found someone in 3 census records for 1881. Try as I might I can't dismiss them, there are so many cross references and as you know it's like a house of cards - start dismissing one and the others fall across the years.
It appears she lived with her husband (as you do [grin]) and also helped out in her son's and daughter's households.

Mark