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Some people falsely added years to their age on the 1911 census in order to qualify for the old-age pension (to which some people over 70 were entitled from January 1st 1909). Black and White Image of an Elderly Woman by Chalmers Butterfield, Via Wikimedia Commons
By Ruth A Symes [A version of this article was first published in Family Tree Magazine in 2018] Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update Civilians celebrating the end of World War One by climbing on a captured German 10cm Kanone 17 field artillery gun exhibited in Waterloo Place, London,... Continue Reading →
Some women described themselves as ‘widows’ on censuses in order that they did not have to explain that their husbands had been imprisoned or transported. James Tissot, A Widow (1868), Via Wikipedia Commons.
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