The1921 Census has kept us all occupied these last few months and Kim Bull wondered how many people recorded on this census are still alive today? Kim’s mother-in-law, Margaret Bull, was born on 2
April 1921 and is listed on the 1921 Census, in Portsmouth, as a two-month-old baby. She will soon celebrate her 101st birthday and can be seen here proudly holding her very own census return. What a truly delightful lady. I wonder how many of us will get that opportunity ourselves, to hold a census return that we actually appeared on? In April’s edition, I set you the challenge of finding an ancestor who managed to appear in every census from 1841 to 1921, and listed below, are our ‘full-house’ census champions.
Ann Mckenzie’s 2x greatgrandmother Emma Mould was born in 1830 and lived in various locations on the census returns, including Avington (Hampshire), Buckinghamshire, Southampton and Towcester, where she remained for the rest of her life before passing away, aged 90, in 1925. She was certainly a well travelled lady!
John Davies’ great-grandfather William Keyte was born in 1837 in Snowshill, Gloucestershire and spent the early part of his working life as a stonemason, like his father before him. He also worked in a biscuit factory, later on in life. As well as residing at Snowshill, he lived a large part of his life in Bermondsey, South London. William died in 1921 aged 82, a day short of his 83rd birthday, but he did make the 1921 Census.
Janet Pearson’s greatgrandfather’s sister, Sarah Plastow saw one brother emigrate to Canada and another to Australia, but remained at home throughout her life, managing to appear in every census return. Born in Broxbourne in Hertfordshire, she spent her early years residing there, before going into domestic service and eventually moving to
