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Be aware of everyone recorded in a household on census night

There are two examples this month of times where a non-family member recorded in a census return has  you can see the 1901 Harry Harris who turned out to be grandfather. And in ‘Q&A’ on , Dave Annal in an 1861 brick wall.

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