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Finally finding Jonathan Cade 1861 census entry

posted Wednesday, 22 October 2008

I have finally found Jonathan CADE b1841 in the 1861 census. He is my 2xgreat-grandfather, father of Alice and grandfather of my own maternal grandmother Elizabeth Sarah FAGE. He was baptised in August 1841, so possibly born too late for the 1841 census (although I haven't found his parents in the indices yet either). He is an 11-year old living with his widowed 33-year old mother in Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, in the 1851 census, married Ann(a) HEAD in 1862, and appears in the 1871-1901 censuses. I have now found him on the Cambridgeshire FHS' 1861 index on folio 145B ... so why couldn't I find him on Ancestry?  Because the enumerator transposed his first and surnames, so he appears in the original image scan as Cade Jonathan. And his three younger sisters all inherit the wrong surname of the head of household, Jonathan, because of ditto marks.

So Jonathan CADE is a 20-year old Ag. Lab living at Green End, Gamlingay with sisters Hephzibah (transcribed as Hannah), 18; Emma, 16 (both lace-makers) and Mary (14). I'm so glad to have found them and wouldn't have done so without the local knowledge (presumably) of someone at Cambridgeshire FHS who spotted the transposition.  At least Ancestry's census site allows you to search by folio, so I could home in on the right page.