Source #1766
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Short Title Source #1766 Source ID S1766 Linked to
Individuals: 1MEASON, William
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Notes - farmer.Gives his age as 30. (birth year would be 1811) But the 1841 census was notorious for rounding ages down by 5 years. A person who was 35 would be listed as 30. But that would still leave a birth year of 1807.I notice that William's wife Mary Ann's birth year is always correct, so maybe she was the one who always gave the family's information to the census taker and sometimes made a mistake on William's.