From: john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr   
      
   On 20/04/2018 17:16, Richard Smith wrote:   
   > On 20/04/18 15:15, john wrote:   
   >> On 20/04/2018 13:14, Richard Smith wrote:   
   >    
   >>> So in this case, I think it's pretty clear that Joseph, Margret and John   
   >>> were children of head of family who was alive but temporarily absent. It   
   >>> is also possible that the head was present but was accidentally omitted   
   >>> from the census, but I don't think this is very likely.   
   >>   
   >> As I pointed out earlier (which J. P. Gilliver snipped), the father most   
   >> probably died in 1899 so was unlikely to be temporarily absent for the   
   >> 1901 census.   
   >    
   > If the father had died, I would guess the head of the family was    
   > probably a mother who was temporarily absent, but I see you also think   
   > the mother had died (in 1885).   
   >    
   > I think it's relatively unlikely that Joseph, Margret and John would    
   > intentionally be described as children of the head of the family if both    
   > their parents were dead.  Maybe such a description might arise if the    
   > census enumerator had misunderstood the situation or if the parent in    
   > question had only just died, but I think that's somewhat unlikely.   
   >    
   > I would consider the 1901 census entry to be circumstantial evidence    
   > that one of the parents was still alive.  Do you have any reason to    
   > think the death registrations you have found are the right people beyond    
   > the fact that their names (and presumably ages) match the census?  Purdy    
   > seems to have been a common enough surname in the area that I can easily    
   > believe one of those death registrations may be for someone else.   
   >    
   > Richard   
   >    
   >    
      
   I'll leave it up to you to find the mother in 1891, 1901, or later, the    
   father in 1901 or later, or different the deaths of either, if you think   
   otherwise.   
      
   I had a quick look and couldn't find them.   
      
   Most of the owners of the 10+ public trees on Ancestry mentioning George   
   Craggs Purdy all seem to have come to a similar conclusion concerning    
   the parents and their deaths (or one of them did and the others copied).   
      
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