From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 10:45:09 -0500, Nigel Reed   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 12:32:45 +0200   
   >Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 10:21:49 -0500, Nigel Reed   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 15:38:15 +0200   
   >> >Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> >> I've been researching several families in the Beler registration   
   >> >> district in Derbyshire, mainly on FamilySearch, and haven't been   
   >> >> able to find any of them in the 1871 Census.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Was there something wrong with it in Derbyshire, or is it just   
   >> >> FamilySearch?   
   >> >   
   >> >Is it possible they were not home at the time of the census? They   
   >> >could have been visiting friends or traveling? I've seen this   
   >> >occasionally. Have you tried surrounding areas?   
   >>   
   >> I'd be rather surised if 20 different families were not at home on the   
   >> same night in 1871, yet were at home in 1861 and 1881.   
   >   
   >Maybe they took a family holiday ;) Sorry, but to me "several" doesn't   
   >equate to 20.   
      
   "Several" means more than two Different things -- in other words, in   
   this instance, separate and distinct families living in different   
   households. It is an indeterminat numbe and so doesn't "equate" with   
   any particular value, and the borderline between "several" and "many"   
   is vague and shifting.   
      
   I would be very surprised if "several" families all decided to go on   
   holiday on 2 April 1871.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
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