George Mahon/McMahon 1841 Bristol, England, Grocer any help appreciated

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1851 census:

George Mahon 39 grocer

Catherine wife 32

Children Thomas 13, Charlotte 11, Alfred 8, George 3, Charles 1.

Residence: 89 Holwell Road, Clifton, Bristol
by anonymous G2G6 Pilot (281k points)
This has some transcription errors. I'm looking at the digitized image and his wife is Anne, aged 37, and son James 13.
True. Sorry.
can't help sorry
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Here's a link to the 1841 census entry. His son is James and wife is Anne and the 1-yr old Charlotte and description as a 29 year old grocer proves the identification. They're possibly living in some sort of lodging house. He is transcribed as being born in Ireland - probably correctly - although from the squiggle on the digitized image it could be Scotland.

"England and Wales Census, 1841," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7MZ-7N7 : 30 October 2015), George Mahan, Clifton, Gloucestershire, England; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey


George Mahan M 29-33 Ireland
James Mahan M 3  Gloucestershire
Charlotte Mahan F 1  Gloucestershire
Anne Mahan F 28-32  Gloucestershire

Ignore the 29-33 and 28-32 - they were 29 and 28. In 1841 adult ages were meant to be rounded do the nearest 5. So some clown has programmed the logic that an age of N actually means between N and N+4. This is correct for rounded ages but of course doesn't apply where the enumerator has just given the correct age.

by Matthew Fletcher G2G6 Pilot (133k points)

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