Four Margarets Young?

Question

I found this family among the Unsourced profiles, and spent the last few days sourcing them and sorting them out from the family of another Philip Young.  Everything is consistent, except that every Census record has a different Margaret Young, for a total of four different Margarets.  Can I get some expert eyes on this, for a sanity check?

For additional confusion, both Philips came from the same town in Bavaria, and both married women named Kuhn, but they are definitely two different men. 

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Origami Master, I have come to trust census records less and less as I work on WikiTree, and I’m not talking about transcriptions. Looking at the profile of Philip, I’m thinking there is a possibility that a couple of the Margarets are the same person, and a census takers errors may have made it more difficult to work this out. If you find other records that may help to solve this, I’d be interested in what you dig up.

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Thanks, Pip, good points!  I think there must be at least two.  The simplest explanation would be the second one is daughter Margaret.  The problem (to me) is that her Census entries are so widely scattered in space-time.  Especially the 1860 Margaret, who is ten years too old to be the daughter, and ten years too young to be the first wife.  And of course the 1880 Margaret whose birth date is not too far off the daughter, but she's listed as wife. 

I've not had much luck finding sources for the daughter after 1850.  Maybe because she's right there at home, or maybe because I didn't recognize her in a marriage record without parents' names. 

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Bear in mind,Census takers are listening too people who cannot read

write or spell.At that time.They speak broken English.They have too write

down that info, the persons says.And guess how is is spelled.or even

what they said.

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My old XP operating system,I have no way too send that link.

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OK, thanks, Wayne.  It looks like an Ancestry source?  I don't have access to their international databases, but if that's it maybe I can get the link at the library.

Answer 1

Philip peter Jung age 23, born May 6 1819,married Margaretha Kuhn

June 3 1842,Heiligenmoschel,Preusen,Germany.

If you have exact date birth any of there children,may find birth records.

Lutheran Marriages,1556-1973

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Thanks Wayne!  Do you have a link for that, to add to the profiles?

I found the German birth records for all the children of both Philips, and put them in the children's profiles.