Fancy these as your family?

[Phoenix]

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/CensusSh...45&l=2&s=0&a=0

I bet I wouldn't be able to find them in any other census.

[Uncle John]

Sorry, not subscribed to FMP.

[Janet]

Aaargh, should have paid attention to what UJ was saying. I'm subbed to FMP.com not FMP.co.uk. Interesting census, though, Phoenix, even if it did gobble up some of my remaining free credits faster than a speeding bullet! Not to worry; they're expiring pretty soon anyway and I've been looking for useful ways to spend them. This was certainly a colorful eyeful.

Anyone who's still hoarding your precious credits, however, beware! Don't click on the link!

[Phoenix]

Things are so much easier to find on FMP. I wasn't at all sure I'd even find them in 1911 on Ancestry.

COOPER, Thomas Head Married M 38 Horse Dealer At Sea
COOPER, Hannah Wife Married19 years F 34 N K
COOPER, Hugh Son Son M 19 Assists Father

Hugh's birthplace given as:
Bellicombe Sapica Resident (& no, it doesn't say British Subject as I originally assumed)

I can't think I'll ever find out, but I suspect at least seven lies there.

[Merry]

Sapica = S Africa!

[Phoenix]

So.... *draws deep breath* they could have been anywhere on the planet in 1901!

Possibly in Bellicombe?

[kiterunner]

Is the transcription from the 1911, Phoenix?

[Phoenix]

Yes. Hannah claims she would have been fifteen when she married (or possibly fourteen) because of course they got married before Hugh was born.