Re: [Gramps-users] Multiple families?

[Craig T. <ctr...@co...>]

At 10:50 AM +0100 9/26/13, paul womack wrote:
>Worse... I've just encountered a scenario where 4 children
>have suddenly (from one census to the next) ended up in a
>different household.
>
>I suspect the original parents have died or become
>totally impoverished.
>
>Again - do I make the children members of the new
>family?

Well, for now, I'd say, record a census event with those 4 children 
present at that address because that seems to be all the solid 
information you have!

Do you have more evidence that there was an ongoing relationship? 
Remember that a census is a point-in-time snapshot.  Perhaps the 
children were staying with neighbours just that one night while their 
parent(s) were away?

By way of example, my G-G-uncle married a woman who already had a 
child--the child's name was Frederick Augustus Anning.  My GG-uncle 
and his wife were listed in 1850 US census including two 'new' 
children but not Fred.  In the next Canadian census, 1851, there is a 
"Fred Treleaven" listed in the return for my GG-uncle's parents and 
apparently enrolled in school.  I believe this would be Fred Anning 
in the house of his step-grandparents*.  By the 1861 Canadian census, 
Fred Anning (did he really use the name "Treleaven" for a time?  Or 
did the 1851 census-taker just assume his last name?) is recorded 
with his mother and step father.  Seems strange that Fred wasn't in 
the same house with his mother on the census nights in 1850 or 1851.

That's about the extent of the information that I have on these 
folks.  No one with first hand knowledge is still alive, obviously, 
so I may never really know.

Craig

*Is that the right term for this relationship?