My own great grandparents were in Cumnock in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1871 and 1881 but the 1881 census revealed that children in the 1870s were born in England. This puzzled me a lot and the only way I could make sense of it was to do a timeline. My great grandfather and his father were miners from the Dudley area in Staffordshire.
I even colour coded the timeline for places. You can really see how much they moved about to find work.
James Rolinson (great grandfather)
1852 born in Dudley, Staffordshire
1861 census Darlaston
1871 census Cumnock, Ayrshire
1873 married In Dudley
1874 Alice born Tipton
1877 Jessie born Dudley
1880 Delilah born Cumnock
1881 census Cumnock
1883 James born Rotherham, Yorkshire
1885 Frank born Rotherham
1886 Rachel born and Frank died Rotherham
1890 in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire (father John’s death cert)
1890 Frederick born and died Cambuslang
1891 census in Calderbank, Lanarkshire
1891 Herbert born Calderbank
1892 mother Jane Holmes died Calderbank
1893 Herbert died Calderbank
1894 Clifford born Calderbank
1901 census Jacks Land, Holytown, Lanarkshire
1911 census Stone Row Calderbank
1920 valuation roll Stone Row Calderbank
1925 valuation roll 61 Main St Calderbank
1930 James died 61 Main st Calderbank
1931 widow Emma Ball died Calderbank
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