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Good one Marigold. Love silly jokes.
I think Poppy should go on the Census.
I remember looking through the 1901 census for a relative whilst doing the family tree and came across a household which contained on the night of the Census, William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell and Julius Caesar. That would have been an interesting around the dining table.
Perhaps Lewis Carroll included the White Rabbit, Dormouse and Mad Hatter.
The Royal Family household was good with all the attendant servants, everyone seemed to have an assistant, right down to the page boy of the back stairs who had an assistant as well. There was the Royal lamp lighters and their assistants
 
Well I spent census day thinking that if anybody is trying to trace me in 100 years time I will have disappeared from view....

Your family history story reminds me of one of ours, BYM. OH traced some relatives who sailed to Quebec in the mid 1800s. Later he got a phone call from his sister asking whats all this about our ancestors coming from Tibet! As it happens, there is a memorial plaque to a Portugeuse explorer who 'discovered' Tibet in European terms in 16something I think. He came from a very small mountain town, about 15 miles from us. Back then, it would have been really in the middle of nowhere and hard to get to, a direct road connecting us and there was only built 10 years ago, so the desire to leave, let alone visit somewhere so far away and inaccessible, must have been very powerful.

I love the census, for picture building and social history.
 
That's why we love the old census . All the jobs you see that have long gone, like straw plaiters. They were girls who were offered schooling for a modest fee, and the chance to learn the trade. Reality was they were stuck in rooms plaiting straw endlessly to make Victorian bonnets, and the woman in charge pocketed the money.
OH comes from a family of seafarers on her mums side, so various members would be missing on Census night or very rarely turn up portside in UK somewhere.
Her fathers family were Dutch Jews who changed their name from Van Guelder to Waterman on arriving in UK, the head of the household at one point was described as a scavenger (dustman) he did rise up to become an omnibus driver. Great grandad was a Jewish tailor.
Just a lovely snapshot into life gone by as though they are speaking to you
 
In our family, on both sides, were master tailors, milliners, a lace maker, an artist. I sew, but that's it. All the talent passed me by! Although, one grandmother used to say "there's little talent that diligent practise can't match."
 
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Here are my very cute next door neighbours.
 
The ginger kittens are really greedy. The other two which you can't see very well, have mum's colouring - black with ginger highlights. Mum has a cream splodge on her chin and one front paw is cream and ginger. The two kittens have a vertical line down their faces, black one side and cream the other. Same side for both of them. One dad was definitely a tabby, there was a black tom around as well but I don't know enough about the colour genetics to work out whether there is one dad or two (or more!)
 
We had two black brothers a while back, barn cats. Their mum was a tortoiseshell. Her sister was a tortie as well who had ginger kittens. Nobody knew who Daddy was but it seems a tortie female has the potential to produce kittens of any colour!
 
Torties are always female, and over 98% of gingers are male - although I almost adopted twin ginger females a few years back. But I decided to adopt nearer home.

Torties also have a well deserved reputation for being a bit flighty, and shall we say "assertive "! The first time I took mine to the vet, he took one look, and said "Oh. You've got another tortie. Right. " [emoji23] because my previous one almost took his fingers off on more than one occasion, when he had the effrontery to try looking at her teeth!
Current one has similar attitudes. She's all "If I want snuggles, I will snuggle you! Don't you dare try to snuggle me!"

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dianefairhall said:
She's lovely! We've mainly had male cats, depending on what the rescue had in at the time but I've never had a 'naughty tortie' and would really like one before I'm too old to enjoy it.
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I've always had females and males together. I've an enormous grey tabby tomcat too. A real slob.

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When we had the two black boys, Mungojerrie and Rumpeltezer, we had a wee black kitten turn up. We knew where she came from so asked permission to keep her as the two black boys seemed to like her. WE called her Lucy since a friend had a band called Lucy the Cat. Our present cats are two black and white boys called Freddie and George.
 
LadyA said:
Torties are always female, and over 98% of gingers are male - although I almost adopted twin ginger females a few years back. But I decided to adopt nearer home.
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You learn something every day on this forum. I didn't know torties were always female so it looks like I probably have two females, two males (although either or both could be female, and one that I will definitely have to wait and see!
 
Well you never know, once we can travel a kitten delivery service is a possibility! They won't be ready to leave mum until 12th May at the earliest and preferably a week later.
 
Looks like it's three boys and two girls. Was changing the bedding which means picking them up and one of the ginger kittens looked at me with one eye partly open. I'm SOOOOO excited - they'll keep me going until there are osprey chicks to watch!
 
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