An Historic Coincidence

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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

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We live in Warwickshire, but in January 2011 we spent a weekend for the first time at The Old Ship Inn, Brighton, at a backgammon tournament my husband was taking part in. A few weeks afterwards, at home, I was looking up some of my husband's ancestors in old censuses online . I found my husband's great-great grandfather John Garrard E in the 1851 census -as a guest at The Old Ship Inn, Brighton.
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Date submitted:Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:59:01 +0000Coincidence ID:4982