Practices in 1900 for widow's children
My grandmother's mother died in 1901, leaving her husband and maybe 10 children (not sure if 1 or 2 died before her death). The husband appears in the 1901 census as a widower with only 4 of the children. I found a daughter as a servant in another household. But can't find the other 4 who would have been ages 1 through 7. I've looked at other households in the township, but all have sons or daughters (except one which listed grandchild, but last name wasn't father's).
He remarried in 1904ish and appears on the 1911 with 2 children from the first marriage (but not the 2 from the 1901 census) and 4 from the second.
So my question is whether family members who took in some of the children would have listed them as sons and daughters on the census, perhaps so they weren't taken away?
The census listed was Mayo, Connemara, Ballinrobe, Owenbrin, Kilbride, Ross Parish

