Contacts from iphone not syncing to cloud

Hi,
I am able to use iCloud (Very quickly I might add) to sync between my Mac, iPad and iPhone. However, there are some contacts on the iPhone that won't update or sync to either the iPad or Mac. For intance, A.B. Smith's address can be changed from any device and the others will change almost immediately, but John Baker can only be seen on the iPhone.
Why would only some of the contact not sync?
Eagerly,
Andy

anyone?

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