Ipad contacts - postal addresses repeatedly deleted - bug?

I have a problem with my "contacts" app on my ipad 2. I use this app as an address book (email and postal addresses) for all of my contacts but in the last few months i've noticed that some of my contacts' postal addresses are somehow getting deleted and when i look at thse contacts, an additional email address field has been added and populated with a random number instead (quite often 219 or 369).
Is this a bug and if so, how can i resolve it and/or stop this problem recurring...? It has happened about 3 times now and often to the same contacts!
Thanks in advance for your help!

Sounds like your kids share same icloud account with you.

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