Genealogy Chat

I was just wondering as I trawl through information on census documents......

When there is an address that has no occupiers is that because the property is empty/derelict or because whoever was living there was out or just didnt want to open the door? Would this be likely to have happened?

Just curious and thinking out loud really.... could account for our people who are missing some years even when we try every different spelling imaginable? Trawled to not much avail and quite tired now. Night all :) R x

I found a letter last night after my posting to the Manchester Guardian regarding non collection of the letter writters census information. The letter basically said that despite it being dropped off a couple of days before the census night, nobody came to collect it. The paper had checked his address and it was missing from where it should have been but he had mysteriously appeared at the end of the batch for that street in what appeared to be an add on after the mans letter had been puiblished in the paper. I think its such a shame that we have these missing years :(

I'm sure some of them did hide.

I have never been able to find my gr grandmother in 1901 - I've tried everything. The most I've found is one of her children staying with grandparents.

If she's not in during 1911 census I'm going to build a time machine, go back there and strangle the woman!!

If they were staying with someone they may not have been recorded because people sometimes didn't realise they had to include everyone who was in the house on that night. Also, when things involve people from authority asking questions people have a tendency to lie...

morning all, i'm having trouble aswell. can't find my
grandmother from the day she was born to the day she got married. I'v had some useful tips off people on here and i'm looking into them.

I too have people missing, but she had recently lost her husband so may not have been too concerned about the census. On the other hand, I have a family registered at two different addresses, both the homes of relatives!

I read in an old report where in a mining community the census records were done in the pub on a Friday night as that was where the head of the house would be after receiving his pay packet! Let´s hope he was sober enough to include ALL the members of his family!

don't mean to hijack your thread but wondered if someone may no the answer to a quick Q.

if marrital status on census is Unmarried is that different to single? as i have many rellies who marry the following year and are down as unmarried when in the previous census it was simply single.

last week was looking for a certain person and on one census he is not there and on the next he is on there twice once visiting grandparents once with family who obviously decided to add him for good measure.

thanks.lee.x

I have some which appear twice..once with parents and once with grandparents and one who was listed under his grandmothers name and she'd just re-married so it took me a couple of years to track him down.

I too have had family members at two addresses. Parents listed all children even though then married and in homes of their own!!

Yes, me too, had one down as unmarr. and I thought she had an illegitimate dau. until I found her marriage cert....... I always have thought that Unmarried and Single were the same.

Single and Unmarried are inter changerable descripitions for an unmarried person in the censuses.

So I am confused by Chica's posting :(
Chica can you let us know what the circumstances were...Thanks

As for appearing in two censues at the same time....I have a 9 yearold boy recorded in Lambeth Surrey with his parents and in Essex with his maternal Grandmother....All confirmed correct by certs!

Chris