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Census returns
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Elizabeth2469049 | Report | 5 Dec 2008 21:21 |
Has anyone any evidence or experience of how thorough 19th-century census taking was? I have found nothing about my grandfather's family in the censuses although I have a lot of information to help me on dates and districts - untill somebody put me on to FreeCen when I found one entry in 1891 showing my grandfather as being at school at Brighton College (which I knew was right). This return listed all the staff and pupils. Was it possible for households simply to ignore such returns, toss them in the bin or whatever? I should like to get at the census returns to check details of addresses, confirm ages of parents and siblings etc. |
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MargaretM | Report | 5 Dec 2008 21:26 |
I don't think they were allowed to ignore censuses and toss them in the bin. |
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Peter | Report | 5 Dec 2008 21:29 |
Elizabeth, |
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Elizabeth2469049 | Report | 5 Dec 2008 22:14 |
Thanks - it was in fact a letter in this month's issue of Ancestors criticising Ancestry strongly for transcription errors and praising FreeCen that made me try it. |
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Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) | Report | 5 Dec 2008 23:54 |
I think the occasional person/family might go "missing". Maybe deliberately, maybe accidentally - just going home from a friend's house and missing the enumerator etc. |
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mgnv | Report | 7 Dec 2008 07:25 |
Take an example. Suppose I'm looking in 1871 for who GR describes as: |
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Janet 693215 | Report | 7 Dec 2008 10:58 |
I found my great grandmother in the 1901 by using her sons first name, age + - 1 yr place of birth and mother with first name Selina. Thankfully there were only a few James aged 14 with mother Selina in London. Instead of finding a horrible mistranscription of Tocqueville I found that Selina had remarried and was now a Mitchell and so was James. |
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Battenburg | Report | 7 Dec 2008 11:57 |
I have a missing family in 1901 because the side of the street from 18-42 is missing. |