Genealogy Chat

Not just 1841. I've found 1851 Jane Dunt transcribed as Jane Dant and her status is 'mother'. The image actually says 'niece'.

The Daily Mail today, gave the impression that at the touch of the keyboard, all details of your ancestors would appearand give you an insight of how and where they lived. It took me 3 hours to find my Joseph Gibson. He was transcribed as Louth Gibs!

In part of the press releases that were issued it said there were about 40,000 pages that could not be filmed in the normal way but they were able to scan 6% of them so that those records could be used. Not sure if I read it in the paper or the BBC website. I suppose we have to be grateful that they managed to do that and bring us more records that may potentially be useful to us. Claire

Hi Chris Yes, I am also interested in the St Luke area of London as I have evidence that my ggg gran and her mum were in that area in 1841 as well. Ben

Absolutely none of my TIVERS on 1841 at all! G grandfather (an orphaned only child) was living with his uncle & aunt in Hersham, Surrey. What does it say on Ancestry about pieces that are missing? Parish: Walton-upon-Thames Hamlet: Hersham Parish: Weybridge All missing! GRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Sue xx

Yes Tim I have one for St Clement Danes area of Westminster and it looks almost cepia rather than the usual grey image. Im really happy with that one....shame about all the missing ones, still, Im sure if I go through enough different spellings I'll eventually track a few of them down.

A few of the scanned pages I downloaded from the 1841 census have been colour JPEG files, rather than the usual grey scale GIFs. I'm not sure why some are in this format and not others, but the difference is fantastic, especially where the original entries were written in pencil. It's like having a high quality photo of the census book, rather than a mediocre photocopy. The only pages I have in colour are from two Devon parishes, and I'm curious to know how common this is. Has anyone else had the same experience? Thanks - Tim

Must add Missing Kensington and Brompton.....Thank you soooo much Mr Enumerator who either didn't do his job or 'pencilled' his results too feint for anyone to read :(( Chris

And.....one of the few successes I've have found has demoted my veterinary surgeon to a horse keeper!!!!! Adding insult and injury are the words that come to mind!!! Chris Must Get Out More

Yes its a let-down, Cant find my gt gt grandfather at all, but he's on all the other censuses. What does that 100s box mean that you have to fill in? Stella

I have 'lost' 2 families and found one. At least I have solved one problem but created more! That's what comes of having Smith ancestors!

Kate, I think it was most inconsiderate of them not to think of us genealogists when they decided to hold census.!!! I suppose I should be grateful for the few crumbs I have gleaned. my fault really for getting so excited!!! must get a life!!!! Chris

Half the time they have a name listed thats not actually on the page attached?!?

Chris, the idea of the census wasn't to help people in the 21st century to trace their ancestors, it was just to gather statistical information about the population. So in 1841 they must have reckoned they would put people into age groups when gathering the information, instead of when they processed the information later. We should really be grateful that they collected information such as names at all! Kate.

Feeling let down too. Absolutely nothing on one side of my family living in Surrey, Weybridge area. But on the up side, have found more children to another family in Hampshire, well at least I hope it is them as there's not many details on 1841. Trudging on......

Ive got all the important ones missing the bloody Hor******** (frighten to say their name on here now as you all probably feel they are related to you by now), the real intriguing, who is the father of my GGFx3 in Bermondsey - sickening isnt it.

I was looking for a man with a common name (William Davis) but an unusual occ (Stay and Brace Manufacturer). I thought I would find him as I knew roughly where he lived and with that occ he should stand out. There were around a dozen possible men in the right area and at 35 years of age and all with an apparent family, I was amazed that not one man had an occupation listed!!! Grrrrrrr! Luckily I was still able to work mine out, but I had never noticed before how many peoples occs seem to be missing........... Merry

I know how you feel Chris, but you have to remember that it gives a lot more information than the 1831 did, and I don't suppose they expected people like you and me to be reading the pages 165 years later!!! Kath. x

How I agree with you, Chris. A whole village is missing that I needed and other people just refused to be found. All in all, a bit of a letdown.

Having got all worked up about 1841....what a let down!! Lots of my ancestors are in the St Lukes district in London...guess what records are missing. Also why did they round ages down? What was the point? It makes it so much harder to be sure of the right person. I have only found 2 families that are mine...damn and blast. Chris