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Topic: 1911 Census - how wonderful to research! (Read 923 times)
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Maggie1895
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Yes, it's great with so much more information, and the very real thrill of seeing their own handwriting, but..
spare a thought for those of us whose English and Welsh ancestors are a minority - we have to wait for 2011 for the majority of our records, as the Scottish Government is sticking to the original 100 year rule.
Maggie 1895
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IgorStrav
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Arthur Pay 1915-2002 "handsome bu**er"
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Maggie, that's a blow. I won't say it's not long till 2011, because I know how frustrating it's been waiting for the English 1911 census 
And the other thing is that there are of course lots of rellies where I've had my fingers very well crossed that the 1911 will solve mysteries.........................and of course in many cases it just hasn't. They're not there! Where are they 
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Pay, Kent. Barham, Kent. Cork(e), Kent. Cooley, Kent. Barwell, Rutland/Northants/Greenwich. Cotterill, Derbys. Van Steenhoven, Belgium/East London. Burton, East London. Wade, Greenwich/Brightlingsea, Essex.
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pinot
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Posts: 253
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Moved to Scotland? 
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Maggie1895
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Thanks Pinot! I'ts grey and pouring with rain and you've me me smile!
Maggie 1895
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IgorStrav
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Arthur Pay 1915-2002 "handsome bu**er"
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Those wretches! They move about just to frustrate future researchers
I have been most moved by the years of marriage, number of live births, number of subsequent deaths columns. So, so sad. 
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Pay, Kent. Barham, Kent. Cork(e), Kent. Cooley, Kent. Barwell, Rutland/Northants/Greenwich. Cotterill, Derbys. Van Steenhoven, Belgium/East London. Burton, East London. Wade, Greenwich/Brightlingsea, Essex.
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Maggie1895
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Posts: 140
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IgorStrav,
I agree with that.
I have a friend who is not very well, and one thing I could do for her was to try and build her family tree.
Having discovered her gr.grandparents and their large family I told her I'd get her a copy of their 1911 census, and she was really looking forward to seeing it.
When I got it, there it was. Only their eldest son and youngest daughter (my friend's grandmother) still alive. All the rest had died in childhood. Yes, it wasn't unusual but from our well protected lives, less than a century on, we still hadn't expected to see that.
Maggie 1895
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IgorStrav
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Arthur Pay 1915-2002 "handsome bu**er"
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It's funny, isn't it. I have done most of my research in the 19th century, as the Victorian period is of huge interest to me, and somehow I'm not so involved in the earlier history.
And having followed all my distinctly impoverished ancestors through the 19th century and into the 20th, I had the feeling that this was the start of better times/opportunities for them. Don't know why, really, as my mother had a very poor childhood (as I can see from photographs).
To be brought face to face with the fact that in 1911 there was still extreme poverty, poor health, and the completely commonplace loss of much loved children in early childhood, is very upsetting. How can they have coped? But they did, and took that grief and just worked harder.
We are so lucky. God bless them all, those ancestors, who carried on working for better things so that we all sit in comfortable homes tapping on computers. 
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Pay, Kent. Barham, Kent. Cork(e), Kent. Cooley, Kent. Barwell, Rutland/Northants/Greenwich. Cotterill, Derbys. Van Steenhoven, Belgium/East London. Burton, East London. Wade, Greenwich/Brightlingsea, Essex.
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LizzieW
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But can I find him on the 1911 or a death cert - only one is in Sunderland and I suppose I should get it but I don't believe he could have gone to Sunderland
Anything isi possible.
On the 1881 census, my g.g.uncle said he was a widower and he and his sons were living with his wife's sister and husband in Hull where he'd been for 20 or more years, however, I found his wife's death in 1885 in Middlesborough under a different name  Good job she'd taken her daughter with her, so I could find them on the 1881 census (with the help of a Rootschatter who found a marriage for the daughter in Middlesborough) which clinched Middlesborough as the place she must have been living.
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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) - Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
STANTON - Lincs
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- Bethnal Green
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Mark1973
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Posts: 89
Half Irish and proud!
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There's always mistranscription............ This is true. I found one of my relatives -Philip McGurn - down as Philip W Gurn. Looking at the image Philip had written the small c at the top with a little line under it, which is how I was taught as a child to write it down. However the transcriber obviously thought it was an initial and although looks like the letter M had transcribed it as a W. Jean
The amount of corrections i've added to Ancestry & Find my past they should give me a job, or at least free subscription
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Lavender - Ruislip Middlesex / Mitcham Surrey
Adaway - Burnham Buckinghamshire / Mitcham Surrey
Abrehart - Edmonton Middlesex / Mitcham Surrey
Lindsell - Braintree Essex / Morpeth Durham / Mitcham Surrey
Donohoe & Roche - Graiguecullen, Carlow Ireland
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LizzieW
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FMP used to give credits for advising of wrong transcriptions, I managed to use them up on the 1911 site, as having got a sub, extra credits were of no use to me. Now, they just send an e-mail thanking me and advising that they have altered the wrong entry. Not sure where I would use credits if they started giving them again.
Lizzie
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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) - Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
STANTON - Lincs
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- Bethnal Green
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Rah1980
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Posts: 113
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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I feel like i spend half my life making corrections too, and all you get is an e-mail to say thank you. I got one which said they weren't going to change the info even though they had made a mistake, made me feel like a criminal for suggesting it. Being from Wales i feel on occassions they have barely tried to transcribe it, so it is really difficult to search. Until Ancestry changed their search facilities i found it much easy to search - now they both annoy me. I do love my 1911 census subscription though. Just wish i could clear some of my older brick walls. I do also sympathise with the scottish problem being that my grandfather and all of his relatives are scottish but thanks to a rootschatter have managed to find all great grandparents on 1901
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Flintshire/Denbighshire Parry, Price, Lloyd, Jones, Williams, Roberts, Ellis, Holland and Davies. Mostly from Brynford area. Clark & Duff (Scotland). Find my tree on ancestry rah1980, will help if i can.
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