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Offline althomoore

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Irish Census Addresses 1901 , 1911.
« on: Sunday 01 January 17 08:36 GMT (UK) »
How do I find out exactly where a house was located from the 1901 and 1911 Census'?
Moore, Kiernan, O' Sullivan, O' Connor
Other names I know of are:
O' Shea, O' Leary, Guilfoyle (Kilfoyle), Davis, Barrett, O' Neil, McKenna, Donlon, Flanagan, Lynn and McLoughlan

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Re: Census Addresses
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 01 January 17 08:44 GMT (UK) »
What do you mean? There are maps you can look at, or the census summary sheets gives the streets covered by that route.
Shropshire: Bailey, Cadman, Chilton, Garbett, Pritchards
Yorkshire: Chilton, Cogan, Cooper, Farrar, Hammond, Nickless/Nicholls, Silkstone
Ireland: Brannan, Cogan, O'Connor

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Re: Census Addresses
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 01 January 17 09:25 GMT (UK) »
If you look at the addresses around the one you are looking at, clues often pop up?
Names of pubs.
Other streets.

And, as panic has already said, looking at the start of an enumeratopn district will have a page which explains the district, and the route taken by the enumerator.
Look for page 1 ;)
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Re: Census Addresses
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 01 January 17 10:43 GMT (UK) »
It may depend on the locality.  Homes in villages had no sequential numbering system until quite recently, and some probably still don't.  Local postmen usually knew where people lived and didn't need one.  In the small town where I live most addresses on the main street had names (and still do); when they were numbered half of Main Street was renamed High Street, and the numbering started from the centre for each half.  Homes usually appear in order on the census, but that doesn't necessarily offer reference points for today.  A contemporary 12-inch OS map may help, if available.
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Re: Census Addresses
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 01 January 17 10:59 GMT (UK) »
How do I find out exactly where a house was located from the 1901 and 1911 Census'?

Do you mean that you are trying to find an address today of where the house used to be?

Or that you are trying to pinpoint it in the early 1900's on maps of the time?
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Re: Census Addresses
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 01 January 17 11:57 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for the responses everyone I will look into your suggestions.

The reason I asked the question is just to confirm if my family lived in a specific house for longer than we realised. The house is in an area called Droumaclarrig, Glengarriff, Co. Cork. It is a very rural area so I wanted to find out the exact location of the house in the Census.
Moore, Kiernan, O' Sullivan, O' Connor
Other names I know of are:
O' Shea, O' Leary, Guilfoyle (Kilfoyle), Davis, Barrett, O' Neil, McKenna, Donlon, Flanagan, Lynn and McLoughlan

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Re: Census Addresses
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 01 January 17 13:27 GMT (UK) »
It might have been helpful if you had mentioned Ireland?
Or posted this thread on an Ireland board?

There are some Irish RootsChatters who would be better able to deal with a question on the Ireland Census ;)


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Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)

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Re: Irish Census Addresses 1901 , 1911.
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 01 January 17 14:54 GMT (UK) »
If you have an address to work from then you should look through the Valuation Revision books (cover from printed version of Griffith's Valuation until circa 1930).
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Re: Irish Census Addresses 1901 , 1911.
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 01 January 17 16:08 GMT (UK) »
The number on the census is a form number.
In cites and large towns the form number and house number usually match.
In rural areas and small towns there are usually (still) no house numbers.
If your family are in say number 5 in 1901 and number 26 in 1911 it doesn't mean they moved, it more than likely means the enumerators started in different places.
If they were established on a farm it's unlikely they moved, possibly for generations so as aghadowey said the valuation books are probably the best place to pin point the house.