Census tourism - a goer?

[hurworth]

Now that I'm following my ancestors around through census records the thought of being on a UK census appeals to me.  I should plan a trip to be there for the next one!


 

[Primrose11]

Yes, why not. Only four years to go. I assume you to be in an ancestral place?

[Milliepede]

Don't quite understand what you mean    we are all on census records although we cannot see ourselves. 

I suppose anyone over 100 can get to see themselves as a baby census!

[aghadowey]

Sounds as though hurworth doesn't normally live in U.K but fancies coming here to be enumerated 

[Andrew Tarr]

I suppose anyone over 100 can get to see themselves as a baby census!

I did manage to find my mother in a census before she died aged 102 in 2006.  It happened to be the Irish census for 1911 which had been released on-line early.

[coombs]

For the 2021 census I may sleep overnight in the old local ruined church (last used 200 years ago) on census night so I am hard to find for my elusive family generations down the line. Cannot beat elusive ancestors so I may as well join them. 

[tillypeg]

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For the 2021 census I may sleep overnight in the old local ruined church (last used 200 years ago) on census night so I am hard to find for my elusive family generations down the line. Cannot beat elusive ancestors so I may as well join them. 

Why not try "champing"?  It is camping in old churches.  The Churches Conservation Trust have 12 old churches which can be "rented" for a night.  From 31 March through to 30 September, £39 (Mon to Thurs) or £49 (Fri to Sun) per adult per night, £19 per child, bring your own sleeping bag or hire bedding set for £25.  All bookings receive free membership to the CCT for a year, worth £42.  There was a feature on BBC local news Look North the other week, featuring my great greats' church old St Stephen's, Fylingdales, North Yorkshire.  Wonder what they would have made of it?  Just think, you could wander around the churchyard in the Spring moonlight, looking at relevant headstones and then curl up in your sleeping bag on a camp bed tucked up next to the font.  The census enumerator wouldn't find you!

http://www.champing.co.uk

[Milliepede]

Sign me up I would love that 

I will have a look at the link thanks for posting it 

[dawnsh]

if the powers that be ever put the 2001 and 2011 censuses online, my mother will be missing as she was visiting my brother in New Zealand.

And she has found herself filling in forms for the new Zealand census too!