My ggg Grandfather was a Census Enumerator

[Simon G.]

I've an ancestor who was also a census enumerator.  Benjamin Impey, my 5x great grandfather IIRC...could be 4x, was enumerator for Dry Drayton in Cambs during 1851.

[carol8353]

I was an enumerator in 1981 and 2001.

I have just discovered an ancestor who is described as an Enumerator at the Public Record Office.

So it's all thanks to him(and others like him  ) ,that we can all trace our ancestors.

Carol

[Lemmey]

I was also an enumerator in 1981.  Strange I had forgotton all about that until now.

I hated it.  I was viewed with suspicion by all and sundry and shouted at by a few people.  I remember particularly having to go to one house and he didn't want to fill it in and they sent me back to insist (shaking in my shoes - I was only young!).  In the end after I got another shouting at and told never to darken his doorstep etc they sent a more senior person around.

I never wanted to do it again ........... a more courageous bunch of people than you think enumerators 

[Simon G.]

I think it disgusting people shouting at and being abusive towards enumerators.  They're only doing a job mandated by the government, after all.  Would people should at anyone else for doing their job?

[bungleberry]

I've just realised that I now have 23 pages of my ggg Grandfather's handwriting.  How cool is that?

Picking up this old thread, my g-g-grandfather Samuel Browning GIBBINS was the enumerator for the 1851 for Winstone, GLS. Another GIBBINS did the same job in 1871 and yet another was Relieving Officer and Registrar, so the GIBBINSs must have been fairly big potatoes!

But what I want to confirm is - would the handwriting on the 1851 definitely be my g-g-grandfather's, or might he have subcontracted? Total village population was just 251.

[bungleberry]

I think it disgusting people shouting at and being abusive towards enumerators.  They're only doing a job mandated by the government, after all.  Would people shout at anyone else for doing their job?

Traffic wardens?

[Simon G.]

Traffic wardens?

Traffic wardens can't help it if they're doing something people don't like.  They didn't make up the rules, they're only implementing laws created by politicians.  Fair enough there will always be an occassional few who will abuse their position and give tickets in the most stupid of circumstances (like the case where an ambulcance was given a ticket for being on double-yellow lines), but then we can't go around disliking traffic wardens on the whole just because one or two happen to be convicted idiots.

[bungleberry]

You misunderstand me. I'm not saying that folk should shout at traffic wardens, merely responding to your original query as to whether people would abuse any others for merely doing their jobs.

[kena]

Hi, I have an ancestor who was a parish clerk, would that have involved him filling in the parish registers, things like that please?

Thanks

Anna