1901 cenus of Ireland

[Andrew James]

the birth was registered in the district of Aughadowey coleraine

[aghadowey]

Then it's Castleroe townland but comes under Aghadowey registration district.

[Andrew James]

Thanks

[clough]

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[aghadowey]

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[wildwind]

Strolling through the Kyles as usual.
A census was not conducted on a date. It would have been all but impossible for the staff involved (local police) to be at every house in their district on a single day. So the idea that a census would be on a sunday carries little weight. Such a visit on a sunday would most likely have offended many in the day on every side of the comunity.   
According to what I am told the local bobby carried the census book around and as he conducted his business the census book aquired the information at the same time. 
Remember all they had was "shanks mare" for transport.
I have a very funny family story involving a visit by the local constable on such an errand and he had the census book carefully wrapped up with him. My father remembers the details being filled into the big book.
Hope this helps a little as I have noted several time assumptions that the census was on a particular date. It may have had to be completed by a certain date but it certainly was not all carried out on a particular day/date.
I was trying to attach a few pic's of a "big book" but mr computer says its too large.
Hope this helps a few folks

[shanew147]

The census forms were to be filled in by the head of the household on census night, and were to include details of all the occupants of the household on that night, Sunday the 31st March, 1901.

The census process involved at least two visits to each house by the enumerator - the first in the weeks preceding the census to leave the household forms with the family, and a second visit sometime after census night to collect the filled out forms, after ensuring the details had been filled out.

The date each household return (Form A) was collected is noted on the corresponding House & Building return - Form B.1.


Shane

[wildwind]

Hello Shane. Sorry if I mislead. I based my information on that supplied to me.
In Portglenone 1936 the local constable visited each houshold with the book and filled in all details. My father and uncle were present and are still alive. Also I am posetion of that actual book/ledger so that census must have had to be over seen by plod for some reason otherwise the visit would not have been required.
The book is signed off as being completed March 1937.
Question for Shane.
There seemed to be some surprise by Aghadowey about a census in 36 or 37 so was there no census around that time conducted in the manner I describe. I may have got the ROI versus NI 36 37 mixed up a bit but as best I am aware what I have is a legitimate census book/ledger.
Again sorry if I presupposed the earlier census to have been conducted in the same manner.

[akanex2]

There seems to be a mix up here between "Household Returns" and "Enumerator's Returns".  The actual "census" is based on the Householder Returns which record those present in a household on census night (a specified date).  Enumerators (usually local police) visited each house in the way Shane describes and compiled their own returns from the information in the household returns (i.e. they separately recorded the information relating to census night in the books such as you have based on the forms collected from each household).  The Household returns were then collected centrally and these are the pages we see in the 1901 and 1911 census website.

1911 was the last all Ireland census and NI has had separate censuses in 1926 (destroyed in WWII), 1937, 1951, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001 and 2011.