'Boarded Entry' Census term? COMPLETED

[DTW]

Can anyone explain the term 'Boarded Entry' or is it just what it says it is?

It occurs too frequently in official records as an address and on one occasion appeared to be the same location that previously had a street name.  I wondered if 'Boarded Entry' might have been slum clearance sites that were ‘squatted’.

Thanks in anticipation.

David

[CaroleW]

A guess - a boarded up house??

[Valda]

Hi

The link in the help guide to English censuses at the top of the London and Middlesex boards gives the guidance given to census enumerators for each census 1841-1901

For uninhabited property it is

'Where you have to insert an uninhabited house, or a house building, do this by writing in the fourth column “1U,” or “1B,” on a distinct line, taking care to omit none which are noted in your memorandum Book. When two or more houses, uninhabited or building, occur together, insert the total number, thus:-“3U,” “2B,” as the case may be.'


Regards

Valda

[DTW]

Hi Valda,

I was aware of your info.  The instanc/es that I refer to are addresses for inhabited/occupied premises.

Thanks anyway,

David

[Valda]

Hi

Can you give a piece number from a particular census to see an actual context?

Regards

Valda

[DTW]

Hi Valda,

I appreciate your help.  Needless to say, now I need to find examples in the censuses I can’t.  Saying that, they are frequent enough, they just don’t happen to have been directly connected to my research (until now) hence no notes. 

In trying to answer your request for a piece number, I Googled the term and found a sort of explanation in a transcript of an Old Bailey Trial, however all it described was an alley.  There were also examples that went way further back than ‘slum clearances’.

My query arose out of Ancestry’s London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 data-set.  On the following page there are two entries for the same family of Chattaway; John and Daniel baptised 19/3/1848.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=1558&iid=31280_194831-00009&fn=Daniel&ln=Chattaway&st=r&ssrc=&pid=2915903
For the 1851C these people are at a ‘proper’ address.

Regards,

David

[Valda]

Hi David

It is an official street name on the census index

http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Place:St_George_In_The_East_Registration_District,_1841_Census_Street_Index_A-B

and

http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?search=boarded+entry&ns0=1&ns100=1&ns101=1&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=Search&fulltext=Search


1841 census HO107 696/2 folio 8
Prusoms Island St George in the East
John Chattaway 24 Carman?
Mary Chattaway 22
Mary Chattaway 2
John Chattaway 4
all born Middlesex

Prusoms Island is the next 'street' on from 'Boarded Entry'


Regards

Valda

[DTW]

Hi again,

This is a great help; all the St. Georges/Stepney mentions seem to be the same one as in the Old Bailey transcript.

My impression was that there were more of the same name elswhere in the area but from your NA search it appears I’m wrong. Am I correct in concluding that the St. Georges/Stepney thing indicates that the location was sited on an Enumerator District border?

How did you find that Prusom’s Island was adjacent, did you look at the census pages?

Many thanks and regards,

David

[Valda]

Hi

I  checked the census folio entry given me for Boarded entry - folios 7 and 8 and the Chattaways were there at the bottom of folio 8.

Boarded Entry is piece number HO107 696 book 2 folios 7-8. Piece 696 goes up to at least book 14

Pieces HO7 691-694 Bethnal Green

Piece HO107 695 St Botolph without Aldgate

Pieces HO107 696-697 St George in the East

Piece HO107 698-700 St John Hackney

Regards

Valda