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Re: 1911 Census Confusion?
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 24 July 10 14:45 BST (UK) »
If you think that is confusing then imagine  discovering  somone that is on the 1911 UK census (April)  and the 1911 Canadian census (June).
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Kent: Tuffee
Cheshire: Gradwell
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Re: 1911 Census Confusion?
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 24 July 10 16:10 BST (UK) »
Just to establish my nit-picking credentials :), 1911 was not written up by the enumerators in the way that the earlier censuses were; they just completed Enumerators' Summary Books (RG 78) with a single line per address, naming heads of households only. The reason for this was that the number-crunching could now be done by punch-card operators working directly from the household schedules.

The schedules were kept this time because they contained information that was not in the summary books, whereas in earlier years the Enumeration Books duplicated everything that was in the schedules (in theory!), so the schedules were disposed of once the statistics were abstracted.

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Re: 1911 Census Confusion?
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 24 July 10 16:39 BST (UK) »
downside:  well at least you know they arrived safely  ;D

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Re: 1911 Census Confusion?
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 24 July 10 17:16 BST (UK) »
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Just to establish my nit-picking credentials


Wish there were a few more around like you   :D  It's a jolly useful attribute for FH research.

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Re: 1911 Census Confusion?
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 24 July 10 17:32 BST (UK) »
The forms were delivered in the week leading upto census night if some filled them in before hand but then went on a trip it is possible that they could have been in two places at the same time ::)
Middlesex   Burnett  Clark   Potter    Cleary    Avery    Moore Howard Jode Keating
Norfolk    Rudd    Twite    Hudson    Chapman Moore Spink Adams
Suffolk    Horne    Cadge    Sutton    King    Adams
Essex    Cable    Wright                         Cumberland  Forbes
Somerset Clarke (pre 1800)                  Cambridgeshire Muncey Parcell
Devon  Flashman                                   Limerick    Hannigan
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