1861 Census problem

[victoriajoule]

Hi There

I am having problems with the 1861 census and hope someone can help.  I have found a family I am looking for (I think) but they seem to be split over two pages, and for some reason I cannot go back to view the page before....it seems to not exist.  I am hoping someone could shed some light on it for me !!!

Details of one of the people on the page I can view:
Eliza Gregory
b. 1854 Ramsgate
Archive reference    RG09
Piece number    537
Folio number    1
Page number    10

I have looked using both ancestry and findmypast.  Can anyone suggest how else I can find the previous page to see who else is on it ?

Thanks

[LisaRobinson87]

Hi

I had a look and when i clicked on the mothers name it took me to page 30 and there at the bottom of that page i think?

[victoriajoule]

Hiya, I assume you are looking on ancestry ?  I see that they have linked Emma Sutton, but I don't believe she is part of the same family as if you look at the scanned image, I think its a different address (street), she is a dressmaker, and there are gaps in the lines below where they could have continued the family.  The Gregory family are shoe makers including the mother on earlier census, and with the 2 daughters that I can find there are a few servants who are also employed as shoe makers..... I think ancestry have linked it incorrectly :-)

thanks for looking though !

[Mean_genie]

The first few pages of the enumeration district are missing. The page you are looking at is stamped (folio) 1, which means there is nothing to see before that. Normally the first page of names in the first ED of a piece is folio 4, 1-3 being description and summary pages. In this case the all of those and the first few pages are missing, and first surviving page starts mid-way through the Gregory family - bad luck! The family headed by Emma Sutton is the last family in the final ED in RG 9/536. Ancestry have made a mistake in linking the two households in the transcription, they are not connected.

[victoriajoule]

Hi Mean_genie

Thank you for the information which is really useful.....not the answer I was hoping for really lol, but the one I think I was expecting    Luckily I can pick the mother up on later census but it would have been interesting to see who else was there!

[Mean_genie]

Happy I could help (I think!).