« Reply #22 on: Thursday 26 July 18 19:09 BST (UK) »
Some locations in Eastern and Central Europe "changed hands" so often, that they could have been labelled as being in Germany / Prussia / Poland / Austro-Hungarian-Empire at different times.
In your later Post you say there are the letters oftpw after the name. When you check out Sütterlin Schrift you‘ll see the letters say ostpr (Eastprussia)
So you are most likely looking for the second link
i looked on ancestry but cant find census for kessler osterode
There were very few censuses in Germany / Prussia / Poland / Austro-Hungarian-Empire.
Certainly none of this "every ten years", as in USA, UK, Ireland and some other places
(we don't realise how spoilt we are, until we start looking outside these "regular census" countries )
regards,
Bob
Whilst I was researching my family I found that Napoleon's reign early 1800s set up a regular six monthly "buildings and people count" on 30th June and 31st December After a few decades names of ordinary people started to be listed. You could be lucky and find some. I've attached a copy of part of a people count of Strasse 88, Salzgitter taken on 31st December 1852 when my gt.grandfather's Aunt Charlotte was six years old. The several columns were for quick calculations, e.g. to separate children from adults and males from females and a column for religion.
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie: Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke