I wonder if he knew?

[Colin Cruddace]

I can't understand why you are blaming the enumerator. He/she only copied the schedules, so the culprit would be whoever completed schedule.

Colin

[LizzieW]

Even so, I doubt a Deputy Registrar would actually copy insults.

[Mart 'n' Al]

I would guess that these days Kate would be trolling people on Facebook or Twitter.

Martin

[LizzieW]

 

[heywood]

Even so, I doubt a Deputy Registrar would actually copy insults.

The other priests in the household were just recorded as such. Strange.

In the example I quoted re Calcraft, I wouldn’t think the enumerator would copy a cartoon hanging figure and write ‘Beware’ but perhaps it was the humour of the time.

[stanmapstone]

I can't understand why you are blaming the enumerator. He/she only copied the schedules, so the culprit would be whoever completed schedule.

Colin

That is not correct there are many examples of remarks in the censuses that have been added by the enumerators.

"Although the instructions issued to the enumerators were very precise there are many instances where enumerators chose to stray from the rules  and made observations or used unconventional terms to complete their returns. Title pages were intended to describe the district the enumerator had to cover but were also used by enumerators to add some comments of their own"
Making use of the Census by Susan Lumas, the National Archives.
Stan

[Flattybasher9]

"In the example I quoted re Calcraft, I wouldn’t think the enumerator would copy a cartoon hanging figure and write ‘Beware’ but perhaps it was the humour of the time"

I thought that William Calcraft's motto was,
 "10 per annum. He who likes to keep people hanging around". 


Malky

[heywood]

It may well have been but he wasn’t very good at his job, I believe, although he was in great demand.  Perhaps that is why there was a warning.

Apologies though and back to the enumerator and census.

[Maiden Stone]

A lodging-house in mid-19thC  Manchester, whose occupants were all Irish had "pig sty" written in address column in census enumerator's book.
Some "low" lodging-house keepers had "& brothel- keeper" as secondary occupation.