1901 & 1911 Irish Census .....

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:59 pm

Scooter wrote:
DavidWW wrote:
Scooter wrote: cassocks?
No not quite that polite
Definitely 'crumpets' then [

Scots, - the only language in the world in which a double positive means a negative, - Aye!, that'll be right

David

Rab · Post by **Rab** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 5:25 pm

I'm glad to hear the information on the Irish Censuses. I'll have to put a reminder in the calandar to check back in 3 years.

Also good news about the Scottish 1911 census. That was worrying me as I'd completely forgot that the Scottish Census was not held with the England and Wales Census.

In the article "Your Family Tree" magazine (June 2005 issue) by Rod Neep. He said that there are no enumerators books and only household schedules. These are double sides pieces of paper in the householder's own writing. That will be a nightmare to transcribe if that is the case. Does anyone, David?, know if that is the case with the Scottish returns too?

He also said the English returns were in a bad way. He said they are incomplete, pages ripped, pages missing, pages stained and overall smell very bad.

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:16 pm

Rab wrote:....snipped............
In the article "Your Family Tree" magazine (June 2005 issue) by Rod Neep. He said that there are no enumerators books and only household schedules. These are double sides pieces of paper in the householder's own writing. That will be a nightmare to transcribe if that is the case. Does anyone, David?, know if that is the case with the Scottish returns too?

Nope! The Scottish 1911 census involves the same old familiar enumerators books.

Rab wrote:He also said the English returns were in a bad way. He said they are incomplete, pages ripped, pages missing, pages stained and overall smell very bad.

....and that TNA staff could tell where they were in the archives from the smell.... but I wonder how he knows?? If it's the same situation as in England, then there is one one or at most less than a handful people who are allowed access as these records are closed. At GROS there was only one person allowed to look at them to check their condition, and he wasn't even the Registrar General. Now that this one person has moved back to NAS, I don't even know is there is anyone at GROS who can access the 1911 records.

I can only repeat what I wrote above ....... I understand from "official" sources, - i.e. a good mate at GROS spoke to his mate in TNA , - that what's been written in various genmags about the state of the English/Welsh/Isle of Man etc. census is a load of b******s

David

Rab · Post by **Rab** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:20 pm

Cheers- that's good news David on both counts.

I'm looking forward to the Scottish 1911 census as it should help plug a few gaps.