1841 census …..

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Wed May 09, 2007 1:01 pm

Maybe this has been covered previously, but will someone tell me what this message is - (Page 0/17) in front of the surname of my person of interest in the 1841 Free Cen?

Lizzie

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Wed May 09, 2007 2:35 pm

Hi Lizzie
Can you maybe give us a little more information e.g. what is the surname? Where is he/she living? age? occupation? Is the person in a household or living on their own? If in a household, who are the others there?

Once we have the correct record we can maybe help you out here.
Best wishes
Lesley

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Wed May 09, 2007 5:17 pm

Hello Lesley,

Same old thing I am afraid, found a Margaret Macrae (gg grandmother)
living in Loggie, Lochbroom age 5. Right age for my Margaret.

Living with Kenneth 75 Crofter

Christie 55

Donald 35

William 25

Catherine 20

Mary 20

Macrae surname for all

No other occupations other than Kenneth.

Unfortunately for me there was not much information in 1841

Very curious to know what this 0/17 means.

Lizzie

kathyc · Post by **kathyc** » Wed May 09, 2007 6:01 pm

I've had a couple of similar notations on my 1841 relatives on freecen. None of them had a 0, which makes me wonder if yours is something different, but with mine it seemed to indicate that that individual was listed on the next page of the census as if they got to the last line of the page before they got to the last member of the family and continued on the next page. Maybe yours is something simliar?

Kathy

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Wed May 09, 2007 6:03 pm

Hi Lizzie

Piece: SCT1841/75 Place: Lochbroom -Ross and Cromarty Enumeration District: 3
Civil Parish: Lochbroom Ecclesiastical Parish, Village or Island: -
Folio: 0 Page: 16
Address: Loggie

Haivng looked at the record on freecen, what it means is that the family are on page 16, (Folio: 0 Page: 16) but Margaret the last in that household is on page 17. (Folio: 0 Page: 17)
Folio numbers appear on references to English census pages, but not on Scots ones, thus the zero.

Best wishes
Lesley

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Thu May 10, 2007 12:36 pm

Thank you Kathy and Lesley,

The answer leads to even more questions, to whom did this child belong. Back to the treadmill!

Lizzie

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Thu May 10, 2007 3:29 pm

Lizzie wrote:Thank you Kathy and Lesley,

The answer leads to even more questions, to whom did this child belong. Back to the treadmill!

Lizzie

The answer being that the '41 census won't help you as it doesn't show relationship within a household

David

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Thu May 10, 2007 8:36 pm

That is what I was getting at David, if only!

Lizzie

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Thu May 10, 2007 9:04 pm

Lizzie wrote:That is what I was getting at David, if only!

Lizzie

I know!!

But some of our readers may not be aware of the "problems" with the 1841 census !

David