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Author: | Mel [ Tue Oct 09, 2012 7:39 pm ] |
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Author: | Gloria [ Thu Oct 18, 2012 7:16 pm ] |
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From LFHHS yahoo forum The Original Record <http://theoriginalrecord.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9bb299c75702434cca4f0b1e0&id=474a577d96&e=d373e9e7ab> Source Books *Lost Generations* Heritable surnames started to form in England in the 11th century, and were the norm in most areas by 1400. Patronymic surnames still changed generation by generation in Wales and in the far northwest of England (Cumberland, Westmorland and northernmost Lancashire) through even to as late as the 18th century, but the form of most surnames was set by 1300 in the rest of the country. Nevertheless, many surnames seem to appear in the record much later than 1300. Some, of course, belong to families that migrated to England later than then; but where are the others? Some of the commonest English patronymic names, such as Johnson, are rarely found before the 16th century, as such. Most of the texts being in Latin, the earlier we go the more often Johnson is represented as 'filius Johannis', i.e., John's son, and as such one is always unsure whether the heritable surname Johnson is intended. It is impossible to tell from the record whether Willelmus filius Johannis de Newton was William son of John de Newton, or William Johnson of Newton. In fact the distinction is more in our minds than in actuality: to us the question is which was the name that passed to his descendants - Johnson or Newton - a question which was then still far in the future. Similarly, occupational names will appear in a Latin form - Cocus or Coquinarius for Cook, or in Norman French le Keu. Where a name is shown in its English form, the normal mediaeval English spelling may be rather different from the modern: so Judge appears as Jugge. If the surname of interest derives from a placename, you may expect as you go earlier for it to converge with the mediaeval form of the placename, which may not be instantly recognizable from the modern. This is most vividly shown by the numerous placenames along the river Thames, all of which started with the element 'hythe', but became Chelsea, Lambeth, Putney, Maidenhead. As the placenames mutated, they commonly gave rise to variant surnames that look radically different, such as Goldstraw and Goostrey. So: 1. If the surname is translatable, such as a patronymic, occupation, or common noun or adjective (such as Spring or Black) bear in mind what the Latin (and Norman French) equivalents are. 2. If the surname is an occupation, common noun or adjective, check what the normal orthography was in the Middle Ages. This also applies to parts of a name; -head will appear earlier as -heved or -heued. 3. If the surname is from a placename, find out from the appropriate Place Name Society volume or Ekwall what the earliest forms were. For some further tips about spelling variants, go to www.theoriginalrecord.com/database/search/tips <http://theoriginalrecord.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9bb299c75702434cca4f0b1e0&id=841a24176a&e=d373e9e7ab>. *Surname Source Books* 13,830 Surnames Available www.theoriginalrecord.com/database/ebooks <http://theoriginalrecord.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9bb299c75702434cca4f0b1e0&id=0ddaa88094&e=d373e9e7ab> Collections of entries for individual surnames from historical records from the British Isles and colonies from the 11th to the 20th centuries, hand indexed and extracted by surname, and available as ebook (£75) or DVD (£90). Each ebook contains the full set of descriptions and matching scans for the particular surname from the 10 million and more records hand indexed by Theoriginalrecord.com. All scans are in PDF format. |
Author: | Mel [ Thu Oct 18, 2012 7:25 pm ] |
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Author: | Gloria [ Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:35 pm ] |
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From LFHHS yahoo forum Added this week: 1702 Irish Pensioners of William III's Huguenot Regiments >From an original return in Miscellaneous Bundle 17 of the Civil List books preserved in the Public Record Office, William A. Shaw prepared this abstract, published in 1902. The paper itself was entitled 'Abstract of the Examination of the French Pensioners now on the Civil List of the Establishment of Ireland'. The return was in book form with very wide pages, each folio or spread divided into eight columns. In his abstract the first number is the folio number; (a) is the name and station of the pensioner, either by first commission, second, or incorporated by warrant; (b) allowance on the establishment per diem; (c) where served and how long; (d) what substance and in what it consists; (e) what family they maintain; (f) able or not to serve, and why not; (g) when disbanded. In some cases some of the columns are blank in the original, and are ignored in this abstract. The least informative entries give just surname and rate of pension. Christian names are rarely given. The return is divided into two sections - Galloway's Regiment, and Old Pensioners. The latter include some women, presumably widows. The return was forwarded to the Lords Justices of Ireland as an appendix to a report, dated 29 June 1702, from Charles Dering, Auditor-General of Ireland. In all there were 590 pensioners, 398 being in Galloway's Regiment. Dering provided an analysis of the return, and annotated with an asterisk those 'absent out of the kingdom, dead or otherwised provided for, whose names are in the abstract blank'; with a dagger those 'that have been placed on the establishment by his late Majesty's warrants & have not served'; and with a double dagger those 'that have pensions above their stations markt upon the abstract.' 1796-1798 Board of Stamps Apprenticeship Books: Country Collectors? Returns Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty: the registers of the payments usually give the master's trade, address, and occupation, and the apprentice's name, as well as details of the date and length of the apprenticeship. There are central registers for collections of the stamp duty in London, as well as returns from collectors in the provinces. These collectors generally received duty just from their own county, but sometimes from further afield: in 1770 a change was made to describe many of the collectors according to their county rather than their town, but no change was made to the rule that they might stamp indentures from all the surrounding area, so these labels are deceptive. The indentures themselves can date from a year or two earlier than this return. There are returns from Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Brecknockshire, Bristol, Cambridgeshire, Cardiganshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Denbighshire, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Flintshire, Glamorganshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, East and West Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Monmouthshire, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Scotland, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Westmorland, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and Yorkshire, each of which has been indexed separately. IR 1/68 1833 Subscribers to the Charity Schools of St Andrew Holborn The Charity Schools of St Andrew, Holborn, were supported by private benefactions and subscriptions. This list of the subscribers, for 1833, gives their names and addresses and the amount of their subscription. Apart from a handful of life subscribers, who had paid a substantial lump sum, the payments were annual. The lefthand column shows the year at which their subscriptions commenced. Full names are given in some cases, but often christian names are omitted or indicated only by initials. The addresses include house numbers in many instances. Those who had served the office of Steward are indicated by a dagger. 1833 Subscribers to the Last Lays of Thomas Dibdin The list of patrons and subscribers to 'The Last Lays of the Last of the Three Dibdins: containing Fifty New Songs, Poems, &c. and One Hundred and Fifty Selections from his Published and Unpublished Productions. By T. Dibdin', published in 1833, gives surnames, and usually, but not always, initials: and indicates where more than one copy has been bought. 1840-1849 Prisoners in Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne for Contempt of Court The returns of prisoners imprisoned in Durham County Gaol and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Gaol for contempt of court give full name; when committed; by what authority; cause of committal; and date of discharge. 1917-1918 Durham University Matriculations The matriculation roll for Durham University is arranged college by college, unattached, home students and college of medicine. Full names are given, surname first. Michaelmas term 1917, Epiphany and Easter terms 1918. 1946 Royal Corps of Signals The Army List for October 1946 lists the 4300 officers of the Royal Corps of Signals by rank and seniority (i.e., the date from which their particular rank was to be reckoned). The names are given as surnames and initials. The many temporary commissions bestowing brevet or higher rank are listed in italics, with date, together with any decorations. In front of the surnames three abbreviations may occur: a bold R, meaning released to unemployment; a crossed-swords symbol for meritorious war service; and a pilcrow, for service without pay and allowances. There are separate sections for retired officers temporarily re-employed, the Territorial Army, and Regular Army Emergency Commissions (including African Colonial, Caribbean, Egypt and Palestine forces), Supplementary Reserve Category B. Surname Source Books Collections of entries for individual surnames from historical records from the British Isles and colonies from the 11th to the 20th centuries, hand indexed and extracted by surname, and available as ebook (£75) or DVD (£90). Each ebook contains the full set of descriptions and matching scans for the particular surname from the 10 million and more records hand indexed by Theoriginalrecord.com. All scans are in PDF format. 13,830 Surnames Available www.theoriginalrecord.com/database/ebooks <http://theoriginalrecord.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9bb299c75702434cca4f0b1e0&id=02c36b74c8&e=d373e9e7ab> |
Author: | Mel [ Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:26 pm ] |
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Thanks again Gloria |
Author: | Gloria [ Sat Nov 03, 2012 9:50 am ] |
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From LFHHS yahoo forum *Apprenticeship Secrets* Genealogists are familiar with 18th-century apprenticeship records, but more can be wrung from them than appears at first sight. Any man who appears practising a trade will have learnt it from his father or from an established master. Practising a trade in a town or city was, in theory, the preserve of the freemen of the borough or city. 1. So, the first step if the ancestor in question was trading in a town or city is to check the freedom rolls. Freedom was gained (apart from a few cases of grant or purchase) either by being son of a freeman, or having served an apprenticeship to one. The freedom roll will state the name of the father or master, and as freedom was usually taken up about the age of 21, will also give a rough indication of birthdate. Apprenticeship was commonly for seven years, say from 14 to 21, but occasionally started earlier or later. 2. Charitable or poor-law apprenticeship bonds, if surviving, will be found in the appropriate parish registers. Some towns and cities kept registers of such apprentices, and these registers usually stated date, master's full name, trade, period of service, apprentice's name, his father's name, and abode. 3. All non-charitable apprenticeship indentures became subject to a stamp duty of 6d in the £ (or 12d if registered late, or if the premium was £50 or more). The registers of these indentures survive from 1711 to 1811. They are now in the National Archives in the class IR 1, and are largely covered at www.theoriginalrecord.com. These are particularly attractive to genealogists because the early registers normally give the apprentice's father's name and occupation: but by the 1750s entering those details became more fitful, and by the late 18th-century it was the norm to omit them. There are two parallel series of registers: one for duty paid directly in London, and one for returns from the country collectors. The former series is sometimes called the City Returns, but that may mislead, in that it included not merely London apprentices, but many from all over the country for whom duty happened to be paid on London. A similar trap is the assumption that the collector for a particular county only dealt with apprentices from within that county: a notorious example is Northamptonshire, which also includes most of the returns from Birmingham. An entrepreneurial spirit seems to have reigned within the collectors, who were happy to bring in fees from far afield. 4. The IR 1 registers were essentially a record of cash received, and are set out on facing pages (two matching scans) with the details of master and apprentice on the left, and the date of the apprenticeship indenture, term of years, premium paid, and tax paid, on the right. There are thus two dates recorded, three in the case of the country returns. On the far left is the date that the money was received; on the right-hand page the date of the indenture (recorded as a check that the tax was paid promptly); and in the case of the country returns the date of the collector's warrant, i.e., the date that the money was paid in in London. An important point about this is that, even assuming prompt payment of the stamp duty, the date of the receipt of money in London from the country collectors would often be a year or two later than the date of the apprenticeship indenture. Having said all this, what extra can be gained, even allowing for the happy event that the ancestor's apprenticeship record, better still with the name and abode of his father, has been identified? 1. It is noticeable, looking through the IR 1 returns, that the apprentice's surname is often the same as the master's. In fact, the apprentice's master is often an uncle or cousin. So, in all cases, having found your ancestor's apprenticeship, it is as well to look closely at the master, and discover what you can about him and his family, with an expectation that there may be a link. And a good clue as to whether the master is a relative is if the amount paid for premium for the apprenticeship is rather lower than the going rate for the trade in question. 2. Another phenomenon that occurs in the registers, most obvious in the country returns, is a grouping together of surnames. Where already know that a set of apprentices were brothers, rather than them coming into the registers each a couple of years apart, as they each reached a suitable age, they may be apprenticed within a month or two of one another. The reason for this is the very common practice of wealthy and/or childless uncles and aunts to make provision in their wills of sums of money to be paid in premiums for all their nephews to be put apprentice, as being a sensible way of setting them up in a trade for life. In consequence, shortly after probate has been granted, two or three or more of the nephews appear in the apprenticeship registers, within a few months. Particularly with the country returns, therefore, having found the apprenticeship of your ancestor, it is worthwhile looking very carefully at the names of the apprentices immediately preceding and following. And, of course, having detected such a set, there is then also the originating will to find. And if no apprenticeship can be found for your ancestor, a presumption arises that he learnt his trade from his father: in which case John Johnson wheelwright, is likely to be son of a Mr Johnson wheelwright of the previous generation. When exploring the apprenticeship register indexes, don't forget that you can go to individual decades on the site, for instance www.theoriginalrecord.com/database/search/decade/177 <http://theoriginalrecord.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9bb299c75702434cca4f0b1e0&id=5dbc19f010&e=d373e9e7ab> for the 1770s, and then find an individual collector's return, such as www.theoriginalrecord.com/database/sear ... ?pub=82669 <http://theoriginalrecord.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9bb299c75702434cca4f0b1e0&id=f7a3272596&e=d373e9e7ab> for Masters of Apprentices registered at Aylesbury in 1770, and search it for your surnames of interest. *Surname Source Books* 13,830 Surnames Available www.theoriginalrecord.com/database/ebooks <http://theoriginalrecord.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9bb299c75702434cca4f0b1e0&id=a8451f230e&e=d373e9e7ab> Collections of entries for individual surnames from historical records from the British Isles and colonies from the 11th to the 20th centuries, hand indexed and extracted by surname, and available as ebook (£75) or DVD (£90). Each ebook contains the full set of descriptions and matching scans for the particular surname from the 10 million and more records hand indexed by Theoriginalrecord.com. All scans are in PDF format. |
Author: | Mel [ Sun Nov 04, 2012 10:15 am ] |
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Thanks Gloria |
Author: | Gloria [ Fri Nov 09, 2012 10:05 am ] |
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From LFHHS yahoo forum Added this week: 1597-1601 Salford Portmote The earliest surviving records of the portmote of the borough of the township and manor of Salford in Lancashire were transcribed and edited by J. G. de T. Mandley and published by the Chetham Society in 1902. The court was held after Easter and Michaelmas each year. The record usually starts with a list of jurors, sometimes with a general suit roll. Officers are appointed in the autumn court - borough reeve, constables, miselayers, burleymen, alefounders, scavengers, and overseers for the pump. Where a freeholder had died since the previous court, an inquiry was made as to his or her heir. There are presentments of minor offences, particularly affrays and selling ale contrary to statute. 1756 Europeans at the Siege of Calcutta S. Charge Hill, Officer in Charge of the Records of the Government of India, compiled this comprehensive list of Europeans and others in the English Factories in Bengal at the time of the siege of Calcutta, including those who died in and those who survived from the Black Hole. One of his main sources, the returns of payments made by the government of Bengal to 'European sufferers', is printed as an appendix - September 1759 pages i-iv; October 1759 iv-vi; November 1759 vi-vii; December 1759 vii-viii; February 1760 viii-xii; March 1760 xii-xiv. 1800 Subscribers to Thomas Sanderson's Original Poems Thomas Sanderson's 'Original Poems' was published in Carlisle in 1800. The list of subscribers is arranged geographically: London; Tunbridge; Gloucester; Epsom; Exeter; Nottingham; Northampton; Cambridge; Oxford; Hertford; Carlisle; Penrith; Longtown; Hesket Newmarket; Wigton; Keswick; Durham; Newcastle; Maryport; Dublin; Edinburgh; York; and Liverpool, each including surrounding areas; Madras; and the West Indies. Where more than one copy was ordered, the number is given after the subscriber's name. At the foot of the list is this note: 'The Author cannot take leave of his friends without warmly thanking them for the generous encouragement they have given to the subscription. Their benevolence does them the more honour, as it was called forth in the favour of a Person who cannot make them any better return than mere professions of gratitude.' 1835-1844 Merchant Seamen At this period, the foreign trade of ships plying to and from the British isles involved about 150,000 men on 15,000 ships; and the coasting trade about a quarter as many more. A large proportion of the seamen on these ships were British subjects, and so liable to be pressed for service in the Royal Navy; but there was no general register by which to identify them, so in 1835 parliament passed a Merchant Seamen's Registration Bill. Under this act a large register of British seamen was compiled, based on ships' crew lists gathered in British and Irish ports, and passed up to the registry in London. A parliamentary committee decided that the system devised did not answer the original problem, and the register was abandoned after less than two years: the system was then restarted in this form, with a systematic attempt to attribute the seamen's (ticket) numbers, and to record successive voyages. The register records the number assigned to each man; his name; age; birthplace; quality (S = seaman, &c.); and the name and official number of his ship, with the date of the crew list (usually at the end of a voyage). Most of the men recorded were born in the British Isles, but not all. The system was still very cumbersome, because the names were amassed merely under the first two letters of surname; an attempt was made to separate out namesakes by giving the first instance of a name (a), the second (b), and so on. In this volume the register is restarted from 1840 onwards, with the mariner's previous number (if any) being entered in the column after his birthplace. In the event of it becoming known that a man had died during the course of a voyage, that information is written across the remaining empty columns. This volume (BT 112/11) covers mariners whose surnames start with Ca (and McCa). 1847 Deaths and New Superannuation Allowances: Public Officials The annual return for 1847 of 'Allowances or Compensations granted as Retired Allowances or Superannuations in all Public Offices or Departments' lists new compensation allowances (usually for loss of office under reorganization), superannuation allowances (for retirement), and temporary allowances (for sickness or accident) arising during the year; and the cessation of such allowances by death (or occasionally because the individual has been re-employed, or the allowance has remained unclaimed for six years). The format of the returns varies from department to department, but generally the details of a new allowance give full name or surname and initials, office, age, length of service, affliction, and rate of allowance. The lists of deaths give full name or surname and initials, office, date of death, and the amount paid in the year. Throughout the death returns the column 'annual amount' means 'the amount actually paid out during 1847', rather than the yearly amount of the allowance. 1899 Naturalizations The Home Office issued monthly lists of aliens to whom Certificates of Naturalization or Readmission to British Nationality had been granted by the Secretary of State under the provisions of 33 Vic. cap. 14 and been registered in the Home Office pursuant to the act during each previous month. These notices, from January to December 1899, refer to naturalizations from December 1898 to November 1899. 1931 Imperial Service Medal Awards by king George V of the Imperial Service Medal to officers of the Home Civil Service. The names are arranged alphabetically by surname and christian names, with office or rank in the service. Surname Source Books Collections of entries for individual surnames from historical records from the British Isles and colonies from the 11th to the 20th centuries, hand indexed and extracted by surname, and available as ebook (£75) or DVD (£90). Each ebook contains the full set of descriptions and matching scans for the particular surname from the 10 million and more records hand indexed by Theoriginalrecord.com. All scans are in PDF format. 13,830 Surnames Available www.theoriginalrecord.com/database/ebooks <http://theoriginalrecord.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9bb299c75702434cca4f0b1e0&id=5135ac6eef&e=d373e9e7ab> __._,_.___ |
Author: | Mel [ Fri Nov 09, 2012 2:24 pm ] |
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Thanks Gloria |
Author: | Gloria [ Fri Nov 30, 2012 10:05 pm ] |
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Taken from LFHHS yahoo forum *Census Secrets* The decennial censuses in England and Wales, giving personal returns from 1841 onwards, should be one of the surest routes from tracing ancestry: it is generally acknowledged that coverage was close to universal, so it should be possible to trace an individual back through the 19th century, finding him or her ten years earlier, same name, same birthplace, just ten years younger, and back into his parental family. In theory. In practice there are many pitfalls. Some arise from particular circumstances: 1. In the case of a married woman, unless her maiden name is known, the transition back to a girl in her parents' household is not so simple. 2. In many industrial areas, particularly South Wales and the clothing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire, certain surnames are so common, and the range of christian names used so limited, that full name, age and birthplace are often not unique. Hosts of coal miners called John Williams or Thomas Jones thronged the valleys, almost impossible to distinguish from one another. 3. Then there are the people who were away from home at the time of the census - in the army or navy, sailors, fishermen, prisoners, navvies, paupers in workhouses, and so on. 4. And although a single nuclear family can usually be traced back census by census, the very large slice of the population that did the meanest jobs, servants, casual agricultural labourers, shop assistants in lodgings, are rarely at the same place ten years before, and their identification depends more on judgments as to the rarity of their name. If Solomon Thundercloud is aged 52, born in Shelton, in the 1861 census, there is reasonable certainty that he is the same Solomon Thundercloud, aged 42, born in Shelton, in the 1851 returns. But a John Smith, aged 52, born in London, recorded in 1861, will have several contenders in 1851. So, if tracing back through the census returns is not always so easy, what can be done to solve the problems that arise? And is there more to be gleaned from the census returns than the simple snapshot of a household at gaps of ten years? Until recent years the key earlier census returns - 1851, 1861, 1871 - were largely unindexed, more having been done on 1851 than any other, partly because it was released to the public earlier, but also because it was the earliest return to record relatively precise birthplaces, a chance to get a hook back into the parish register sources for people who were already old in 1851. With the rise of the internet, there was a goldrush to stake out uncharted territory: census indexing was done rapidly, often outsourced to non-native speakers, and inevitably the results are patchy. An independent survey of internet census indexes found up to 40% mistranscriptions. Equally, although many of the original returns are calligraphic in their beauty, others were compiled in execrable scrawls, and would have been hardly decipherable by the writers on the following day. The fact that in many cases occupation names and common placenames were misspelt by the enumerators, and that the same surname can be spelt in two or three ways in the record of a single household, indicates that some enumerators were cavalier about such niceties. If, then, it is unsurprising that you are unable to find a particular individual in a particular return, what can be done about it? There are two initial steps. Firstly, before the rise of the internet large swathes of the returns had been indexed by local family history societies: these indexes have in theory been superseded, but in the event that there was such an index for your area of interest for the missing year, it is as well to search it out. The people that compiled the indexes knew their territory well, knew what surnames were likely, were working at the records conscientiously and diligently, and are much less likely to have made mistakes. The second thing to do leads us to the heart of what can be wrung out of the census records. Whenever researching any person in the past, there are four key elements to consider: family, house, job and religion. Genealogists' cardinal sin is to concentrate on the first, family, to the exclusion of the other facets of life - which explains why so many 'genealogies' are fragments of unrelated pieces of ancestry spatchcocked together like fragments of DNA. House, location, is almost as important as family. When you find someone in a census return, you find them not as a disembodied person, but where they lived, worked, worshipped, and had their friends - some of whom would be their present or future relatives. There, in the census return, you have laid out before you the intimate details of a whole locality. A few decades ago, when the London census returns were virtually unindexed, a major genealogy company had traced a family for a client back to the 1851 census. The client also wanted to trace the maternal line, but all was known was the wife's maiden name, her father's name and occupation, and that she was born in London. It was clearly important to trace her father's family in the 1851 London census, but there was no hint of where he lived: he did not appear in the trade directories. The client was told that the only way would be to work through the whole of the London census, a very expensive undertaking. The client agreed, the search took place, and her father's family was found - living next door to her. This brings home vividly how important it is to make a note of who was living in the neighbouring houses when you have found an ancestor in the census returns. It is a simple thing to do, just a matter of a little bit of diligence, and it often proves invaluable. Secondly, if a family has been found at an address in, say, 1861, and at different addresses in 1851 and 1871, you should always trace the original (1861) address in the 1851 and 1871 returns: again, the rewards from this little bit of diligence are often very great, revealing other parts of the same family at the one address. But to do all this requires a precise understanding of where any address was actually located. Places change, house names change, street names change, and streets are often re-numbered. So the most important part of a census return, after the record of the household of interest, is the cover sheet, the first page of the enumeration book, because that specifies exactly the area covered by the enumerator. It may be as vague, in the countryside, as 'The Township of Newton', or in a town give a whole list of street names and numbers, mentioning various key landmarks such as public houses or churches. With the help of a contemporary map it is then possible to locate precisely not only where the ancestor's house was, but the boundary of the enumeration district. That area, so delineated, is the first to look to for workplace, chapel or church, school, graveyard - all of which may have records relevant to your search. Although the registration districts and sub-districts, being those used by the registrars of births, marriages and deaths, changed little in the 19th century, the enumeration districts, particularly in towns, were redrawn for each census, so where there is difficulty in locating a precise address in the next or preceding census it cannot be assumed that the enumeration district number will be the same: but, again, the cover sheet of the enumeration district books indicate precise boundaries - essential so that no household was omitted, and none counted twice. In Victorian times there was a great surge in the building of Anglican churches in the cities - belatedly, in the face of a population that had been rising rapidly since the 18th century. Rather than create new Anglican parishes, ecclesiastical districts were formed, and the census administration was given the task of allocating population statistics accordingly wherever new ecclesiastical districts had arisen. This had to be done down to street level, and in consequence each enumeration district book cover specifies ecclesiastical district, and if more than one, which streets fell in which district. The same information is usually given on the top of each sheet of the return. These new Victorian churches - many of which have since become redundant - have baptism, marriage and burial registers too late to be duplicated by Bishop's Transcripts, and too late to be covered by most computerized indexes. When they were brand new, spacious edifices they attracted huge congregations, had their own parish magazines and organizations - knowing the ecclesiastical district in which an ancestor lived is a first key to exploring this resource. *Surname Source Books* 13,830 Surnames Available www.theoriginalrecord.com/database/ebooks <http://theoriginalrecord.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9bb299c75702434cca4f0b1e0&id=04ffde5982&e=d373e9e7ab> Collections of entries for individual surnames from historical records from the British Isles and colonies from the 11th to the 20th centuries, hand indexed and extracted by surname, and available as ebook (£75) or DVD (£90). Each ebook contains the full set of descriptions and matching scans for the particular surname from the 10 million and more records hand indexed by Theoriginalrecord.com. All scans are in PDF format. |
Author: | Mel [ Sat Dec 01, 2012 6:42 am ] |
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Thanks Gloria |
Author: | portia [ Sat Dec 01, 2012 11:32 pm ] |
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You've been busy! Quite a useful article and, even when it's not entireley new to you, sometimes it's useful to be reminded. I spent ages last night tracking a family through the censuses - with some difficulty due to variaitions in spelling. When i finally got to 1901, which is where I'd been aiming for all along - there he was next door to his brother |
Author: | Gloria [ Sun Dec 02, 2012 10:04 am ] |
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I sometimes do walks through the census pages to see if I can find other relatives. It's interesting to do especially when you know the area, as in Briercliffe. |
Author: | Mel [ Sun Dec 02, 2012 10:07 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: theoriginalrecord.com |
Quite often find siblings or cousins living side by side. I've also found the odd marriage witness as a neighbour in more recent census (censii?) |
Author: | portia [ Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:06 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: theoriginalrecord.com |
It's great for Briercliffe and my Derbyshire lot. Tedious and then some for those pesky Mancs. |
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