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  • Is this correct !!!

    Please can someone tell me if this is correct:-


    The enumerator went to each household and took the relevant info. This info was then recorded onto the forms we now research, but by a different person, ie. rough info was taken first then tidied up later???

    Kathlyn

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    Extract from the following website
    British-Genealogy - Censuses

    A Schedule is a piece of paper (a form) that the enumerator left at each household sometime during the week before the census was taken. It was the responsibility of the head of the household to see that the form was filled in, listing the details of the people who resided (slept) in the house at midnight on the Sunday night of the censusMembers of the household who were working a night shift could be included. Each form (Schedule) had a unique identifying number.

    In many cases, the original schdule was filled in by a child rather than by the head of the household. The reason is simple. During the 1800s the children went to school, or Sunday school, and learned to read and write, whereas parents (of the older generation) could often not be able to read and write.

    It is a common myth that a census enumerator knocked on doors and asked who was present, and then wrote down the details, often mis-hearing, or mis-spelling. No. Sure, there may have been isolated examples of that having been done, but this is very rare!

    During the week following census night, the enumerator visited all of the houses, and collected the forms. (The Schedules), and then he collated them, and then wrote them up into his enumerator's book, in schedule number order. The enumerator may have found it difficult to interpret the handwriting on the schedule, and he may have mis-transcribed some details.
    Elaine







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    • #3
      Elaine, thank you, that is just what I was hoping for. This should explain why differing information is recorded.

      Kathlyn

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      • #4
        I wonder how many people were put on the forms that were not there that night ???

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        • #5
          And how many were there and not put on?
          ~ with love from Little Nell~
          Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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          • #6
            that explains why you sometimes come across the same person at two differnet addresses too!
            Barbara

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