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  • Invalid Z on census?

    Does anyone know what the Z after the word Invalid might indicate? He is listed as paralysed in the final column.

    Gillian
    User page: http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/...ustGillian-117

  • #2
    No idea Gillian. Tried Googling, but all I could find was this post! Not seen any thing like it before.

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    • #3
      I wonder if it's not to do with him being an invalid, but to do with information being invalid?

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      • #4
        I'd also say it has to do with him being an "invalid". Have you checked the other letters in the same handwriting to make sure it is a Z???

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        • #5
          I think.........the information about his occupation is invalid because he is paralysed.....all these invalid invalids are getting me confused....

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          • #6
            Wonder if it's not a Z, but an L with a curly bit at the top.
            Stella passed away December 2014

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            • #7
              Thanks everyone.

              I wondered too if it was in-valid or in -va-lid but I've never come across any other paralysed/blind etc entries with anything similar in the occupation column.

              I'll have a look at a few pages either side to see if I can at least confirm whether it's a Z, a 2, or an L with a curly bit.
              Gillian
              User page: http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/...ustGillian-117

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              • #8
                My guess is that the householder put invalid in the occupation column to explain why he wasn't employed and the enumerator then added the code letter Z or 2 or L or whatever when he was counting up his returns for the various employment categories.
                Judith passed away in October 2018

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                • #9
                  Thanks Judith - that sounds a likely explanation.
                  Gillian
                  User page: http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/...ustGillian-117

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                  • #10
                    Looking at the 42 on the left I would say that the Zwas a 2 and not a Z?

                    Janet

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                    • #11
                      Probably a long shot, but when people left the army they were sometimes put onto 'z' class reserves. Perhaps he was invalided out of active service and placed on reserves list..though doubt whether they'd have someone unfit for service on the reserves. Can't think of another explanation though.

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                      • #12
                        Thanks Janet and Richard.

                        I don't think there is a suitable gap where he might have been in the army.

                        He was a miner in 1891 so I thought there was a fair possibility that he had been paralysed in a work-related accident.

                        I'll keep my eye open for other instances of the word Invalid being qualified by a number or letter in other 1901 census.
                        Gillian
                        User page: http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/...ustGillian-117

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