If you are looking at Ancestry, it is because they only have the images at the moment and the data has not been indexed fully.
You can get a full transcription on Findmypast (pay as you go or subscription) and from the official 1911 census website (pay as you go).
Ancestry transcriptions should be available soon, or so they keep telling everyone!
There are ways to do free searches if it's not a particularly common name.
Are you looking for someone in particular - if you give a name/birth year/birth place then perhaps we can point you in the right direction.
Go to the official 1911 census website - http://www.1911census.co.uk
Click on the green search button - takes you to the advanced search page
Enter:
William
Pateman
b 1892 +/- 2
born Shoreditch
click SEARCH
brings up one entry living in the registration district of Hackney
click on SEARCH AGAIN
clear all fields
enter:
last name: Pateman
residential place: HACKNEY
- and under the other members in household section enter
William
Pateman
SEARCH
brings up a list of PATEMANs who could be possibly living with your William. We don't know yet whether this is all one family or not.
As he has a brother Ernest (shown in the 1901 census) repeat the last bit of your search but this time under the other menbers in the household enter Ernest Patemen (instead of William Pateman)
It's a slightly more unusual name so the results may be a bit more accurate.
In fact, they are the same, so I think we can comfortably say this is the full household listing.
We know from the listing on the 1911 census that there were 4 males and 6 females in the household - so enter that.
We know the registration district was Hackney - enter that.
We also know the name is Pateman - enter that.
SEARCH
... NOTHING!! - so something is not adding up!
It may very well be a name mistranscription - so take out the name. 4 males and 6 females in a household in Hackney should be enough to find them!!
When you do that you will see one come up as Mr. Pateiran - which could well be your family, mistranscribed.
That record shows:
Housedule number: 374
Civil parish: St John At Hackney
County/Island: London
Registration district: Hackney
Sub-registration district: South East Hackney
ED, institution, or vessel: 8
Go to the 1911 England Census page - http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2352
On the right enter
County = London
Civil Parish = St John at Hackney
Sub registration district = South East Hackney
ED = 8
.. and then in the top right of the image where you can see image no. 1 of 955, you double the household schedule number which was 374 - so you enter 748. That should take you to approximately where you will find your image. You may need to scroll forwards or back a few pages - in your case the census image is actually on page 744.
It's long winded but feasible if you have a name which is not too common and can find the summary book entry...
. and in case you can't follow it, here's the image
Brilliant Elaine, saying that I thought I had Williams descendents to present day if he had got married in 1907 so I think I have eliminated a red herring
and aint it flipping long winded!!!!! I will be SO glad when it goes to a regular serch, I wish that they would get their fingers out and get on with it!!!!!
Julie They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........
and aint it flipping long winded!!!!! I will be SO glad when it goes to a regular serch, I wish that they would get their fingers out and get on with it!!!!!
Me too and it might mean I can stop FMP membership!
Margaret
Just looking for one of the children listed on the 1911 image and found this
Avis M Pateman
Birth Date: abt 1910
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1916
Age at Death: 6
Registration district: Hackney Inferred County: London
Volume: 1b Page: 532
Just looking for one of the children listed on the 1911 image and found this
Avis M Pateman
Birth Date: abt 1910
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1916
Age at Death: 6
Registration district: Hackney Inferred County: London
Volume: 1b Page: 532
I am just coming up for air after doing searches after seeing that 1911 census!
I did come across Avis dying, but thanks anyway.
And it will be so much easier when ancestry sorts out that census!
It didn't seem to have the same level of gravity on those days I suppose because the childhood diseases we now know are curable/eradicated were still rife in those days so people were expecting some of their children not to survive.
Margaret
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