National Archive 1901 Census available on-line 3 June 2010

Hardy · June 02, 2010, 12:05:11 PM

Quote from: Olly on June 02, 2010, 11:56:45 AM
This is great. There are a few issues that would be settled in my family tree that were raised by the 1911 census. My grandfather's father seemed to have two women aged 44 and 43 living with him. He was 46. They are both bearing his surname. There are 16 children listed in the house and three of them are imbeciles with another two lunatics. The 1911 census will show who he was with first. My grandfather told me that when a woman could bear children anymore (doctors say about 44-49 though Madonna was 46 when she had a couple of black ones) men would just lift her younger sister and start again.

They should go flat out now and hold censuses right back til about 1100.

Excellent!

Billys Boots · June 02, 2010, 12:10:22 PM

Ah don't encourage him.

Olly · June 02, 2010, 12:18:19 PM

Is it impossible to tell if one of your ancestors was gay?
Would it have been admitted then?

JUst retired · June 02, 2010, 12:19:17 PM

Olly, which side did you come from?

Olly · June 02, 2010, 12:22:00 PM

I don't understand? I'm a Catholic.

Gaoth Dobhair Abu · June 02, 2010, 01:13:54 PM

Quote from: JUst retired on June 02, 2010, 12:19:17 PM
Olly, which side did you come from?

Quote from: Olly on June 02, 2010, 12:22:00 PM
I don't understand? I'm a Catholic.

Of course he is, sure doesn't he have a green helmet.

ziggysego · June 02, 2010, 03:18:29 PM

Quote from: Shamrock Shore on June 02, 2010, 10:38:49 AM
Perhaps dead relatives you'd never heard of - like an infant there in 1901 that's not there in 1911 for one or perhaps a great great grandparent may be there in 01 not there in 1911

Interests me - obviously doesn't interest everyone.

Definite interest to me too Shamrock. Thanks for posting, as I'll look forward to logging into it tomorrow evening.

ziggysego · June 02, 2010, 03:22:11 PM

Quote from: Gaoth Dobhair Abu on June 02, 2010, 01:13:54 PM
Quote from: JUst retired on June 02, 2010, 12:19:17 PM
Olly, which side did you come from?
Quote from: Olly on June 02, 2010, 12:22:00 PM
I don't understand? I'm a Catholic.

Of course he is, sure doesn't he have a green helmet.

He really gotta go to the Doctors. Sounds like a nasty infection our Olly has there.

ziggysego · June 03, 2010, 08:57:23 AM

Up on the site now. Some interesting research coming up this weekend

A Quinn Martin Production · June 03, 2010, 11:06:25 AM

Quote from: ziggysego on June 03, 2010, 08:57:23 AM
Up on the site now. Some interesting research coming up this weekend

Had a quick look for some ancestors there...take care, the spelling is up the left!

Ulick · June 03, 2010, 11:17:47 AM

Seems to be a fair few "R Cathlick" as well.

Ulick · June 03, 2010, 11:24:20 AM

How come the RIC members didn't have to give their full names? No names for workhouses either.

drici · June 03, 2010, 02:52:10 PM

The day that Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge.

Aerlik · June 04, 2010, 11:52:26 AM

By using the 1911 census I was able to pass on some information to a man in the States who was researching his family. He did a DNA analysis comparison with my brother and it turns out the american and us are related through a man who emigrated to America in 1755 which implies that emigrant's father is a direct ancestor of mine. Unfortunately we don't know who he was.

On the other hand I think I've unearthed a skeleton in the closet.

Main Street · June 04, 2010, 12:43:42 PM

I have discovered that the enumerator, in part of the 1911 Monaghan census, was a half illiterate moron.
Not only did he record my sacred family name with serious spelling mistakes but he records the town as Ballybary and not Ballybay.
It turns out he was a constable in the RIC, stationed in the town barracks, a Cavan farmer's son!
The rational explanation does not help my mood.