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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: mrs griff on Monday 26 January 09 18:49 GMT (UK)
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Can anyone tell me what this means on the 1901 census I have this information
Persons name he is the head a widower 69 occupation Z. what does the Z stand for
Mrs Griff
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Can you give us the person's name and where he was so that we can have a look at the image.
Jen
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Hello it's
Charles Hayday 70, Gosset Street West Hackney 1901
Mrs Griff
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Well I don't know what it means but it doesn't look as if it is part of the original writing, so much as something which has been added later.
Hopefully someone else will take a look and have more success than I have had.
Sorry,
Jen
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The annotations were made by the census clerks (not supervisors) when extracting data. On the pages of the original books these marks are in coloured inks, crayon or pencil, and can be easily differentiated from the enumerators' returns. On monochrome microfilm these additions are difficult to differentiate.
As far as the GRO was concerned the enumerators' books were merely the raw material for the production of the 'Census Reports.'
Stan
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You can see examples of original pages at http://www.rootschat.com/links/02fd/
Stan
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In this case for some reason a Z has been annotated to his occupation.
Stan
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Thanks everyone still not sure what it means, I thought it might be a Z as in an army reserve but he must be to old for that surely.
Mrs Griff
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On the previous page, another old man without a job - James W POOLE - also has a Z.
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I thought it might be a Z as in an army reserve but he must be to old for that surely.
The clerk in the census office would have no way of knowing that :) It means something in the extracting of occupations but I don't think that there is anyway of knowing for certain what it means, although Category XXIII in the 1901 Census list of occupations is "Without Specified Occupations or Unoccupied"
Stan