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Title: Pirie family on 1861 census
Post by: Nigel Porter on Tuesday 03 September 24 20:43 BST (UK)

Hello,  I am struggling to find the Pirie family in the 1861 census.  James Pirie (b. 1828 - d. 1883) a cooper, married Eleanor Hughes (b. 1830 - d. 1899) on 23rd June 1849 and by the 1861 census they had 5 living children -Eleanor b. 1850, James b. 1852, Matilda b. 1855, Eliza b. 1856 and Alice b. 1861.  I have them on the 1851 census at Ropemakers Fields in Limehouse and in 1871 at 8 Barchester Street, Tower Hamlets, but despite searching I can't find them on the 1861 census.  On the 1858 London Electoral Register they are at Bromley Street, Tower Hamlets, suggesting that the family were in London in 1861.  Can someone find them in 1961?

Title: Re: Pirie family on 1861 census
Post by: mckha489 on Tuesday 03 September 24 20:48 BST (UK)

There are some missing pages for 1861 in the area

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_ser=RG+9&id=C13334&_q=Missing+Middlesex

Title: Re: Pirie family on 1861 census
Post by: Nigel Porter on Tuesday 03 September 24 20:54 BST (UK)

Thanks for the prompt reply and looks the most likely explanation

Title: Re: Pirie family on 1861 census
Post by: CaroleW on Wednesday 04 September 24 01:59 BST (UK)

They have been wrongly transcribed as Price

Piece  301  folio 136   page 17  or use Matilda b 1855 Lambeth Surrey

Title: Re: Pirie family on 1861 census
Post by: Neale1961 on Wednesday 04 September 24 02:07 BST (UK)

This looks like them in 1861
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2ML-PFNZ

Title: Re: Pirie family on 1861 census
Post by: Dundee on Wednesday 04 September 24 04:16 BST (UK)

Quote from: Neale1961 on Wednesday 04 September 24 02:07 BST (UK)

This looks like them in 1861
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2ML-PFNZ

The person who transcribed those birthplaces needs to go to Specsavers.   :P

Title: Re: Pirie family on 1861 census
Post by: rosie17 on Wednesday 04 September 24 06:14 BST (UK)

Quote from: Dundee on Wednesday 04 September 24 04:16 BST (UK)

Quote from: Neale1961 on Wednesday 04 September 24 02:07 BST (UK)

This looks like them in 1861
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2ML-PFNZ

The person who transcribed those birthplaces needs to go to Specsavers.   :P

 ;D ;D ;D
Thought it was only Ancestry that was famous for wrong transcription's  ;)

Rosie

Title: Re: Pirie family on 1861 census
Post by: mckha489 on Wednesday 04 September 24 06:19 BST (UK)

Just saying….  It is very easy to read a word if you know what it is supposed to say.

Title: Re: Pirie family on 1861 census
Post by: Nigel Porter on Wednesday 04 September 24 07:56 BST (UK)

Thanks to you all for your help and I thought I'd tried various combinations of the children, with birth dates, surname variations etc, so not sure why I missed it.