1841 census - It's arrived!!

[stonechat]

Found my Booth family was entered by eumerator as Both

I had to search manually through Marple to find Hawk Green to find them

Bob

[Jean McGurn]

Have found some of my families - Harris, Stables even Stackhouse    but so far unable to find the McGurn's apart from one family who may or may not be mine.    So it's looking like they came over to England between 1841 and 1851. Oh well just another brick in the wall. 

Having looked at loads of images I must say that the Transcribers have had a very hard job and I would say all praise to them.   

Jean

[Hackstaple]

Do you think this is the reproduction or the originals that are so faded?  I suppose the transcribers work from reproductions so have the same problems as us?

I understand that the 1841 census was completed in pencil. If that is the case then the images are very good. 

[TracyL]

Incredible they are legible at all then!  The areas of London I have been looking at this morning have all been really clear images - although the writing itself is still quite difficult!

[TaffyBlue]

I was so excited when I read the 1841 census was online.  I dashed over to Ancestry,  and began typing in all the names I could think of.

Not found any of them yet.   

I was hoping to smash down a couple of brick walls.  Ah well.

[Koromo]

I've been looking for a definitive list of parishes that are found in each Hundred. Some of the counties on the GenUKI pages have listed them, but it would be good if the name of the Hundred appeared on their Registration Districts' pages.

It's quite useful, particularly when the families would marry others in close-by villages. Putting in the Hundred name defines the search criteria better, so that you usually end up searching all villages/parishes in a smaller area (the Hundred) rather than the whole of the county ... if you see what I mean!

[annes]

In defence of the quality of scans on the 1841 on Ancestry, I have to say that obviously I have been really lucky because the ones I've viewed have been very clear.

In some cases, they're not even scans of photocopies, but scans of the original enumerator's books (complete with yellowed pages), for example the Suffolk parishes of Carlton Colville, Charsfield and Eyke.

Back off to search some more ...

Anne x

[kerryb]

I have to say I'm having a pretty good morning.  Whoops day, tea break and come and gone!!

So far I have found 90% of those I am looking for.  If I can't find the head of the household I look for a child and I have managed to find them all.

The scans are pretty good I think.

Kerry   

[Comosus]

What I like about this is that you have to use parish records too.  You can find children and their parents but usually you can't find grandparents.  Don't forget about the grandparents - they could still be alive.

I'd also like to say, take note of how the people in the family are arranged and be open minded.  I had one family where the ages were (they thankfully forgot to round them) 41 John, 48 Sarah, 18 Joseph, 21 Martha, 16 William, 12 Elizabeth, 13 John, 6 Sarah, 3 Emma, 8 months Jane.  The ages looked fine so I assumed they were all children.  I wanted to know the mother's maiden name as the marriage wasn't on the IGI.  I ordered the birth cerificate and I got it.  It said the parents were Joseph and Martha.  Once I saw that, I realised why they had not been put in order of their age.  As they don't show the relation to the head of the household in the 1841, you need to take much more notice of how the family is laid out on the image.

Andrew