Pages: [1]

Author Topic: census records usa  (Read 786 times)

Offline tracyc

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 78
    • View Profile
census records usa
« on: Sunday 29 October 06 23:12 GMT (UK) »
Hi Everyone

Just a silly question really. If someone was supposed to be living in a nunnery ( a child ) what would they be down as in the 1910 us census. Would it be an inmate, boarder, lodger or what? Does someone out there know. or experienced this on their own trees.

Very confusing, and very frustraiting.

Thanks Tracy :) :)   
Liverpool-Cope, Corlett, Daniel(s), Ennis, Odger,Shuttleworth, Pennington.
Ireland- Caffery, Doyle
Wales- Griffiths

Offline nutkin

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,175
  • My reason for digging! Two nutkins!
    • View Profile
Re: census records usa
« Reply #1 on: Monday 30 October 06 00:02 GMT (UK) »
I think it depends on the enumerator.  I have seen some as nun for occupation or convent sister or just a boarder.
George William Burke.. my missing link!! son of Wm Burke & Mary Jane Stone/Morris
Shields & Milner- Patrington  & Bilton, Yorkshire<br />Nixon & Bowers - Appleby, Broughton & Messingham, Lincolnshire<br />Hancock &Tyson- Tetford, Skendleby & Spilsby, Lincolnshire<br />Cochrane- Darvel, Loudon, Ayrshire<br />Yuill, Hardie- Paisley, Renfrewshire<br />Kennedy, Gardener & Clelland- Glasgow, Lanarkshire & Paisley, Renfrewshire<br /><br />Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchive

Offline tracyc

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 78
    • View Profile
Re: census records usa
« Reply #2 on: Friday 03 November 06 21:17 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for the info nutkin  :) :)
Liverpool-Cope, Corlett, Daniel(s), Ennis, Odger,Shuttleworth, Pennington.
Ireland- Caffery, Doyle
Wales- Griffiths

Offline Genealiza

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 2,626
    • View Profile
Re: census records usa
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 04 November 06 13:51 GMT (UK) »
I recently came across a family living in "Mooseheart", Batavia, Illinois.  The mother was listed separately from the children and was listed as a "boarder".   The children were listed with all the other children and were listed as "ward".---Genealiza
Pages: [1]