General question regarding census'

[**lizzydripping**]

Could skp help with a general question regarding census' and the recording of Army and navy barracks.

Q: How do you find them on the ancestry site. I've just signed for the free trial and have no idea how to access the records for the Army/Navy barracks/ports.

Thank you

Lizzy

[w105uk aka Margi :-)]

i think they are just listed in the area they are.......
are you looking for anywhere in particular?

or who are you looking for..........

perhaps we could help you search

[Springbok]

Hi Margi,


This link was posted on the Forces site

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/rectype/default.aspx?rt=39

Spring

[**lizzydripping**]

Thank you for getting back to me. 

I found the one of the my rellies in the 1891 census based in Horsfield Bristol at the Barracks there.  I know that there are a few other Male rellies who may well have been in the forces and just wanted to know if there is any way to check.

Lizzy

[w105uk aka Margi :-)]

but that link is to search military records and not the census.......

was just offering to help

[Springbok]

Sorry Margi,

I mis-read who had asked the question!  (Senile Moment)

Trouble is I know that there  is a list of Census returns for many of the Barracks but I have lost the link. and can't as yet find it by Googling.

It has been compiled by someone as a Web Site. Will have a look on EOLFH, just  to see if the link was there

Spring

[w105uk aka Margi :-)]

no probs............
i just remember i have found rellies by doing a normal search

and I think that many towns had barracks........
I know Ipswich did and i think they are in the normal listings

[Springbok]

Hi Lizzie,

You will possibly have more success with this link.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jeffery.knaggs/index.html

Go the the Google search at the bottom of the Page and Type Institutions.

Pages of Jeff Knaggs lists will come up. I haven't searched them this time ,but when I used it some years ago, found many 1901 returns from Army Barracks. I was only looking for Chatham and Portsmouth.

Spring