Royal Family through the Censuses

[Necromancer]

Well, have you found the marriage yet ?

 

[Mrs Food]

I never know what surnames to use in any of the searches, did they actually have official surnames?? Saxe-Coburg-Gotha etc??? I know they changed at some point to a more english sounding surname but am still struggling to find anything!!

[Necromancer]

Look at the finds above for 1861 - 1881 and you'll see that surnames are not used 

[Tati]

Well, have you found the marriage yet ?

Not me! 

[JAP]

What a giggle 

Nice to see them recorded in censuses just like the Ag Labs etc so many of us own to!

Where was Mrs Alice Keppel (ancestor of Mrs Parker Bowles) in 1901?  And if she (mistress of) was actually with (by then) King Edward at midnight on the census date, would it have shown up on the census anyway!

When more recent censuses become public, what about Violet Trefusis (daughter of Alice) and her lover Vita Sackville-West?  And much later might Prince Charles & Mrs PB show up together!  What a circus - and so many other possibilities.  No doubt things will have been managed very carefully to avoid any such solecisms!  I do recall seeing John Brown in widow Queen Vic's household but just labelled as a servant ...

JAP
PS: People really are strange.  I recall seeing parish registers when finding my own ancestors and being amazed that births/baptisms of "aristos" or people who were regarded as "important" were writ large - very large, sometimes even taking up a whole page!  Doff your caps and tug your forelocks, guys!

[Tati]

Then surely our ag lab/miners were just as careful about where they were staying on census night  

[JAP]

Hi Tati,

Perhaps so 

But would the ag labs really distinguish between where they were staying and where they were recorded    And perhaps that's one reason why we find duplicate appearances 

And perhaps even the 'royals' completing the census schedules were nowhere near as politically aware (or dissembling) as we all are now 
 
As for any of them having any conscious notion that nosy parkers like us would be studying their census returns 150 years plus into the future ...
One wonders whether they would have been delighted or appalled 

Looking forward to some interesting discoveries (I know there have been previous RC threads re famous people on censuses but this one seems to be restricted to 'royals').

JAP

[toni*]

what a huge household in 1881  (cannot view the others, as they are not Free)

[toni*]

Jeane Baptiste -
i thought they had John the Baptist staying with them in 1881 that would have been some feat!

just looking through the household/ maids i wonder how they were 'picked', i geuss the ones from Isle of Wight came from Osborne House back to Windsor Castle and the Scottish ones from Balmoral? did they have Sandringham in those days Marie Downing comes from Norfolk.

Mr (John) Brown is there - of course

it would be interesting to follow a couple of them 

it would also be interesting to do an address search (in 1881 or 1901) for other Royal residences