Couldn't believe my eyes...!!

[buckaroo]

...when I saw this, from the 1851 census,

Ann Ellis (fruitful wife) 39yrs, Berkshire, Reading St Mary

what do you think the story behind this might have been?

can anyone read what's written verticaly across the image?

[Koromo]

Under Relation to Head of Family, and written vertically, it says:
"Olive branches round the Table"

Under the Condition column also written vertically:
I believe any Daughters are Girls & presume any Sons are Boys.


K.

[Lydart]

Here it is ... someone with better glasses than mine have a go !

[Elleray Girl]

Hehe!!

I think it says "Olive branches around the table" under Relation to Head of Family

"I believe my daughters are girls and presume my sons are boys" - under condition

Ann (snr) is the Household and maternal carer
Mary and Ann appear to be parents housemaids
Henry - much work and little play
John - helps brother and plays with the others
Chs - goes to school whistling as he goes
Thos - stays at home plays with the baby
Edwn - nursed tenderly  ......aaah

Can't read the scored through entry for Anns condition....

Great to see a sense of humour on a census return

Karen

[Koromo]

Can't read the scored through entry for Anns condition....

1851  HO107/1692/219/19

Does it say (with the line above) Married safe enough?

Is the head of the family's occupation Plebeian Gardener & Chartist?

How extraordinary! 

[LizzieW]

I think Henry's entry  reads "much work and little pay".  My guess is that Ann (snr) filled the form in herself.

Liz

[Barbara F]

The final column is interesting too 

Can hear the church bells Talks to herself and when daylight ??

can anyone decipher it some more?

Barbara

[Willow 4873]

Lol think Buckaroo gets the prize for the most imaginative census entry probably most of us have seen

Is it the same handwriting on the rest of the census Buckaroo?

Willow x

[meles]

The writing's the same. Can't find anything similar yet!

meles