Censuswhack

[Shropshire Lass]

Just found my first censuswhack!

Husband's great-grandmother Lydia Lewis was a BUCKET BLACKER in the 1891 census.

Only reference on google is on the Warwickshire Ancestors Project -
www.hunimex.net/warwick/freecens/2384.html

Were black buckets a rare, expensive item - or totally out of fashion?

Completely mind-boggled - Monica

[Paul E]

Hi Monica

Excellent find - hard to verify that this is a true Censuswhack as I'm not able to search the 1891 census by occupation, but it seems as though, out of all the bucket workers in Warwickshire your ancestor was the only one blackening them!

And... in Wales in 1891, there is the lonely BUCKET Kingston,  born 1890 in Cardiff.  Now that's a definate Censuswhack, so the points are yours!  (Incidentally, poor Bucket was a girl ).

cheers


Paul

[donna-paul]

jeez yoo lot iz madder than hatters !!!!!!

[suey]

Hi Donna-Paul - you don't have to be mad to play here but it helps if you are.....

Paul I looked at the image and I reckon poor Bucket should really be Bridget, named after her mummy - don't know what her sister, transcribed as Marnanesa Kingston should to be though

[Paul E]

Hi Suey

As we go by the transcribed name, I think you may have just hit upon Censuswhack heaven with the Kingstons...

As well as Marnenesa and Bucket, there's also a Sandi Kingston.

Proving that this particular transcriber didn;t just have it in for the Kingstons, we also have Prulep Spillane!

What a street!

cheers

Paul

[margaret1]

...Just found Ballina Budden from Wiltshire  - 1881 census


margaret

[samesizedfeet]

not strictly a censuswhack - purely a search inspired by the September challenge and the Cockin family

as a result this poor four year old appears on the 1861 census

Thos Joseph Ader Cockin

what he ad it in it doesnt say

[samesizedfeet]

and one more before I do some actual work

 1881 census

William Ince abt 1845  Heskin, Lancashire is the country's only rudeslooker

[Paul E]

 

Well spotted, samesized!  Wonder what he spent his time looking at!

cheers

Paul