1911 census Beta on Find My Past

[Gadget]

Hi Andrew

I don't think it will unless she's with her husband. The question asked is 'How many children of this marriage - alive/dead'. See Tati's message very early on.

Gadget

[avm228]

Hi Andrew

I don't think it will unless she's with her husband. The question asked is 'How many children of this marriage - alive/dead'. See Tati's message very early on.

Gadget

I thought married women had to answer this question whether hubby was enumerated with them or not. "State, for each Married Woman enumerated on this Schedule, the number of... Children born alive to present Marriage [etc.]"

So far as I know the institution schedules asked the same questions.

Anna

[jc26red]

well I won't be able to join in the fun till Durham and Wales are on there...  

happy hunting

[les_looking]

just had an email to say 1911 census released tomorrow

Counties available at launch:

Bedfordshire
Berkshire
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire
Cheshire
Cornwall
Derbyshire
Devonshire
Dorsetshire
Essex
Gloucestershire
Hampshire
Herefordshire
Hertfordshire
Huntingdonshire
Kent
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
London
Middlesex
Norfolk
Northamptonshire
Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire
Rutlandshire
Shropshire
Somersetshire
Staffordshire
Suffolk
Surrey
Sussex
Warwickshire
Wiltshire
Worcestershire
Yorkshire West Riding

Counties not available for launch but coming soon:

England:
Durham
Cumberland
Northumberland
Westmorland
Yorkshire Ð East Riding and North Riding

Wales:
Anglesey
Brecknockshire
Carnarvonshire
Cardiganshire
Carmarthenshire
Denbighshire
Flintshire
Glamorgan
Merionethshire
Montgomeryshire
Monmouthshire
Pembrokeshire
Radnorshire

Other:
Isle of Man
Channel Islands
Royal Navy
Overseas Military Establishment

[Paul Caswell]

I have found my GGG Grandmother on the census and she is listed as in an Institution (preumably workhouse), rather than a Household.
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Andrew

I wonder how many people were in the institution. You may have to pay for a lot of pages. In earlier censuses institutions were listed in alphabetical order.

Paul

[Gadget]

Hi Andrew

I don't think it will unless she's with her husband. The question asked is 'How many children of this marriage - alive/dead'. See Tati's message very early on.

Gadget

I thought married women had to answer this question whether hubby was enumerated with them or not. "State, for each Married Woman enumerated on this Schedule, the number of... Children born alive to present Marriage [etc.]"

So far as I know the institution schedules asked the same questions.

Anna

Not so - I've got two who are not with husbands (staying with relatives) and no fertility info given. it's 'of the present marriage' and has been interpreted differently.


Gadget

[coombs]

Hi

I have found a few ancestors who say that some of their children died. New leads to trace.

By 1911 an Essex couple had been married for 45 years according to the census which tallies with their 1866 marriage.

Ben

[Mum44]

Not so - I've got two who are not with husbands and no fertility info given. it's 'of the present marriage' and has been interpreted differently.

Gadget

I think you're right, Gadget - largely down to interpetation;  I've found two widowed great aunts, both of whom have entered their children, alive and died.

[avm228]

Not so - I've got two who are not with husbands and no fertility info given. it's 'of the present marriage' and has been interpreted differently.

Gadget

What a pity!  Fortunately my g-grandmother, whose husband was away at sea as a naval officer, filled it all in (it was still her "present marriage" after all...).  

For that matter one of my 3x g-grandmothers, long-widowed, ignored the instructions and filled the fertility info in, helpfully specified that all her nine children had been sons, and inserted her own date of birth in addition to her birthplace for good measure.  Thanks, Harriet

Anna