1911 census..

[Bill Holland]

I looked up my father today after someone suggested the Beta version of 1911 Census.  I have his birth certificate with mother and father of same last name (presumably married) but he is shown as living with a widow (no relation) her occupation is "nurse" and he is listed as "nurse child CC".
I was told that he was an orphan but am puzzled by the "nurse child CC" term.
Any suggestions please

[jorose]

"nurse child" = "foster child", more or less. I'm not sure what 'CC' means - it might be a reference to the organisation who placed him.

[carol8353]

C C = County Council ?

My great grandad was a bus driver for the LCC....London County Council.

Maybe what they are saying is that it was an official placement,rather than just an agreement between friends or family.

Carol

[Gadget]

early release of London and some Home Counties, Staffs and Wilts and a couple of others - offered as a beta-test by invitation only - till Dec 22nd

Theres a long thread about it currently running 

I've beta tested several bits of software. I registered for the 1911 preview. I got the beta test invitation. NEVER EVER before have I been asked to pay to perform someone's beta testing for them. What's that phrase? Must've thought I came off the top of a Christmas tree! (And no, Gadget, it's not because I'm tight-fisted - it just isn't done.)

Mike

Mike

 I agree with you on this one - see my messages on the main thread last night.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,348330.msg2273964.html#msg2273964



It goes against most of the principles of testing 


Gadget 

[Nick29]

early release of London and some Home Counties, Staffs and Wilts and a couple of others - offered as a beta-test by invitation only - till Dec 22nd

Theres a long thread about it currently running 

I've beta tested several bits of software. I registered for the 1911 preview. I got the beta test invitation. NEVER EVER before have I been asked to pay to perform someone's beta testing for them. What's that phrase? Must've thought I came off the top of a Christmas tree! (And no, Gadget, it's not because I'm tight-fisted - it just isn't done.)

Mike

Mike

 I agree with you on this one - see my messages on the main thread last night.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,348330.msg2273964.html#msg2273964



It goes against most of the principles of testing 


Gadget 

FindMyPast are not asking you to pay to beta test their software.  Register on the site (by invitation only at the mo), and you can test the 1911 census search facility to your heart's content for FREE.  You only have to pay to see the information that the software retrieves, either in the form of a transcription, or in a digital photograph of a page.

Am I to assume that if you built a robot which made brand new Ferrari cars, and you asked me to beta test the robot, that you would allow me to keep the cars that the robot made while I was beta testing ?   

Incidentally, (for Newf), the beta test has been extended beyond Christmas.

[Gadget]

Oh dear - see other thread;

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,348330.0.html

A Ferrari for Christmas 

Happy Christmas, Nick 

[Necromancer]

thats totally laughable ...... unless of course we are talking toy cars ?

you not tracking the 1911 blog ? a lot has happened since the 20th   

[Gadget]

You talking to me or Nick, Newf 

Have a Ferrari 

[kerryb]

I don't know what beta testing you've done in the past apart from Ferrari cars  Nick but that which I've done there has always been an incentive or a reward.  FindMyPast are just taking the proverbial, after all they are a commercial co I suppose. 

Kerry