1911 census

[O1dgobbo]

Hi

It's probably not worth buying the transcript (10 credits) for somebody listed as in an institution: the list only shows

NAME
AGE
SEX
RELATIONSHIP (inmate, patient or whatever)

You do not get any place of birth information but this can be seen on the "original page" for a cost of 30 credits.

The Institution address may be missing from the "original page" and the name is missing from the transcript for at least one of the institutions I have stumbled across (All a bit annoying after I had effectively wasted 40 credits).

All the best

Gobbo

[Willow 4873]

So far I have only found two out of four grandparents and one of those is mistranscribed. The one I really wanted to find my grandmother Lily Roberts is one that doesnt come up (she was an orphan by then so I wanted to see who she was living with) and my grandfather William Hilton doesnt either (I want to check his brothers to see if there is an elusive Mark and Luke)

It gobbles credits to quick for my liking. I think most of mine I will be hanging on to until it comes on one of the subscription sites - I've lived this long without knowing so another year or so will not make much difference

Willow x

[Jax49]

I couldn't find my lovely grandmother at first and was very disappointed, but as I have time off work I tried different spellings and yes it was mistranscribed. Rimmer was tanscribed as Rummer as this has happened before I wasn't surprised, it is worth plugging away.

So far 3 of the 5 I have purchased have transcription errors, but they have been worth getting.

Sad to see how many children died, very moving.

Jacqui

[linnet27]

I still haven't found my grandma, but did find her parents with younger children.  Decided to buy the full page to confirm the total number of children born.  I thought there were about 13 and at least 2 deaths.  Sadly, the page shows 10 born and 10 living and they are the ones listed.  It doesn't always work!!

Lynne

[coombs]

Hi

I have found many instances where children of my ancestors have died and whereas before I never knew about these so I will follow these up.

Ben

[LizzieW]

The Institution address may be missing from the "original page"

The address was shown at the bottom of the page for my g.uncle who was in army barracks in Aldershot.  I suppose that perhaps his name was on the last page of the census so if he'd been on an earlier page no address would show.  Also in his case the transcription is not available, doubt it would show his signature though.  Poor man was dead before the 1921 census, killed in WWI in1917 in France.  Parents dead by the time he was 8, put in an orphanage until 14, joined the Army at 14, dead at 24.

Lizzie

[Sloe Gin]

Just a thought.

Are any asylums included?  Since they are not yet allowed to disclose the details in the last column ("lunatic, imbecile, feeble-minded" etc), have they held back any actual institutions of this type?  Because it would be implicit that an inmate of such an institution .... you see where I'm going with this.

However there's no reason why details of officials and staff of such institutions can't be made available, is there? 

[LizzieW]

The asylum one of my g.uncles was in is listed, as is his name.  The address is given at the bottom of the page and starts     "County Lunatic Asylum".  He is shown as a patient.

Lizzie

Modified.
ps.  So if anyone thinks their ancestor was in an asylum in the Manchester area in 1911 and their surname starts with the letters Do to Mc, I might be able to help as I can still view the page I paid for, and in any case I printed it off.

[peterbmillzz]

I bet I am the last one to find this out...................If you click (for example) on the DISTRICT title it sorts the things into A~Z, likewise with YEAR OF BIRTH etc.

Dumb old Hector............

Peter