1901 Census help please.

[mrs griff]

Can anyone tell me what this means on the 1901 census I have this information

Persons  name  he is the head a widower 69  occupation Z. what does the  Z stand for

                             Mrs Griff

[genjen]

Can you give us the person's name and where he was so that we can have a look at the image.

Jen

[mrs griff]

Hello it's
           Charles Hayday  70, Gosset  Street  West Hackney  1901     
             
 Mrs Griff   

[genjen]

Well I don't know what it means but it doesn't look as if it is part of the original writing, so much as something which has been added later.

Hopefully someone else will take a look and have more success than I have had.

Sorry,

Jen

[stanmapstone]

The annotations were made by the census clerks (not supervisors) when extracting data. On the pages of the original books these marks are in coloured inks, crayon or pencil, and can be easily differentiated from the enumerators' returns. On monochrome microfilm these additions are difficult to differentiate.
As far as the GRO was concerned the enumerators' books were merely the raw material for the production of the 'Census Reports.'

Stan

[stanmapstone]

You can see examples of original pages at http://www.rootschat.com/links/02fd/

Stan

[stanmapstone]

In this case for some reason a Z has been annotated to his occupation.

Stan

[mrs griff]

Thanks everyone still not sure what  it means, I thought  it might be  a Z as in  an army reserve  but he must be to old  for that  surely.
             Mrs Griff

[GeoffE]

On the previous page, another old man without a job - James W POOLE - also has a Z.