1911 census..... what's it done for you ?

[suey]

I just enjoy seeing their own writing and mistakes etc.

But he did have lovely writing

I'm finding this quite interesting   

I've only looked at six images so far...two I'd say have definitely been written out by one of the children, four of the six have mistakes either in spellings or misunderstanding of the questions so have rubbings/crossings out.
One family began Mr and Mrs and had to cross it out and another has father down as Mr Sam.

Only one of the six forms has been written in ink and that has a blot on it, another looks as though the baby got hold of the pencil and has scribbled in the middle

A family that I've only just looked at had 12 people between the ages 50 and 28 living in 4 rooms, 6 males 6 females - instructions say count the kitchen as a room - phew bit of a squash.

Suey

[Meaglin]

Hi,
I found my granddad had another brother and sister, so my dad had an uncle and aunt he didn't know about, I did a bit more research and found they had both died, which was sad. I wanted to know more so sent off for their death certificates and discovered my g uncle died in 1928 aged 24 of heart failure and my g aunt died in 1939 aged 21 of TB. My next step is to go along to our local church yard and hopefully find their resting place. Finding these 2 relatives was a suprise as my dad says his father never mentioned them, I hope now they won't be forgotten.

[Gaille]

Well ...........

I found my Nanas dad had a warped ense of humour!
His surname is 'Smith' and he put down pet names for all bar one of his family (luckily for me it was MY nana he gave the right name for!) .......... love to see others try & find them tho cos they 'vanish' without Nanas name to find them!

I found my mysterious gt-grandad, only no additional info to find out who he REALLY is.

A gt-uncle living with a wife no one in the family knew existed until now ..............

My 'pet project' relative alive & working in his own business (now just need to find out why no-one in the family knew of his existance .............

My nanas brother who she always told me 'died young' alive & well at 14 ...........

lol one side of my dads family had a fixation with calling their kids by the same name! ........ in the 'children' of the cencus I have (all with the same surname, different fathers, all living in the same small area!) ....... 2 Anns and 1 Annie, 3 Davids, 2 Elizabeths, 2 Ethels, 3 James, 2 Johns, 4 Margarets (their Grandmas name), and 2 Williams! (bet that was fun at get togethers!) gt-grandma had 11 (living) Children & they all had at least 4 each - that I have found so far! .......



And finaly ................
I found a 71 year old 'Ag-Lab' gt-gt-grandad, still working and I now have him on EVERY cencus from 1841 to 1911 so I am pretty happy! (and he should be on the next one too for 1922)

Gaille

[Gaille]

The 1911 has merely confirmed some of my guesses based on mispelt entries on Free BMD.  On the census my Grandad put down the 'pet' names commonly used for 2 of his children instead of their proper first names so the confusion will carry on in years to come unless my tree is passed down! But he did have lovely writing - puts mine to shame.
Linda

lol yeah I forgot that one .............

Gt-grandma as yet ANOTHER spelling of her name!
I think that takes my total now to about 10 variations of mistranscriptions over her lifetime ........
I suppose given her usual tricks I should be happy she gave her real name, she didnt always as she didnt like it!

Gaille

[suey]

My nanas brother who she always told me 'died young' alive & well at 14 ...........

Gaille - I really don't know what our families meant by 'died young'.  I know I assumed it meant in infancy or perhaps up to age 10.

I have a lad in my tree described as such and he died aged 19 and a young lady in my husbands tree unmarried but pushing 30!

Perhaps they meant that these people simply died before they had the chance to marry and have families of their own 

Suey

[Alan b]

For me the 1911 census has helped turn up something that my father never knew about and that is  5 years before his dad was born his parents had twins (one boy, one girl) but sadly they were both born with some sort of defect and they both died within 3 days of each other just 7 months later in 18989. They were then buried on the same day. It must have been heartbreaking for the parents as it must be sad enough to loose one but to loose them both...so sad. And when she was pregnant with my grandad they must have been worried as to what his health would be once he was born. Happily he turned out fit and well and lived into his 70s.

On my mums side I found another set of twins, this time they were born in India and again they were one from each sex. This time around the male twin didn't see the year out.

If you haven't guessed my family has quite a few sets of twins, my younger (by 3 years) brothers are twins. Our Nan was a twin. her twin sister had twins, it goes on and on....

[scriv2]

For me, it was wonderful to see my grandfather's handwriting, including mistakes, on the form as this is the only thing that we have in his hand.

[Sloe Gin]

My nanas brother who she always told me 'died young' alive & well at 14 ...........

Gaille - I really don't know what our families meant by 'died young'.  I know I assumed it meant in infancy or perhaps up to age 10.

I have a lad in my tree described as such and he died aged 19 and a young lady in my husbands tree unmarried but pushing 30!

  I'm staggered that you don't regard 14, 19 or even "pushing 30" as dying young.  I certainly would.

[Gaille]

My nanas brother who she always told me 'died young' alive & well at 14 ...........

Gaille - I really don't know what our families meant by 'died young'.  I know I assumed it meant in infancy or perhaps up to age 10.

I have a lad in my tree described as such and he died aged 19 and a young lady in my husbands tree unmarried but pushing 30!

  I'm staggered that you don't regard 14, 19 or even "pushing 30" as dying young.  I certainly would.

Sorry, I didn't word it right............ My nana always implied that her eldest brother died as a very young child, she used to talk about her siblings and all she ever said about him was "My brother Charlie died young"
I only had the 1901 cencus to go off until now as I couldnt locate a death cert for him....... (theres a LOT of Charles Smiths in Manchester in the early 1900s!) I wasnt expecting to find him still alive on the 1911 Cencus - so it was a pleasant surprise to find him alive.

Now I have to figure out what happened to him............. WW1 records might be next - but how many Charles Smiths are there in there................

Gaille