1851 Manchester (Chorlton) census lookup - MASON

[dkpeddie]

Hi, everyone,

Could some kind soul please help me out with Thomas Mason et al. (details below)?  I'd be grateful for the full line for each member, if it's not too much trouble:  relation to head, marital condition, age, occupation, birthplace, and infirmity.  Thanks so much!

1851 Census
Chorlton RD, Ardwick
47 Union St

Names:  Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Ann Gould, Mary, Thomas, James, and George Henry MASON.  Also  Susan WILLIAMSON (maybe a visitor).

--Daniel

[Gaille]

Hi, everyone,

Could some kind soul please help me out with Thomas Mason et al. (details below)?  I'd be grateful for the full line for each member, if it's not too much trouble:  relation to head, marital condition, age, occupation, birthplace, and infirmity.  Thanks so much!

1851 Census
Chorlton RD, Ardwick
47 Union St

Names:  Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Ann Gould, Mary, Thomas, James, and George Henry MASON.  Also  Susan WILLIAMSON (maybe a visitor).

--Daniel

Hi Daniel,

A lot of the 1851 cencus for manchester was destroyed, so its rather patchy whats availible & whats gone forever.
One of my families is in Chorlton - and all I have is names & ages, no other info.

I will go have a look what I can find for you on the recovered info website tho.

Gaille

[Gaille]

Hi, everyone,

Could some kind soul please help me out with Thomas Mason et al. (details below)?  I'd be grateful for the full line for each member, if it's not too much trouble:  relation to head, marital condition, age, occupation, birthplace, and infirmity.  Thanks so much!

1851 Census
Chorlton RD, Ardwick
47 Union St

Names:  Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Ann Gould, Mary, Thomas, James, and George Henry MASON.  Also  Susan WILLIAMSON (maybe a visitor).

--Daniel

Hi Daniel,

A lot of the 1851 cencus for manchester was destroyed, so its rather patchy whats availible & whats gone forever.
One of my families is in Chorlton - and all I have is names & ages, no other info.

I will go have a look what I can find for you on the recovered info website tho.

Gaille

Ok, all thats on the website is what you already know unfortunatly:

47 Union Street :

MASON Thomas
MASON Elizabeth
MASON John
MASON Ann Gould
MASON Mary ...
MASON Thomas
MASON James
MASON George Henry
WILLAMSON Susan

Its over 2 pages:
http://www.1851-unfilmed.org.uk/1851page.php?book=2C&transcript=299&districtname=Chorlton%20RD,%20Ardwick&subdistrict=C2
and
http://www.1851-unfilmed.org.uk/1851page.php?book=2C&transcript=300&districtname=Chorlton%20RD,%20Ardwick&subdistrict=C2
(cant figure out how to hyperlink sorry!)

Sorry its not much help to you

Gaille

[HOWMUCH]

Hello Daniel
Sorry cannot add much to Gaille reply but the CD I have for unfilmed Ardwick has the following:

Ann Gould MASON                  born Manchester Lancs
Mary                                       born Manchester Lancs
Thomas                                  born Manchester Lancs
James                                     born Manchester Lancs
George Henry              3yrs    at home         born Manchester Lancs
Susan WILLIAMSON     19yrs  unmarried domestic servant   born Cheshire  Church Minshull

Not much 

Eric

[Gaille]

Hello Daniel
Sorry cannot add much to Gaille reply but the CD I have for unfilmed Ardwick has the following:

Ann Gould MASON                  born Manchester Lancs
Mary                                       born Manchester Lancs
Thomas                                  born Manchester Lancs
James                                     born Manchester Lancs
George Henry              3yrs    at home         born Manchester Lancs
Susan WILLIAMSON     19yrs  unmarried domestic servant   born Cheshire  Church Minshull

Not much 

Eric

ohhh i didnt know there was a cd !
Eric could you possibly see if theres more on mine on it too??

Gaille

[dkpeddie]

Thanks so much, Eric and Gaille.  Those bit and pieces just make the puzzle more tantalizing!  No doubt I've got my work cut out for me as I pursue these enigmatic Masons.  And Gaille, I too didn't understand there was a cd with more to offer -- seems like a must-acquisition for anyone with lots of ancestors in the  region.  Eric, can you estimate how much more info, on average, is provided for the given person on the cd, over and beyond what's there on the website index?

[HOWMUCH]

Hello Gaille and Daniel
I joined the Manchester and Lancashire Family history society and then discovered that there was a CD in relation to the unfilmed 1851 census records for Ardwick ie the water damaged returns that have been transcribed via ultra violet rays .
I was missing many of mine in the 1851 census and in particular Ardwick . I bought the CD ( £9.95) and it helped me with many of the family . Some had all the information fully transcribed and others had parts missing , like Daniel's .
I know there must be others transcribed for the Manchester and surrounding areas and these , I believe are the ones that are shown on the www.1851-unfilmed .org .uk .
I think you can also access the areas via the society at their headquarters ,but I would check on that if you are going to join .
I also believe you can do it via the Manchester local studies at the Reference Library .
There is a rootschatter that does have access to more information than I have but I am not sure of the username , so I would just post your question 
If you want a look up on Ardwick ,I would be glad to do it .
Regards
Eric

[dkpeddie]

Thanks again, Eric.  I just had a look at the water-damaged piece, over at Ancestry, and sure enough it's completely illegible in the bottom half:  everything is blacked out.  In fact, it's so uniformly obliterated that I wonder how the Manchester society got any data at all from it, since they did come up with the names for the index ... or, what amounts to the same question, how they extracted those names and not the other information.  Too bad!  In my research I've been really stymied by this family, especially by the father, mother, and first child--where born, when, and occupations.  What they reported on those points changed so dramatically from record to record, i.e. with more than the usual variation, that I was hoping to get some confirmation out of the 1851 census...

--Daniel