Some Famous People found on the Census !

[Biker]

Thought this chap rang a bell when looking for someone else ...

Isambard K Brunel 44 Civil Engineer b. Portsmouth with his wife whildren and his mother (aged 76 Lady Sophia) and 10 servants at Duke Street Westminster 1851.  The great man was to die of a stroke in 1859.

Biker
 

[Necromancer]

anybody ever find Queen Victoria's Marriage Index entry ?

I know she married Albert Saxe-Coburg et al in 1840, St James Chapel ... but did the Royal Family have to have a Civil Regn in 1840 ? - they do now !

[maffie]

Tutankhamun's friend before he started digging around in the mud.

1881 Census

Samuel Jno. CARTER      Head       Male        46  Norfolk, England      Artist     
Martha Joyce CARTER      Wife     Female    42   Norfolk, England           
Amy Joyce CARTER      Dau        Female     11  Kensington            
Howard CARTER      Son        Male      6   Kensington            
Anne RALPH                  Serv      Female        30     Lambeth      Cook      
Ellen GREEN                   Serv     Female     19      Clerkenwell      Domestic 


Matt (An Egypt nut)      

[quidditch seeker]

I foung this on the 1891 Census for the Isle of Wight

Rudyard Kipling Lodger Male 25 East Indies,Bombay  Author

[Cal241]

My favourie artist in 1881

 Danti G. ROSSETTI   (Head)   W   Male   52   London, London, Middlesex, England   Artist Painter    

16 Cheyne Walk
Middlesex, England

[julie64]

I always enjoy looking for my favourite authors!

1851 - Patrick Bronte curator Harworth
daughter Charlotte

1851 - Mary A Evans 31 annuitant (George Eliot)

later living with partner/author George Lewes
1861 - George H Lewes 43 author
Marian Lewes 40 wife (although they were not actually married)

and in 1871 Geworge Lewes 53 literature
Marian E Lewes 50 wife literature

living in Marylebone

Regards Julie

[KathMc]

What a fun topic. Like I wasnt' already spending too much time on here. 

Here's one from America:
Amherst, Massachusetts, 1880

Emily Dickinson 75 mother widowed
Emily E Dickinson  49  daughter occupation keeps house
Lavinia Dickinson  47  daughter single
Margaret Kelley     35  born Ireland domestic servant.

[KathMc]

And here's another one, and my last for now (maybe ):

1860 Springfield, Illinois

Abraham Lincoln  age 51, born Kentucky  occ lawyer
Mary  age 35, born Kentucky
Robert T, 16 born Illinois
Willie W, 9, born Illinois
Thomas, 7, born Illinois
M. Johnson, 18, born Illinois, servant
Phillip Dinkell, 14, born Illinois, servant

Kath

[Isobelruss]

1871
Hanover Terrace Kensington
Oswald Sickert 43 Artist b Prussia
with son Walter aged 10 b Bavaria.Wasnt Walter supposed to have something to do with the Ripper murders according to recent authors.
RG10 39 folio 17 p29