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Some Famous People found on the Census !
« on: Friday 28 January 05 23:14 GMT (UK) »
In a lull of waiting for certificates before resuming my own family research, I wandered about the census and found, I think  ...

1871 - Anthony Trollope, 53, occupation: Author and Novelist living with his wife Rose and numerous servants in Chesant, Herts.  Author of, among others,  Barchester Towers.

1871 - Hannah Cullwick, 37, Cook, b. Shiffnall, Shropshire.  Servant at the home of Elizabeth Henderson, Colonel's Widow plus staff including a page in Paddington.  (A life-long servant, Hannah Cullwick had an illicit and sexually erotic liaison and then marriage to the novelist Arthur Munby - he was 'intrigued by servant women in soiled clothing' as the book,  Love and Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick indicates).

You would have thought I'd had enough of the census looking for my lot!!  ;D

Interesting though ... any more?

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Jonathan
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Re: Some Famous People found on the Census !
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 30 January 05 21:22 GMT (UK) »
 :D :D :D

S'funny you should say that, but whilst researching for a friend, I came across George Bernard Shaw on the 1901 Census

10 Adelphi Terrace
St Martin in the Field

George B Shaw/Head/44/Author/Ireland
Charlotte P Shaw/Wife/44/Ireland
Mary Farmer/Servant/35/Cook/Bromley by Bow,London
Annie Kilner/Servant/27/Housemaid/Surrey

 :D :D :D
BUCKLEY, Ches. & Lancs, DUNN, Ireland & Lancs. EDGSON, Rutland, Leics & Lancs. LYON, Lancs. McNULTY, Ireland & Lancs. MORRIS, Beds, Hunts & Lancs. SWARBRICK, Lancs. TURNER, Lancs. WILLIAMSON, Lancs.

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Re: Some Famous People found on the Census !
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 30 January 05 22:36 GMT (UK) »
Jonathan!!

What HAVE you been reading??   :o

We thought genealogy was your only vice! LOL

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SOM: BIRD, BURT aka BROWN - HEF: BAUGH, LATHAM, CARTER, PRITCHARD - GLS: WEBB, WORKMAN, LATHAM, MALPUS - WIL: WEBB, SALTER - RAD: PRITCHARD, WILLIAMS - GLA: RYAN, KEARNEY, JONES, HARRY - MON: WEBB, MORGAN, WILLIAMS, JONES, BIRD - SCOTLAND: HASTINGS, CAMERON, KELSO, BUCHANAN, BETHUNE/ BEATON - IRELAND: RYAN (WATERFORD), KEARNEY (DUBLIN), BOYLE(DUNDALK)

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Re: Some Famous People found on the Census !
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 30 January 05 22:48 GMT (UK) »
1881 - RG11 0078 56 46

Oscar Wilde boarding in Chelsea with Frank Miles (society portrait painter). Apparently this was the year Wilde's first collection of poetry was published.

I somehow think I will be sat here til the early hours now :)
Nottinghamshire: Willmott, Williams, Oldham, Padgett, Burden, Stokes, Huskinson, Tuckwood, Morley, Barnett
Lincolnshire: Foster, Dennis, Mowbray
Leicestershire: Mowbray,Hudson, Tuckwood
Derbyshire: Starbrook
Somerset: Willmott, Elliott
Cork:Driscoll, Murphy
London Surrey:Driscoll, Cheesman
London Kent:Cheesman
Kent:Cheesman, Davis, West, Hills, Kneller, Bones, Eastup

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Re: Some Famous People found on the Census !
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 30 January 05 23:18 GMT (UK) »
Arranroots,

A mere interest in social history I assure you  ;D

The story of Hannah Cullwick was touched on in 'The Victorian House' by Judith Flanders in her section on The Scullery I believe, so I did a bit more reading - fascinating stuff.

Jonathan
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Re: Some Famous People found on the Census !
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 30 January 05 23:22 GMT (UK) »
In an idle moment I looked up the 1901 census for the road I grew up in, a dirt track on the edge of the forest. At one end of it there was a hotel and on census night there were only three guests in residence.

Ashdown Forest Hotel, Forest Row, East Sussex

Arthur C Doyle, marr, 41, Physician.
Jean E Lechie, single, 27. (his mistress)
Mary J Doyle, widow, 63. (his mother)


Phil
Sussex: Satcher (Hamsey) and Gatton (East Grinstead)
Leicestershire: Pratt
South Wales: Evans (Neath)
Poland: Gonet, Deren

Forest Row: War Memorial and Camp WW1
Lewisham War Memorials & WW1 Graves

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Re: Some Famous People found on the Census !
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 30 January 05 23:29 GMT (UK) »
I found the famous cricketer W.G. Grace at 7 Laurie Park Road, Lewisham - physician and secretary of the London County Cricket Club. On Saturday I walked past the house in Mottingham Lane which has a plaque commemorating him. 8)
Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa and Riley from St. Helena.
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Re: Some Famous People found on the Census !
« Reply #7 on: Monday 31 January 05 00:19 GMT (UK) »
Jonathan!  Shame on you.  You've given me a bad excuse to stay up all night!

How about Charlie Chaplin age 2 in 1891

Surrey
St Mary Newington Walworth
94 Barlow St

Hannah Chaplin Head Mar 24 professional singer music Surrey Walworth
Sydney S H? Chaplin son 6 Surrey Walworth
Charles Chaplin 2 Surrey Walworth

More, more, more

Pam
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Midlothian: Linn/d, Aitken, Martin
North Wales: Robins(on), Hughes, Parry, Jones
Cumberland: Lowther, Young, Steward, Miller
Somerset: Palmer, Cork, Greedy, Clothier

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Re: Some Famous People found on the Census !
« Reply #8 on: Monday 31 January 05 01:11 GMT (UK) »
Here's William Ewart Gladstone First Lord of the treasury in 1871...

RG10/357
Strand
Charing Cross
St Martin in the Fields

William E Gladstone 61 Head Gladstone First Lord of the treasury  bn Liverpool, Lancashire, England
William H Gladstone 30  Son Mp - JP bn London, Middlesex, England
Agnes Gladstone 28  Daughter  bn London, Middlesex, England
Helen Gladstone 21  Daughter  bn Harwardine, Flintshire, Wales


And a passel of servants!

Pam
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Dumfrieshire: Fallen, Fallon, Carruthers, Scott, Farish, Aitchison, Green, Ryecroft, Thomson, Stewart
Midlothian: Linn/d, Aitken, Martin
North Wales: Robins(on), Hughes, Parry, Jones
Cumberland: Lowther, Young, Steward, Miller
Somerset: Palmer, Cork, Greedy, Clothier

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