dog on 1911 census!

[panda40]

I was watching an old edition of QI on TV last night and it featured a question about the Great Lafayette a magician from the Victorian era. I was interested in his story so I googled him and the information given clearly gives him as a resident in London. He was given a dog called Beauty by Houdini and he doted on the dog. So I thought I would try and locate him in the 1911 census.
Lo and behold he is enumerated under his stage name living in London and he has listed his dog as his daughter. The enumerator has then crossed through this record and written no further information available.

Anyone else come across animals on a census record before
regards panda

[expatinturkey]

I was watching an old edition of QI on TV last night and it featured a question about the Great Lafayette a magician from the Victorian era. I was interested in his story so I googled him and the information given clearly gives him as a resident in London. He was given a dog called Beauty by Houdini and he doted on the dog. So I thought I would try and locate him in the 1911 census.
Lo and behold he is enumerated under his stage name living in London and he has listed his dog as his daughter. The enumerator has then crossed through this record and written no further information available.

Anyone else come across animals on a census record before
regards panda

Love this! A real case of a house is not a home without a dog! LOL the enumerator must have been as sick as a dog to realize it wasn't a human on the list!

[shanew147]

here's a dog on the Irish 1911 census, he's crossed out on the form, but has been transcribed - see Tatters age 3. 
 
Cullen household, Blessington Street, Dublin City
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Inn_s_Quay/Blessington_Street/26988


Shane

[oldtimer]

Lovely story!

Just been reading about him, and he sadly died that same year in a fire.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-13334087

He was buried with his dog 

[JenB]

Lafayette and Beauty  (looks like she's wearing her diamond studded collar  )
http://www.scotclans.com/bletherskite/?p=2786

[margaretfrank]

My daughter who doesnot intend to have children said she was quite miffed that she could not include her Rhodesian Ridgeback Dana on recent 2011 census forms. She argue Dana is her substitute child..May be she should have just gone ahead and done it

[cati]

In the dim and distance past I used to be of those poor souls who collated the electoral register and took the flak when things went wrong:  you know, the complaints that 'my daughter's been sent a polling card and she's only eighteen months old: how stupid is the Council?' (answer: well, if you can't follow instructions, put her name on the form  and don't even bother to state a date of birth...)

I did realise that  Tiddles Johnson, age 5 was likely to be the cat:  but George Smith (no dob) slipped through the net - he was a cat as well.  And I was polite when answering the question 'Why have you sent my cat a polling card?'...

Cati

[RedMystic]

In the dim and distance past I used to be of those poor souls who collated the electoral register and took the flak when things went wrong:  you know, the complaints that 'my daughter's been sent a polling card and she's only eighteen months old: how stupid is the Council?' (answer: well, if you can't follow instructions, put her name on the form  and don't even bother to state a date of birth...)

I did realise that  Tiddles Johnson, age 5 was likely to be the cat:  but George Smith (no dob) slipped through the net - he was a cat as well.  And I was polite when answering the question 'Why have you sent my cat a polling card?'...

Cati

I'm sure it wasn't funny for you at the time, but you have given me a fully blown belly laugh this morning. 

[cati]

In the dim and distance past I used to be of those poor souls who collated the electoral register and took the flak when things went wrong:  you know, the complaints that 'my daughter's been sent a polling card and she's only eighteen months old: how stupid is the Council?' (answer: well, if you can't follow instructions, put her name on the form  and don't even bother to state a date of birth...)

I did realise that  Tiddles Johnson, age 5 was likely to be the cat:  but George Smith (no dob) slipped through the net - he was a cat as well.  And I was polite when answering the question 'Why have you sent my cat a polling card?'...

Cati

I'm sure it wasn't funny for you at the time, but you have given me a fully blown belly laugh this morning. 

What I wanted to say was 'Because he's brighter than you are...'

Cati