1921 census

[phil57]

The piece number etc is on the transcript of my one, but I can’t see it anywhere on the actual documents.

On the document is the

Reg district & sub district and enumeration district.   (On the “front” that you say is blank on yours)

Yes. The piece number only appears to be handwritten on the "Cover" page on the ones that I have viewed so far, but without the leading zero if the "proper" piece number consists of a zero followed by four other numbers.

The images labelled "Front" by FindMyPast are the other side of the page that the return is entered on by the householder, but for institutions the forms appear to be more a continuous set of returns with a single inside front page containing the box in which the address should have been entered. It is that address box which has not been filled in on the set I am looking at.

The piece numbers also form part of the filename of each image when downloaded.

It is possible with the previous England censuses to do a kind of reverse lookup, where by searching the piece number you can find a description of the area, but I haven't found anywhere to do that for 1921, possibly because it has only just been released.

[PaulineJ]

Have you tried using the national archives catalogue for piece descriptions?

[cuffie81]

The piece numbers are also part of the URLs. They're slightly obscured as the forward slashes are encoded (as %2F). If you want a simple way of making the URLs more readable just use an online URL decoder.

Example transcript URL format:
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBC/1921/RG15/01234/0567

Example image URL format:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBC/1921/RG15/01234/0567&parentid=GBC/1921/RG15/01234/0567/08

Piece number: 01234

[phil57]

Have you tried using the national archives catalogue for piece descriptions?

I couldn't find them for 1921 earlier, perhaps because my eyes have now gone out of focus. I'll return to it all tomorrow

[louisem]

Please could someone point me in the right direction for some info about the employment codes written on in green?
I have found a page for the codes in the Personal Occupation column but I can’t find anything about the codes in the Employment column.
No doubt I am missing something simple 😊

[Boongie Pam]

Please could someone point me in the right direction for some info about the employment codes written on in green?
I have found a page for the codes in the Personal Occupation column but I can’t find anything about the codes in the Employment column.
No doubt I am missing something simple 😊

https://archive.org/details/census-1921.-classification-of-occupations/mode/2up

197 pages of codes… you maybe able to get a text version in the controls underneath the book, I’ve not investigated.

[coombs]

I found my great, great grandfather aged 70 as an inmate in Headington, Oxfordshire. I am sure it is the workhouse down Cowley Road. I paid to see just the page his entry is on, and to get the actual address would probably mean looking through each sheet until I get to the start or end and it would mean paying for every sheet. Unless I can go to the very last or first page.

[cuffie81]

Coombs, did you buy the transcript or image? If it was the image then you should be able to access the "front" page/image that has the address, as explained by Boongie Pam on a earlier post.

(I'm not sure about transcripts as I haven't bought any of those.)

[Gadget]

Transcripts have the address and location map.