1921 census

[Jon_ni]

Detail about working with and digitising the 1921 Census & security processes https://www.lostcousins.com/newsletters2/midjan22news.htm#Rigden

[Jon_ni]

I watched a Findmypast video interview with the conservators https://www.facebook.com/findmypast/videos/4610462089008749
People were in all sorts of strange places away from their families eg Agatha Christie. They mention boys at Scout Camps, young men sleeping off a heavy night in police cells, travelling salesman en route sleeping in his car etc.

I found my Gt grandfather listed in Northallerton when his wife and youngest are at home in Sunderland and residing with strangers not relations. As is inland is strange place for a senior Marine Engineer to be though the Head did seem to have an industral connection ref. his entry 1911 southern England. Not invested in the image or transcript for him.

[Sloe Gin]

I wasn't able to find my grandmother with any certainty.  She was a childless widow whose parents were both dead, and she isn't with her brothers or her future husband's (my grandfather) family.  Her first husband had died of the Spanish flu and his parents were already dead when they married.

It was quite exciting to find someone of the right name, age and birthplace with a family of the same surname as my grandfather, whom she would marry a couple of years later.  Was this a previously unknown branch of my family?  "Widow" didn't come up as a match, but you can't rely on every detail being entered or transcribed correctly, so I squandered £3.50 on the image.  But alas, it wasn't her.

[louisa maud]

Geronimo,  found  one of  my  long lost Charles but miss spelt, what  he  was  doing in Norfolk  I   really  don't know, I will print the full details later  but  I  suggest he was  being  fostered .

LM

[jonwarrn]

I told you to look in Norfolk, LM!

it's really a wait for the 1921 census to be released - you should at least get hold of Charles junior in that, hopefully in Norfolk.

[louisa maud]

Yes, you  did, i  don't  know  how  you found  out he  was  in Norfolk  prior to 1921, he was  miss spelt as  he  was  in 1945  when  I  caught  up with  him in North Allerton where  he  died ,

LM

[nestagj]

I found my grandparents who had married on the 1st June 1921 together near Liverpool.    I knew they had married in Liverpool but assumed that it was away day ! I was so surprised not to find them in their hometown in coastal North West Wales near Porthmadog...the owner of the house where they were living worked for Meccano and was Danish!   He was a seaman (which we knew) and she was working as a housemaid in the property.

If the census had been taken in April as it was supposed to be they wouldn't have been together.   

There was a very interesting webinar yesterday by the National Library of Wales from a family  historian from FindMyPast;; very enjoyable.   I believe it will be available on the NLW website at some stage.
N

[suey]

Found my grandmother, she has her youngest child with her.  We thought that this babe was taken into care and adopted or farmed out. Really surprised to find her with her mother.  I have looked at all available images, odd, no head of household or address has been filled in on the front page.  Granny and her daughter are the only two females on the page, the rest are all men, mostly factory workers, labourers or farm workers, all are described as lodgers. 
The page has been filled in by the same hand, most likely the enumerator.
I have access to five images.
The previous image is a blank schedule and the one before that is a family with six children and two lodgers, although they both appear to be working for the family.

Looks likely that Granny is still transient, job to job, place to place, at least she was partly honest with her answers although she seems to have forgotten that she had three children and not two as stated

[IgorStrav]

https://genealogyjude.com/2022/01/22/the-1921-census-in-the-news/

Apologies if this has already been posted, but very interesting article about the public reaction to the 1921 census.