1841 Census Householders' Schedules - a real eye-opener!

[ElizabethHerts]

http://www.balh.org.uk/uploads/tlh-downloads/the-local-historian-43-02-may-2013.pdf

You need to scroll down a little.

As pointed out to me by a member of the Cornwall OPC group, this makes fascinating reading. I was totally ignorant of any of this.

[Phoenix]

That was fascinating. I'd always understood - wrongly - that 1851 was the first household schedules.

I knew they were in place by 1871 as a London enumerator repeatedly wrote bitterly: lodger took schedule, indicating just how frequently the poor moved home.

[Merry]

Very interesting. If only all these documents survived :rolleyes:

[ElizabethHerts]

Isn't it fascinating?

I hadn't noticed I had type Schedudles!! Could you please change it, Merry?

[Merry]

I hadn't noticed that either!

[ElizabethHerts]

Schedudles has a nice ring to it!

[marquette]

What an interesting insight into the 1841 Census. Amazing how co-operative everyone seemed to be, making their best effort to do as asked.

It sent me off to do some research - I have PAGE family in the Cainham area a little earlier than the census. But I did have to go and look to see if William Page enumerator of district 3 could be related.

[Kit]

Thanks for this. It was very interesting. I'm with Merry and wish that all the HSs had survived.

[Jenoco]

Thanks, Elizabeth. That was very interesting.