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From: "blanchec" <>
Subject: Re: Area Covered by Census in Cornish Roots CD
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 21:17:40 +1200


Many thanks, Denys, for taking the time to post this. Shall just print it
out to put with my CD.

Best wishes

Blanche Charles

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> From: Denys Thomas <>
> To:
> Subject: Area Covered by Census in Cornish Roots CD
> Date: Friday, 22 May 1998 03:00
>
> In-Reply-To: <>
> First, may I thank the list members who have written to me with kind
> comments or additional information regarding my earlier message regarding

> the Cornish Roots CD. Several correspondents have asked for a definition

> of the areas covered.
>
> Cornish Business Systems inform me that the very valuable 1851 census
> section of the Cornish Roots CD includes all the Sub-Districts shown
below
> with the exception of those indicated as excluded under ST.AUSTELL. The
> same four Registration Districts were used to compile the census returns
> for the years 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891.
>
> BODMIN
> Sub-districts : Bodmin; Egloshayle; Lanlivery; St. Mabyn
>
> LISKEARD
> Sub-districts: Callington; Lerrin; Liskeard; Looe.
>
> Part of St.AUSTELL
> Sub-district included: Fowey; Sub-districts NOT included; Grampound;
> Mevagissey; St. Austell.
>
> ST. COLUMB
> Sub-districts: Newlyn; Padstow; St. Columb
>
> Please note that the area covered by a Census sub-district often does not

> co-coincide with a parish of the same name.
>
> I can compare like with like, now that the sub-districts covered by the
CD
> are known. I have carefully checked the number of MORCOMs (41) reported
on
> the more detailed CD Census with the MORCOM listings for the same areas
in
> the NZ index. The small differences are exactly what one would expect if

> two different people transcribed the same 1851 Census. Anyone who has
> consulted the enumerator's forms on microfilm will know how difficult
they
> often are to decipher - handwriting seems to have been even worse in 1851

> than today. Four of the CD MORCOMs are interpreted as MORCUMs in the NZ
> index, and I cannot find Richard, age 51, who is listed in the CD
MORCOMs,
> in the NZ version. The only other variation I have found is a girl whose

> forename is `Maria' in one version and `Marie' in the other. The close
> similarity between these two samples is a tribute to the painstaking
> accuracy of the work of Ray Woodbine and the NZ transcribers.
>
> I understand that Cornish Business Systems are making rapid progress in
> addressing the main issues raised in my two review messages.
>
> Denys THOMAS
>
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