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From: "Pat Jeffs" <>
Subject: Re: [D-G LIST] 1841 census
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 13:48:58 +0100
References: <25.286d2c63.2a2c139b@aol.com>


Ayrshire was included in the 1841 census. It is the first Scottish
counties that is going to be transcribed and indexed by Scottish
FreeCen. See www.speakeasy.org/~jgribble/ayr.html for more details.

Regards

Pat Jeffs
Buckinghamshire
England

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Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 1:34 AM
Subject: Re: [D-G LIST] 1841 census


> Mitchell,
>
> That would be a daunting task for anyone to do for you,
unfortunately. To my
> knowledge, the 1841 census was not indexed for Ayrshire, a fairly
large
> county. For someone to do this, and in in a reasonable amount of
time, you'd
> have to know the parish in which they resided at the time of the
census.
> Then someone could do a lookup on a microfilm that contained the
enumeration
> district(s) for that parish. Otherwise, please don't be surprised
if no one
> offers to rise to the challenge.
>
> Your alternative is to order the films for each parish and slowly go
through
> them (at least twice), page by page, line by line...
>
> Yours aye,
>
> John Jardine
> Cincinnati, Ohio USA
> D&G FHS Member #1918
>
> Alba mo dhuthaich gu deireadh mo la!
> (Scotland my homeland forever!)
>
> JARDINE/JARDEN in Dumfries, Maxwelltown, Annan, Applegarth,
Wamphray,
> Torthorwald, Collin, Racks, Cummertrees, Powfoot, Mouswald,
Kirkmichael,
> Templand; GREEN in Dumfries, Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbright; RAE in
Dumfries,
> Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbright; MOFFAT in Dumfries, Maxwelltown;
McMILLAN in
> Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Irongray; BRODIE in Dumfries, Maxwelltown;
HOPE in
> Annan
>
> ______________________________

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