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From: Roy Stockdill <>
Subject: 1891 census lookup please
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:59:34 -0500

Gordon Stokes wrote.....

>>Could some kind soul please do a look up of 1891 census for me.
Wish to find Frederick George Stokes or George Frederick Stokes possably in
Gloucestershire, Pershore, Teukesbury,or Evesham area, age approx 11,
Father
(Head) Mark Stokes , may be Brother William and sister Jane or Jenny.<<

GENERALLY speaking, for a lookup in the 1891 census you must have a
specific address.There are no surname indexes for the 1891 census for
Gloucestershire or Worcestershire (unless some local FHS is in the process
of indexing them), so you ask the impossible unless you expect someone to
spend months looking through many films.

Please understand that the 1891 census is not like the 1881, which has been
fully transcribed and indexed for the entire country. The 1891 has been
indexed only very sparsely by family history society volunteers. To know
which areas have been indexed, you need a booklet called "Marriage and
Census Indexes for Family Historians" one of the Gibson Guides by Jeremy
Gibson and Elizabeth Hampson. This is published by the Federation of Family
History Societies and details can be found on the FFHS website
<www.familyhistorybooks.co.uk>

Roy Stockdill, Editor, The Journal of One-Name Studies
The Stockdill Family History Society
Web page:- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roystock
Web page of the Guild of One-Name Studies:- http://www.one-name.org
”Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you.
If he does not, why humiliate him?" - Canon Sydney Smith (scholar and
humorist 1771-1845)

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