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From: Blackadder Family <>
Subject: Re: Census 1851
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 08:09:21 -0500


Julie Turner wrote:
>
> Message text written by INTERNET:
> >Hi Sadie,
> can`t help with your query but I had a family tree member who
> died as child on 3rd April 1881, Census 3/4 April and she was`nt
> included on the Census.
> Cheers from Ruth in Adelaide.
>
> Sadie Newman wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone shed light on the reason why a child was included in the 1851
> > census (taken 30/31 March, I believe) when she had died on 23 March?
> (Not
> > that I'm complaining, if she hadn't I would possibly have never known
> about
> > her! But I would be interested if anyone has come across this before).
> >
> > Sadie Newman
> >
> > <
>
> It does make you wonder if the Census was actually taken in those days all
> in one evening doesn't it?
> I wonder if each area was undertaken over maybe a week period, to allow
> time to get round on foot/horse, etc.
> Paul

Hi all

Don't know about Norfolk, but in Ontario, Canada (where it turned out
that a cousin was one of the enumerators) it was done over a week. He
dated the top of each page and so you could see his progression over the
week. So it is possible, maybe even probable, that it wasn't done on the
'official' census days.

Lynn Blackadder
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
Looking for BAKER, KING, COULSEY in Norfolk

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