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From: "Lesley Purcell" <>
Subject: RE: 1841 Census
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 19:45:23 -0000
In-Reply-To: <000e01c2acda$807b2fc0$40466bd5@dereksown>


Don't forget the 1841 was mostly written in pencil, hence the reason why
a lot of it is illegible. You need expensive scanning equipment such as
Archive CD Books use to bring up the resolution.

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Powles [mailto:]
Sent: 26 December 2002 12:30
To:
Subject: Re: 1841 Census


Hi Graham
I took a look at your families
>
> HO 107 789/3/28 (St. John's Maddermarket)
> In Pottergate Street;
> Mary Love 36 Lodging House No 'tick'
> Henry do 15 Yes
> Mary do 12 Yes
> Julia do 8 Yes
> Samuel do 6 Yes
>
I agree with your reading accept for Samuel, there appears to be 2 or 3
more letters after the 'l', cannot make what the name might be. The
leading letter 'S' at first look might be a 'B' except that the
enumerator starts a B with a down stroke.

As for the HARDY family
>
> HO 107 789/3/24 & 25 (bottom and top of next page)
> In Dove Street;
> John Hardy 35 Plumber
> Harriett do 36 Yes
> John do 12
> ???? do 9-------------William
> ???? do 6-------------Stephen
> ???? do 2-------------Dominic
> Sarah do 15
> ???? do 1-------------Eliza or Thurza
These names are my nearest interpretation, I would want to check them
against PRs or later census.

I agree that some images are poor quality, I think this due to faded
ink. Some other pages are a lot worse than those containing the above
families.

Bye for now
Derek in Oxford
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Norfolk FHS member 6327,
researching POWLES, CODLING mainly in Norfolk
Oxfordshire FHS member 4085,
researching WELLMAN in Berkshire & Oxfordshire
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