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From: "Nivard Ovington" <>
Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] listed twice on the census
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 23:00:59 +0100
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Just to add a couple of points

This relates to the UK as the USA did things differently

The schedules at barracks or institutions would often be filled in by clerks who took the
information from other forms or lists, such as admission lists

So the people being enumerated may not have physically been there when it was filled in

There was a strict time scale for the enumerator to collect the schedules and then transcribe them
as you mentioned , if they didn't get them all done in time and returned they lost a fair chunk of
their pay (which was not that great anyway)

Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)


> Teddy
>
> Re the 1871 census
>
> The 1871 census for England was taken on the night of 2 April 1871.
> Enumeration forms were distributed to all households a few days before
> the census night and the household members were required to complete the
> forms themselves. The next day, the enumerators collected the completed
> forms. All of the details from the individual forms were later sorted
> and copied into enumerators' books.
>
> It could be that he was at home the time the census form was filled out
> or at the barracks when it was filled out so when the census taker came
> around the form was already filled out thus making him seem to be in 2
> places at the same time
>
> slc

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