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Progress
All censuses are now loaded up to date.
I decided to re-check the transcriptions I made in case of errors – obviously if you see any errors, please let me know!
I’ve just completed checking the census transcriptions and have found a couple of errors. Obviously there will always be an element of interpretation - especially with the handwriting of some of the enumerators - but I think this time the transcription is a bit tighter.
The 1841 enumerator had a strange method of sometimes putting the wife as last in a household (after the servants) and used ditto strangely! In some cases people I knew to be related to the head of household (same surname) from later censuses etc, were noted below the servants as surname “ditto”. I have put the correct surname where known (on the first transcription I had assumed that ditto meant copy the name directly above). Other than that, there was one age error I had made and a couple of names transcribed wrongly. I had also missed 4 or 5 occupations out all together. So it was worth doing. I have now completed my re-check with all of these censuses.
1841 census,
1851 census
1861 census
1871 census
1881 census
1891 census
1901 census
1911 census
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