Guest Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 I stayed up till the early hours looking up my ancestors. I have spent nearly £32. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miffy Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 "I've just been trying to find out who lived in our cottage but have had no luck. We live in a hamlet, not on a street and have a house name rather than a number... any suggestions?" I have found it helpful to look at the Enumerators description of the area, sometimes you can work out which way they walked round by working between that and the actual census pages, sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt. Once I found that a hamlet had been included twice, I think it was Crofthandy, once walking in one direction and then again later walking in the opposite direction. No idea if it was the same ennumerater or not. Was it a mistake or were the residents having a laugh at someone elses expense I guess we'll never know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted January 17, 2009 Author Share Posted January 17, 2009 I'm having the same problem - I'm checking a hamlet that doesn't have numbers or house names Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-s Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 I've found some of my great grandparents and found out the were born in Herfordshire, Rotherham, Banbury and Lincolnshire. My grandad on my Dad's side remains a mystery. He has a very unusual middle name and there can't be that many boys with that name. Dad is sure my grandad was born before 1911. Dad tells me he was very secretive about where he came from. I am determined to crack this mystery which is why I was up early on a Sunday morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 Exciting!!! Have you found him yet?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-s Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 No, not yet. I found a young boy with the same first, middle and surname but he couldn't be my grandad as he was a few years too old. His father had the correct name but his mother did not. The young boy lived in staffordshire and my grandad came from Nottinghamshire Grandad had two sisters but they could of course have been born after 1911. The boy in the census came from a family who could afford a servant as a servant was listed living in the household, my grandad was a miner all his working life. The boy I found was the only one with the same first, middle and surname as my grandad in the whole of the UK in 1911 at the time of the census. I daren't phone my Dad again today, I phoned him 8 times yesterday trying to get more info from him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 The only thing I would add is that sometimes the person taking the census would round up the ages of the children. So if they were say 3 they might be put down as 5. I don't know if they had stopped doing this by 1911. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
