Requirements of a Census Enumerator (General)

by unknown, Monday, April 14, 2008, 03:52 (6076 days ago) @ ChrisW

This, if anything, increases my puzzlement. It is much what one would expect in the way of requirements, but I can't square it with what I know of my gg-grandfather. Arthur James Hayes appeared in the Forest in 1838, unemployed; we know he was literate as he signed his marriage cert. (married the youngest daughter of the "Poetess of the Forest" Catherine Drew); he worked in Cinderford Iron Works in fairly lowly capacities (engine man, journeyman refiner, labourer and finally watchman); in 1852 he was twice imprisoned for contempt of court which seems to been conected to non-appearance at court for a debt hearing. He doesn't seem to fit the bill very well! Or would the requirements perhaps have had to be modified to get enough people in areas of high illiteracy?

Sian.