Becoming a census enumerator 1860's (General)

by unknown, Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 03:51 (6074 days ago) @ slowhands

Thank you Slowhands! The suggestion of recruitment through the Overseers of the Poor might just be the connection as John Drew, one of A.J.Hayes' brothers-in-law was a collector of Poor Relief in 1861. Perhaps that might explain the apparently unlikely choices of the Hayes father and son. The Hodges father and son are probably less surprising as the father was a successful grocer and must have been fairly well-known locally.

This may be the closest I can get to what really happened.

Thanks,
Sian.