1911 CENSUS (General)

by m p griffiths , Saturday, May 12, 2012, 08:40 (4581 days ago) @ Jefff

'please read the Census entries and transcribe them yourself, my own albeit limited experiences suggest the Ancestry transcription system is imaginatively inaccurate'

The 1911 census is different to all other census returns before. Extra information includes, No. of rooms, years married, children born alive, children living. The last column with personal details (Infirmity) i.e. deaf etc., has been blocked out. The actual census page (A4 size and landscape) has completed and signed by an occupant of the house, (usually the Head) followed on the next page -

by a Return Schedule sheet filled out by the Enumerator - with these headings....

Census
England & Wales
1911
Schedule

No. of Registration District:
No. of Sub-Registration District:
No. of Enumeration District:
Name of Head of Family or Separate Occupier:
Postal Address:

The Enumerator's references cross-check with the 1911 Census Summary Books - also on Ancestry.

- therefore unless your ancestor had 'lousy writing or spelt their surname a little differently' - errors
are 'limited'. The only slight variation sometimes, is the address filled out by the Occupier, and the Postal Address filled in by the Enumerator.

This free access coincides with the launch of Ancestry's fully searchable 1911 census by 'County', (36 million records). Before this, to search for anyone in Gloucestershire was tedious, and the 1911 Census Summary Book was the only option.