TOOMEY/BURNETT (General)

by sidtoomey01 , Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Tuesday, December 30, 2014, 00:50 (3617 days ago) @ Mike Pinchin

Thanks heaps for this information and links to the old maps. I had been mainly looking around Church lane and Oakle Street. In fact i have walked them both courtesy of Google Earth so often i feel like a local. Since your reply i have looked more closely at the 1861 Census and notice that all of the inhabitants in the twelve pages of Census returns looked at were living on the North Side of the Roman Road between the border with Huntley in the West and Beauchamp Lodge in the East. Looks like i will be friends with Google Earth once more.
Do you know if the Census entries always followed a logical party ? i.e. Would the cottage you mentioned be next door to the Farm ?
I read somewhere that the Census reports were transcribed after all of the information had been gathered. One of them i looked at for the Toomeys in another decade showed pages of entries with each family or lodging allocated a consecutive number but no addresses were actually listed. Do you know why this would be.
Sid Toomey