1911 Online Census.

dlambirl

eh.......zoom??

stovelid

LOL - note the emphatic double-swipe of the pen through the profession/occupation column for Sinead DeValera.

ejmaztec

Moonbaby wrote: »

I think it would depend on the census taker.
One of the forms handwriting is sooooo bad it looks just like mine. That has to be genetics.

One of my greatgrandmothers kept Roscommon people as domestic slaves. :eek:

Were there any red lights on the old homestead at all?:eek:

Mark200

Does anyone know where you can look at a a census from a later year? I don't even know the names of my parents' grandparents so I can't look them up on the 1911 one!

lucylu

no the next census was not taken until 1926.

bluto63

How many years have to pass before a census can be made public?

Holsten

100 I think.

lucylu

This means that the 1926 census records will be open to the public by the National Archives in the year 2026. By that time almost all of the persons covered in the 1926 census will be deceased. Although there was demand for a shorter period it was considered that 100 years was necessary to comply with the spirit of confidentiality promised to respondents.

Adamcp898

If it's 100 years before a census can be released Why do we have the 1911 census then????

dlofnep

Found my mother's side, they were all Irish speakers which is cool.

My father's side doesn't exist apparently lol

Jack Sheehan

Found my granny, aged 0!

danniemcq

wonder did anyone back then fill in their religion as jedi...

if they did that would be ****in class! and strange!

Newjellyboxer

Really is very addictive stuff. I have been able to tell what type of house my great grandmother lived in and the farm they had as they were the only house on the road.

Michellenman

So weird. My brother was looking around on this site and found loads of stuff. Our mother's great grandmother's sister died young and then our mother's great grandmother married her sister's widower decades later. No one knew of this man they both married, what he did or anything, no one even knew his first name. My mam kept digging and eventually found out all about him and by some stroke of luck somebody else had posted a photo of him on another site. Amazing stuff really.

My brother posted about it here. Crazy stuff really. http://www.irishelection.com/2009/09/1911-census-online-have-a-dig/

He also got his name wrong, his name is Thomas, not Billy.

Mark200

ScissorPaperRoc wrote: »

Maybe I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure these forms were filled in by people going from house to house. I don't think it was the homeowners themselves.

I've been looking at census information from 1901 and 1911 over the Summer for work and a lot of the forms have the same handwriting.

According to wikipedia:

The census information was recorded on the following forms:
Form A, which was completed by the head of family
Forms B1, B2, and N, which were completed by the census enumerator

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_of_Ireland,_1911

So yes it is their handwriting. Form A is the main one that lists everyone in their house, their religion etc

4zn76tysfajdxp

bluto63 wrote: »

Interesting, on the left of the page, it says to write in Irish if you can only spek Irish, English & Irish if you can speak both, or leave blank if otherwise. So back then was there not many people who could only speak English?

I think it was just assumed that everyone could speak English.

mukki

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai003089001/

Kid Nothing

Found my mothers family, 2 of her aunts are still alive as well, one is 103 and the other 101...mental:eek:

Jeanious

Mad stuff alright. Just came across the Artane Industrial school's return there, 410 pupils and about 10 teachers :eek: And the teachers form is filled out in the auld Irish script.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Drumcondra_Rural/Artaine_South/

randylonghorn

hairyfairy00 wrote: »

My great-grand father was a magistrate, coroner and a GP (busy guy) ...

That wouldn't have been considered a strange mix, coroners would ideally need both medical and legal knowledge to some level, magistrates were appointed from "upright members of the community". Both magistrate and coroner were very part-time posts (apart from RMs).

TequilaMockingBird wrote: »

I found an entry which has a Landed Gentry type couple in their 60's with a guest. Religon is listed as "brethren" and under the guests amount of children he has "don't know".

That would be Plymouth Brethern, and it would probably have been considered bad form for the householder to ask the guest if he didn't already know.

coyle wrote: »

I thought that a lot of the handwriting looks the same alright, but mother of jaysus, that'd be a labour-intensive way of doing it wouldnt it? Maybe they all just had similar writing back in the day?!

Actually i just checked a couple of returns, and the signature of the Head of the Family is the same as the actual writing on the form.

Many householders wouldn't have been able to write, so the enumerator would have been required to fill out their forms too.

Serenity Witty Ubiquity wrote: »

I think it was just assumed that everyone could speak English.

No, a fair number in 1911 wouldn't have been able to speak English, at least fluently, and the further west (in general) you went, the more that would have been true.

It's more because the census was then being run by an English government, so "speaks English" would have been seen as the default option from their point of view.

Ghost Train

Naughty Catholic Schoolgirls
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000027874/

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Drumcondra/Gracepark_Road/14178/

Jeanious

Ghost Train wrote: »

Naughty Catholic Schoolgirls
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000027874/

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Drumcondra/Gracepark_Road/14178/

Jaysus, whats that all about?! unless they filled out the wrong form or somethin!

January

coyle wrote: »

Jaysus, whats that all about?! unless they filled out the wrong form or somethin!

It does say it's a Reformatory school...

This_Years_Love

coyle wrote: »

Jaysus, whats that all about?! unless they filled out the wrong form or somethin!

They were probably Magdalene Laundries. Sometimes they put children in there when they ran out of room in the orphanages.

dsmythy

Ghost Train wrote: »

Naughty Catholic Schoolgirls
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000027874/

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Drumcondra/Gracepark_Road/14178/

Thieves! The lot of them!

JONJO THE MISER

Was Just going over the cenus with my father and he remembers all the names but misplaced a few names:p, tis very good, my great grandparents on my mothers side had 9 kids and only 4 of them survived:( and on my fathers my gret gandparents side were 11 kids and 9 survived:(, does make me very proud looking over it.

MrMicra

Mine was a bit depressing mostly farm labourers and domestic servants. A few cannot reads and two Irish onlies. Even the farmers were extremely poor. There seems to have been a big transformation between 1911 and the second world war.

JONJO THE MISER

All mine were read and write only and all were Farmers, up ya boyo:)

Mysterypunter

My Grandfather was 6, and he was a Scholer. The family had 3 servants, now we have none, bring back slavery.