The McDonald Family in The Census

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• 1841
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Some useful definitions

Piece number

(Normally contains between 100-400 pages).

A PRO reference number

Referring to a number of Enumeration Districts represented by a file HO107-XXX (XXX = piece number).

Enumeration District

This refers to a group of streets and has a special sheet listing which streets are in the following pages.

Folio

(Reference to two pages). The original book pages were stamped with a folio number on every other page in the top right-hand corner.

Census RG9

Date taken: 8th April 1861 for the previous night Inclusions: As for 1851.

I suspect that the definition of Islington as being in the City is a transcription error, and should be Middx.

Census RG10

The 1871 Census for England was taken on the night of 2 April 1871.
The following information was requested: Name of street, avenue road, etc.; house number or name; whether or not the house was inhabited; number of rooms occupied if less than five; name of each person that had spent the night in that household; relationship of person enumerated to the head of the family; each persons marital status; age at last birthday (sex is indicated by which column the age is recorded in); each person’s occupation; whether they are employer or employee or neither; person's place of birth; whether deaf, dumb, blind, or lunatic.
Some of this information may be recorded in Welsh or English.

Census RG11

Date taken: 3rd - 4th April 1881. Inclusions: As for 1851.

Census RG12

Date taken: 5th - 6th April 1891. Inclusions: As for 1851.

The McDonalds shared the house with the Kilkenny family. (John McDonald's married daughter's family). The McDonalds occupied 4 rooms.The Kilkenny family occupied 3 rooms of the house according to the returns.

The handwriting on the census return is difficult to read, but I am pretty sure it says Crescent Street, which run south from Huntingdon Street. (The return for Huntingdon Street immediately preceeds this in the census.) There were 3 households at this address. John McDonald's family occupied 2 of the rooms.

Census RG13

Date taken: 31st March 1901.
Inclusions: First name, Last name (sometimes middle names or initials are supplied), Relationship to the Head of the household (i.e. wife, daughter, son, step -, nephew, niece, lodger, servant, visitor etc.), Marital status, Age (should be exact but often wrong), Occupations (fuller details supplied), Where born? Parish and County supplied and N. K. if not known, Country if abroad or Scotland and Ireland, Whether blind, imbecile, lunatic or deaf and dumb. Two columns were added to this census regarding employment.

Note that he spelling of the name on the original census return is MacDonald, whereas the more common spelling in other documents is McDonald. This is almost a transcription error by the enumerator.

Last Modified: 11/09/2004 20:55