"Shooting the Nets": A Note on the Reliability of the 1881 Census Enumerators' Books

Local Population Studies

Volumn , Issue 59, 1997, Pages 54-57

  Woollard, Matthew ^a  

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References (13)

1. E. Higgs, A clearer sense of the census (London, 1996), 39-43. See also V. C. Burton, 'A floating population: vessel enumeration returns, 1851-1921', in D. Mills and K. Schürer eds, Local communities in the Victorian census enumerators' books (Oxford, 1996), 47-55.
2. E. Higgs, A clearer sense of the census (London, 1996), 39-43. See also V. C. Burton, 'A floating population: vessel enumeration returns, 1851-1921', in D. Mills and K. Schürer eds, Local communities in the Victorian census enumerators' books (Oxford, 1996), 47-55.
3. 1881 Census England and Wales, Islands in the British seas, BPP 1883, LXXX.707. [C. 3643]
4. All users of the census reports should be aware of the possibility of published errata. Apart from the sheet found tipped into the Islands report, the 1881 Census Report contains a substantial errata section. See 1881 Census England and Wales, Ages, condition as to marriage; occupations and birthplaces of the people, BPP 1883, LXXX.1-, 529-31.
5. For example Chambers's encyclopaedia (London and Edinburgh, 1895) gives the incorrect population. However, A. W. Moore's History of the Isle of Man (vol. 2, Douglas, 1900, repr. Douglas, 1992) gives the correct figure, 646.
6. For example Chambers's encyclopaedia (London and Edinburgh, 1895) gives the incorrect population. However, A. W. Moore's History of the Isle of Man (vol. 2, Douglas, 1900, repr. Douglas, 1992) gives the correct figure, 646.
7. Higgs, Clearer sense, 25.
8. BPP 1883, LXXX.707, 4.
9. [F. Palmer?], Old Peel (Peel, c.1958), n.p. (This volume contains a selection of articles reprinted from the Peel City Guardian.)
10. Higgs, Clearer sense, 43-4.
11. PRO RG 11/5609 ff.48-59.
12. The enumeration of those at Kinsale did not include the place of birth.
13. A further Manx idiosyncrasy has recently been reported by B. Lawson, 'Which 1851 Census?', Journal of the Isle of Man Family History Society, 19 2 (1997), 48-9, which suggests that the Manx authorities had a second copy of the 1851 CEBs made before despatching schedules and CEBs to London, as one copy excludes some of the population of Douglas. (I am grateful to Frances Coakley for this reference.)