Genealogy Forum UK

Just wondering whether anyone has ever seen a list of the description of the enumeration districts transcribed. -- I find the most difficult part of working my way through an actual census when the indexes don't lead me to the right entry is to work out which of the actual districts I need to work through. -- I know that they described them with local names of the time but when used with a map I have been able to follow a route on occasion and so spot names that would otherwise not have been found.

Ancestry lists them MG, you click on the Census District above the Image. HTH from Linell.

linell wrote:Ancestry lists them MG, you click on the Census District above the Image. HTH from Linell.

I think that is what I have found so far -- ie can get the district and then access the description -- just wondered whether they had been transcribed anywhere so you could use find eg to find which of the numbered districts is relevant -- maybe it is a job for my retirement -- don't hold you breath though --current financial climate that is a long way off!

That would be a great service to Genealogy MG, setting up a Web Site of all the Enumeration Districts. I know the Pension Age is rising, is it 66 or 68? Seems a long time to wait. Linell.

linell wrote:That would be a great service to Genealogy MG, setting up a Web Site of all the Enumeration Districts. I know the Pension Age is rising, is it 66 or 68? Seems a long time to wait. Linell.

I have just looked at Sedgley 1861 and there are 42(43 if you include the work house) -- I don't want to even think about how many that would be for all the census for all the districts even of just the Black Country! --

At the rate the pension age is rising I start to wonder whether I will ever get there !!

Have you seen this?

http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.go ... ts_Project

The set-up is a bit cumbersome but if you scroll down to "Browsing" and click the census year, then Dudley (for example), and the letter "P" you can find all the entries for Peartree Lan/Street and the folio numbers. Does that help at all?

For 1861
http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.go ... reet_Index
It even gives the name of nearby streets in some cases.

Thank you that was the sort of thing I was looking for. I have bookmarked it

Doesn't FreeBMD have something like that in their drop down lists on the search page?