Monthly Archives: September 2012

Random Jottings….

Following on from last week’s post ‘Census Oddities’, a couple of my queries have been resolved thanks to those kind folk at www.rootschat.comĀ (if you haven’t already discovered this excellent site, I’d recommend you to do so now!): A ‘Napkin Horse’ … Continue reading

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Census Oddities

During my hours spent trawling through census records as part of my research in coffee mill makers, I’ve come across some very strange entries in the column marked ‘Occupations’. There are some pleasingly personal views of the enumerators here. Here … Continue reading

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Update: new page added

Apologies for the delay in updating my blog – but I’ve added a new page for you: ‘Census Returns’. The nights are drawing in – I intend to spend my evenings with the laptop, checking out all the distant relatives … Continue reading

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