These are the instructions
to enumerators contained at the start of every booklet. They are presented
here to illustrate what the census should contain, which may help you
interpret what you see. It is true that by no means all enumerators followed
these instructions!
DIRECTIONS
Respecting the manner in which Entries may be made in the Enumeration
Schedule
After City or Borough of write the name, if the District is
in a City or Borough; if not, draw a line through those words, or through
whichever of the two the District does not belong to. After Parish
or Township of write the name; if there is no Township in the Parish,
draw a line through Township ; if it is a Township, write
the name of the Township and draw a line through Parish. If
it is Extra-Parochial, draw a line through parish or Township of,
and write Extra-Parochial over those words, and after it the
name.
In the column headed
Place, write the name of the house (if it has a name), or
of the street or other part of the town, or of the village, hamlet, or
extra-parochial place in which it stands, opposite to the mark denoting
each house, or the first house in the street, &c., and write do.
opposite to every other in the same street, &c.
Houses.Insert
houses uninhabited or building in the manner shown in the Example, writing
1 U or 1 B, as the case may be, in the proper
column, opposite to the inhabited house to which each stands nearest.
Every house which is unoccupied at the time of your visit and is believed
not to have been slept in the night before, may be inserted as uninhabited.
New houses, not yet inhabited, may be inserted as Building.
Where there is a row of such houses the total number may be inserted before
the letter B instead of the separate insertion of each.
By House
is meant Dwelling-House ; and every building in which any person habitually
sleeps must be considered as a dwelling-house ; but buildings, such as
churches or warehouses, or any others, which were never used or intended
to be used as dwelling-houses, must not be inserted.
Names of each
Person who abode therein the preceding night.Insert, without
distinction or omission, every living person who abode or slept in each
house. Leave no blank spaces between the names, but enter each immediately
after the one preceding it, so that each page may contain 25. Set down
one after the other those who have the same surname, beginning with the
heads of the family, and put no others between them. As long as the surname
is the same do not repeat it, but write do. Where there are
more Christian names than one, as John William, or Maria
Louisa, write down only the first.
When the person is
a Peer or Peeress, the title may be written instead of the name. The words
Lord, Lady, Sir, Rt Hon.
Hon, may be put before the names of those to whom they belong.
If no Christian name
has been given to an infant write n. k. for not known, as
in the Example.
If, as may happen
in a lodging-house or inn, a person who slept there the night before,
has gone away early and the name is not known, write n. k.
where the name should have been.
At the end of the
names of each family draw a line thus / as in the Example. At the end
of the names of the inmates in each house draw a double line thus //
Age and Sex.Write
the age of each person opposite to the name in one of the two columns
headed Males and Females, according to the sex.
Write the age of every
person under 15 years of age as it is stated to you. For persons aged
15 years and upwards, write the lowest of the term of 5 years within which
the age is.
Thusfor Persons
aged 15 years and under 20 write 15 35 years and under 40 write 35 55
years and under 60 write 55
20 years and under 25 write 20 40 years and under 45 write 40 60 years
and under 65 write 60
25 years and under 30 write 25 45 years and under 50 write 45 65 years
and under 70 write 65
30 years and under 35 write 30 50 years and under 55 write 50 70 years
and under 75 write 70
and so on up to the greatest ages.
If no more can be
ascertained respecting the age of any person than that the person is a
child or is grown up, write under 20, or above 20,
as the case may be.
Profession,
Trade, Employment, or of Independent Means.Men, or widows,
or single women, having no profession or calling, but living on their
means, may be inserted as independent, which may be written shortly, thus
Ind.
The profession, &c,
of wives, or of sons or daughters living with their husbands or parents,
and assisting them, but not apprenticed or receiving wages, need not be
set down.
All persons serving
in Her Majestys Land service as officers or privates in the Line,
Cavalry, Engineers, or Artillery, may be entered as Army,
without any statement of their rank, adding H.P. for Half-Pay,
and P. for Pensioner.
All persons belonging
to Her Majestys Sea service, including Marines, may be entered as
Navy, Adding H.P. for Half-Pay, and P.
for Pensioner.
All domestic servants
may be entered as M.S. for Male Servant, or F.S..
for Female Servant, without statement of their particular duties, as whether
butler, groom, gardener, housekeeper, cook, &c., &c.
Insert all other professions,
trades, or employments, as they are described by the parties, or by others
on their behalf, writing J. for Journeyman, Ap.
for Apprentice, and Sh. for Shopman, after a statement of
the trade of those who are such. Master need not be insterted;
everyone one will be so considered who is not entered as journeyman or
apprentice.
Time may be saved
by writing the following words, shortly thus, M.. for Manufacturer,
m. for Maker, as shoe m. for Shoemaker, Cl.
for Clerk, Ag. Lab. for Agricultural labourer, which may include
all farming servants and labourers in husbandry. Use no other marks or
abbreviations but those herein allowed.
Rank, or any such
terms as Esq. or Gentleman must not be entered
in this column.
Where bornWhether
in the same County.Write opposite to each name (except those
of Irish, Scotch, or Foreigners,) Y. or N. for
Yes or No, as the case may be.
Whether in Scotland,
Ireland, or Foreign parts.Write in this column, S. for
those who were born in Scotland; I. for those born in Ireland;
and F. for Foreigners. This latter mark is to be used only
for those who are subjects of some Foreign State, and not for British
subjects who happen to have been born abroad.
Enter the Totals at
the bottom of each page as in the Example, and enter and add up all the
Totals in the summary in the last page. This may be done at home, and
must be written with ink.
The entries in the
pages of the Enumeration Schedule (except the Totals) may be written with
a pencil, which will be furnished for that purpose. All that is written
in the 3 pages following them must be with ink.
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