Monday 21 February 2011

Fucking census

Name; age; place of birth; relation to householder.

That's all that was collected in the old census. I've looked up my family tree using the released censii (?), and found it useful. Both mothers-in-law were living in the houses of my father's grandfathers, which allowed me to follow the maternal lines back to their towns of birth. My great-grandfather was working as a postie in Marylebone in 1871 I also discovered, so I guess I don't begrudge the census completely...

But 31 pages? Fuck off.

Hat tip: Calling England

2 comments:

William said...

https://p10.secure.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/spyblog/2011/02/09/the-census-2011-media-hype-is-starting-to-ramp-up.html

Well worth a butchers.

Trooper Thompson said...

Thanks, I'm checking it now.