1911 Online Census.

markok84

I found a link to the online census on the history and heritage forum. Very interesting stuff I've spent the last three hours enthralled by it, I found my great grand parents entry for the census, AND!!!!


after a bit of snooping, I found Éamon De Valera's entry in the census with his wife Sinead and son Vivion!!!


http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000124143/

Granted he wasn't very hard to find but I'm still fairly chuffed.


So who can you find?

Escapism

I was looking at that a few weeks back, a bit addictive!! I even looked up Michael Collins but turns out he was in London at the time! ...

I found all my grandparents and great grandparents and their familes BUT i also found out that my grandad on my Mam's side was .... a lovechild, back in 1888, bit of a scandal in that time but he ended up happily married and had 9 children

cherryghost

eamonns servant couldnt read? well theres a turnout for the books

markok84

Ya I think the big fella was workin' as a clerk in a post office in London at the time. He left Ireland in 1910.

Interestingly enough I found my Great grandparents and their families on my mothers side but haven't found a tap on the fathers side, they mustn't have bothered fillin' out the forms.

markok84

cherryghost wrote: »

eamonns servant couldnt read? well theres a turnout for the books

His 3 month old son couldn't read either:pac:

brummytom

I tried to look for my real great-grandma, who abandoned my nan, but I'm not sure which part of Dublin she was from

Looking for some more family now - it's addictive!

Escapism

markok84 wrote: »

Interestingly enough I found my Great grandparents and their families on my mothers side but haven't found a tap on the fathers side, they mustn't have bothered fillin' out the forms.

It's only online for a certain number of counties yet so they mightn't be online yet Markok84 !!

Escapism

brummytom wrote: »

Looking for some more family now - it's addictive!

TOTALLY addictive!!!

markok84

Escapism wrote: »

It's only online for a certain number of counties yet so they mightn't be online yet Markok84 !!

Maybe, I thought 500 entries in Cork for the name was a bit low. Having said that I reckon not filling out the form is a viable reason too, the lazy b..........

Euro_Kraut

Its mad -in the drop down menu you can select 'Kings County and Queen County'. Easy to forget they had other names.

hairyfairy00

My great-grand father was a magistrate, coroner and a GP (busy guy), he also had 3 domestic servants to help take care of the 9 children!

truecrippler

Is it just 1911?

This_Years_Love

I checked out my great-grandparents on that site and they were loaded!! They had tons of servants (well 15 but to me thats a lot) so they really must have had a lot of money. The question is: What the fcuk happened to all that money???

truecrippler

Wow... Interesting.

Rowley Birkin QC

Damn you Mark, I was just about to go to sleep but came back to AH to see was anything worth reading.

That was an hour and a half ago. Ridiculously addictive stuff, even recorded the stock levels on our family farm back in the day.

Thankfully none of the family I've found so far were listed as "lunatics".

Pal

I found country relatives :eek:

Clare Bear

Very interesting. Thanks OP!

Ghost Train

William B Yeats & Lady Gregory, Augusta
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000209724/

TequilaMockingBird

I found an entry which has a Landed Gentry type couple in their 60's with a guest. Religon is listed as "brethren" and under the guests amount of children he has "don't know".

Ghost Train

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000192850/
Age 27, 8 children, 1 living

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000223689/
Incandescent boy.... does he play with lightbulbs or something?

ciagr297

so highly addictive....been on the phone with my dad trying to figure out which family was belonging to us (numerous hits for my surname)
looks like i am occupied for the day in work then:D

Rowley Birkin QC

We had two servants back in the day, 21st Century progress me arse!

Corb

Can someone please help me on how to use this? Anything I type in no results come up

laugh

My Great Great grand-mother was 98 at the time :eek:

ejmaztec

Corb wrote: »

Can someone please help me on how to use this? Anything I type in no results come up

I tried looking for Hitler as well, but he obviously wasn't here, nor was Genghis Khan.:eek:

Ghost Train

Corb wrote: »

Can someone please help me on how to use this? Anything I type in no results come up

maybe eircom is blocking it :pac:

put in surname, hit search and you should get results

Corb

Ghost Train wrote: »

maybe eircom is blocking it :pac:

put in surname, hit search and you should get results

No. It says "No documents with no instances"

Heisenberg.

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ejmaztec

<snigger snigger>

Had to be one, didn't there?

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/results.jsp?surname=kuntz&firstname=&county=&townland=&ded=&age=&sex=&submit=Search

bluto63

Interesting, on the left of the page, it says to write in Irish if you can only spek Irish, English & Irish if you can speak both, or leave blank if otherwise. So back then was there not many people who could only speak English?

Escapism

I think its deadly that I can see my great grandfathers writing!!! sadly i found no rich relatives .... there goes the dream

bluto63

My grandparents managed to mess up on pretty much every box on the form...

chillywilly

James Connolly and his family:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Pembroke_West/Lotts_Road__South/10339/

he lists his birthplace as Monaghan but he was actually born in Scotland!

Riddle101

Found Thomas J Clarke and family

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Drumcondra/St__Patrick_s_Road/28246/

ejmaztec

Found a Bastard in Coleraine, who was a nun.:eek:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/results.jsp?surname=bastard&firstname=&county=&townland=&ded=&age=&sex=&submit=Search

GeeNorm

OP you chancer:)

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2007/1204/1196713197386.html

Euro_Kraut

Count John McCormack

markok84

GeeNorm wrote: »

OP you chancer:)

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2007/1204/1196713197386.html

Oh you found me out. :rolleyes:

It's actually easier to find Dev's census entry than finding that article from 2007, besides like I read the Irish Times!!!

Ghost Train

Prisoners in mountjoy,
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Inn_s_Quay/Mountjoy_Prison/18162/

ShooterSF

"If Deaf and Dumb; Dumb only; Blind; Imbecile or Idiot; or Lunatic:" If that was still there how many of us would sneakily mark family members as Lunatics or Idiots?

Ghost Train

This seems kind of bad, job titles "laundress"... uses the prison form, under crime it says "not committed", no other info

Edit: found more info on this place, The Good Shepherd Magdalen Laundry Cork
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRbdJ3npAHA

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Cork_No__4_Urban__part_of_/Carrignaveigh/389625/

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai001863835/

bigkev49

bigkev49 wrote: »

That was an hour and a half ago. Ridiculously addictive stuff, even recorded the stock levels on our family farm back in the day.

Where did you find stock?

Mizu_Ger

Found my Da's grandparents house. His Mother was 3 at the time and they had a 90 year old lodger in the house with them. He's listed as a farm labourer. WTF is a 90 year old doing labouring on a farm?

Are they going to this for any more census?

El Siglo

Michael Collins (I hate Fine Gael but I had to see what he was up to in 1911).

ScissorPaperRock

Escapism wrote: »

I think its deadly that I can see my great grandfathers writing!!! sadly i found no rich relatives .... there goes the dream

Maybe I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure these forms were filled in by people going from house to house. I don't think it was the homeowners themselves.

I've been looking at census information from 1901 and 1911 over the Summer for work and a lot of the forms have the same handwriting.

tba

Scien wrote: »

Same happened for me, then i 'browsed by place' until i found my Town & street name. Found my Great Grandfathers gaff complete with 4 Childers & a servant from Tipperrary.

The PDFs are great. Fair play to the National Archives for putting them up. Must have been a royal pain in the bottom scanning Thousands of Documents like that.


Edit: Nice to see James Joyce had some Cork Blood in him!

Thats a 1901 census return! Where did you find that?!

lucylu

I think they are still updating the 1901 Census online. The 1911 census was well preserved.
The next cenus was not until 1926

Old census returns are valuable historical and genealogical records. Unfortunately, the returns for 1813, 1821, 1831, 1841 and 1851 censuses were destroyed when the Custom House was burned in 1922.

The 1861 and 1871 census returns were deliberately destroyed. The 1881 and 1891 census returns were pulped because of the paper shortages during the 1914-18 War. Of the pre-Independence censuses only the 1901 and 1911 census returns remain intact today.

The 1901 and 1911 censuses were undertaken under legislation which made no provision for the confidentiality of the information recorded on them. These were made available as public records in 1961 via a warrant made by the Minister for Justice under the Public Records (Ireland) Act, 1867. They are the most frequently used records in the National Archives mainly for genealogical research.

Visit the National Archives site: www.nationalarchives.ie/censusrtns.html

The extensive use of the 1901 and 1911 census records and the public acceptability of their availability after 50-60 years prompted the inclusion of a provision in the Statistics Act, 1993 which allows census returns to be made available as public records 100 years after the relevant census.

This means that the 1926 census records will be open to the public by the National Archives in the year 2026. By that time almost all of the persons covered in the 1926 census will be deceased. Although there was demand for a shorter period it was considered that 100 years was necessary to comply with the spirit of confidentiality promised to respondents.

ScissorPaperRoc

ScissorPaperRoc wrote: »

Maybe I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure these forms were filled in by people going from house to house. I don't think it was the homeowners themselves.

I've been looking at census information from 1901 and 1911 over the Summer for work and a lot of the forms have the same handwriting.

I think it would depend on the census taker.
One of the forms handwriting is sooooo bad it looks just like mine. That has to be genetics.

One of my greatgrandmothers kept Roscommon people as domestic slaves. :eek:

Jeanious

Jaysus, in that prison one: "If deaf and dumb, dumb only, blind, lame, decrepit"....PC brigade my ar$e!

I thought that a lot of the handwriting looks the same alright, but mother of jaysus, that'd be a labour-intensive way of doing it wouldnt it? Maybe they all just had similar writing back in the day?!

Actually i just checked a couple of returns, and the signature of the Head of the Family is the same as the actual writing on the form.

Beside the "enumerator's signature" it says something to the effect of "i state this form is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge"...sure how would he know if its true and accurate...by searching the house and questioning everyone?!!

Either way, seriously interesting find OP!

dlofnep

Awesome, thanks. Gunna do a bit of research now as soon as me ma gets back.

pickarooney

I can't read anything on those PDFs. The whole thing seems a little pointless too.