1901 census online

aDeener

apologies of this has already been posted, the 1901 census is now available online following the success of the 1911 one. im sure some of you will be interested in this

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

Krusader

Good to know, I've been waiting for this

alwaysadub

can't wait to see this tomorrow when i get home-see if i can shed any light on my great grandfather's life.

Superbus

1901 Census: Awesome.

Times New Roman: Ew. My eyes are vomiting.

deisedevil

Just found my grandfather. 6 months old.

Donkey Oaty

Remember to use the old street names! The system has never heard of "Pearse Street" in Dublin, for example (Great Brunswick Street).

deisedevil

Also, have a look at what Offaly and Laois were called back in those days. Queens county and Kings county.

Superbus

Just found a guy with my ridiculously rare surname (so rare everyone with it is somehow related to me) at my school.

Weird.

mikom

Building your own time machine would be faster as the site is crawling.
Knowledge economy, blah, blah.

deisedevil

mikom wrote: »

Building your own time machine would be faster as the site is crawling.
Knowledge economy, blah, blah.

Loads very fast for me. Must be your internets or your spywares and viruses.

Sea Sharp

My great grand parents had a servant.

mikom

deisedevil wrote: »

Loads very fast for me. Must be your internets or your spywares and viruses.

Faster now........ they must have heard me.

deisedevil

GaNjaHaN wrote: »

My great grand parents had a servant.

So did mine, but don't get too excited, it can mean a lot of things. Like farm labourer or just anyone at all who called to the farm that day to do a bit of work or anything.

JONJO THE MISER

GaNjaHaN wrote: »

My great grand parents had a servant.

Soup Sluper:p

banquo

There were no people with my name in 1901. One born in 1905.

aDeener

banquo wrote: »

There were no people with my name in 1901. One born in 1905.

id say you would find more with your name in a census for scotland :pac:

InTheTrees

We have a really rare surname. It seems every generation only has one or two boys but a whole basketful of girls so its fascinating to see where they've all gone to.

My name is URL

GaNjaHaN wrote: »

My great grand parents had a servant.

lol, mine too. Apparently neither of them could read or write however so I don't know how they managed that!

Eibhin70

This is amazing!!!! My great grandparents had beautiful handwriting, which obviously must have been drilled into them in those days....not like the chicken scrawl today:D

L.Jenkins

Would be useful if they had more current census up. Could create an accurate family history and family tree.

Mike 1972

djhunter30 wrote: »

Would be useful if they had more current census up. Could create an accurate family history and family tree.

Census details of anyone who might still be alive should never be released into the public domain.

As for family trees -theyre all based on the highly dubious assumption that all ones ancestors have been faithful to their spouses.

L.Jenkins

I see your point.

pipelaser

This is brilliant!

Go to the advanced search options and you can search people by "Illness". In the sub category you can search "Idiot" or "Lunatic". Theres heaps of them! And some married with perfectly good jobs!:D

Standard Toaster

Crraaaaaawwwlllllliiinnnnggggg.....was the webserver built in 1901 by any chance?

AckwelFoley

Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

Fcuk you internet provider

AckwelFoley

Geraghty James Britain Street, Mountjoy Dublin

lol. nice one grandpa

thetonynator

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Crraaaaaawwwlllllliiinnnnggggg.....was the webserver built in 1901 by any chance?

see what you mean . . .could have doubled my post count here on this tab in th time its taking to load on the other one . . .:rolleyes:

baldbear

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000059270/

Sorry but this is from 1911 look at the bottom name and details. I nearly collapsed!!!!:p

Mike 1972

pipelaser wrote: »

This is brilliant!

Go to the advanced search options and you can search people by "Illness". In the sub category you can search "Idiot" or "Lunatic". Theres heaps of them! And some married with perfectly good jobs!:D

Plus ca change.......

UpTheSlashers

baldbear wrote: »

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000059270/

Sorry but this is from 1911 look at the bottom name and details. I nearly collapsed!!!!:p

Brilliant, they ignored that he was crossed out http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Inn_s_Quay/Blessington_St_/26988/

pipelaser

baldbear wrote: »

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000059270/

Sorry but this is from 1911 look at the bottom name and details. I nearly collapsed!!!!:p

Mighty!:pac:
Is his name Tatters?

rebel10

Eibhin70 wrote: »

This is amazing!!!! My great grandparents had beautiful handwriting, which obviously must have been drilled into them in those days....not like the chicken scrawl today:D

Funny cause when i was researching my family years ago I was told that the beautiful handwriting i was looking at was more than likely that of a census officer as many would have been illiterate, so they did much of the writing. That is why so many surnames have been entered incorrectly, i.e. missing the "O", either that or they had taken the soup.

AckwelFoley

Residents of a house 24.7 in Clarence Street (South Dock, Dublin)

Dawson Thomas 40

Dawson Rose 40 Female Wife Roman Catholic Lucan, Co Dublin Schol Read and write - Married - - - -
Dawson Mary 14 Female Daughter Roman Catholic Dublin City Scholar Read and write - Single - - - -
Dawson Julia 13 Female Daughter Roman Catholic Dublin City Scholar Read and write - Single - - - -
Dawson Rose 11 Female Daughter Roman Catholic Dublin City Scholar Read and write - Single - - - -
Dawson Thomas 6 Male Son Roman Catholic

My Grandmother, she died nearly 20 years before i was born

Ban Ki Moon

Some might find it usefull

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

KeithM89_old

Yup:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055929850

Kivaro

Yeah, it was posted earlier, or maybe the day before.
When I tried to get on the site, it timed out because of the number of users already on it.

I eventually got on it and it really rocks. My parents are learning about family that they did not even hear about as kids.

amybabes

Found my maternal great grand partners and it was the mirror image of my writing and my grand mother's writing (she was born in 1926 so not included in either census)
SPOOKY!

Also my paternal great grand parent's had 2 servants - a maid and a 'nurse' - wish we had kept that tradition up!!

Eibhin70

rebel10 wrote: »

Funny cause when i was researching my family years ago I was told that the beautiful handwriting i was looking at was more than likely that of a census officer as many would have been illiterate, so they did much of the writing. That is why so many surnames have been entered incorrectly, i.e. missing the "O", either that or they had taken the soup.

Well, I also checked their neighbours in the parish and they all have different handwriting.....so I guess they had a good teacher down the country

Eibhin70

baldbear wrote: »

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000059270/

Sorry but this is from 1911 look at the bottom name and details. I nearly collapsed!!!!:p

That is feckin' hilarious....I bet that dog was loved....a member of the family:)

brummytom

I doubt anyone knows - but are 'Bealanageary' and 'Ballingeary', County Cork the same place? I'd assume so, but don't know.


Very interesting, though. Thanks

aDeener

brummytom wrote: »

I doubt anyone knows - but are 'Bealanageary' and 'Ballingeary', County Cork the same place? I'd assume so, but don't know.


Very interesting, though. Thanks

hmm well theres a problem there as either could be small townlands or a different way of spelling the one placename as is very common throughout rural ireland. there is certainly a bealanageary in macroom, and ballingeary is a part of the gaeltacht. id imagine they are 2 different places

owenc

GaNjaHaN wrote: »

My great grand parents had a servant.

My great great grand father was a stone mason and made his cousin be his servant!

owenc

aDeener wrote: »

id say you would find more with your name in a census for scotland :pac:

naw the surname was likely translated. its more than likely irish.

owenc

baldbear wrote: »

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000059270/

Sorry but this is from 1911 look at the bottom name and details. I nearly collapsed!!!!:p

funny that the surname is cullen aswell.

Jimbo

brummytom wrote: »

I doubt anyone knows - but are 'Bealanageary' and 'Ballingeary', County Cork the same place? I'd assume so, but don't know.


Very interesting, though. Thanks

Yep, same place. The english spelling of some nameplaces change down the years.

You can see the historic map of the place here: http://ims0.osiemaps.ie/website/publicviewer/main.aspx#V1,514926,567154,6

Kivaro

Eibhin70 wrote: »

That is feckin' hilarious....I bet that dog was loved....a member of the family:)

Ah, that's so funny.
But did you notice under the Read/Write question, the respondent put 'Cannot Read', so the question is:
Can the dog write?

Mike 1972

Kivaro wrote: »

Ah, that's so funny.
But did you notice under the Read/Write question, the respondent put 'Cannot Read', so the question is:
Can the dog write?

Interestingly the dog appears to have been an atheist

skepticalone

some excellent photos on there tho ...

Krusader

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Interestingly the dog appears to have been an atheist

So he went to Doggy Hell

Mike 1972

You mean Not all dogs go to heaven ???

ejmaztec

As I suspected, my ancestors arrived on a spaceship between 1901 and 1911, because there was no sign of them before.:(

It's gratifying to know that there were 1464 idiots in Ireland in 1901, and only 1116 in 1911. Some of them must have emigrated to Australia.