Release Date for 1926 Census !UPDATE!

It's very interesting now to jump back and forth from the 1901/1911/1926 census's and see how things evolved and see what strange arrangements they had in their lives. For instance my granddad 32 at the time on my Dads side got married in 1900 to a 17 year old servant girl in the same household where he was a "farm servant". So by 1926 when he was 57 and she 43 nine children are reported to have been born but only 5 are at the household - the oldest being 15 and the youngest (my Dad) at 2 years old.

Also interesting is that they differentiate between people who speak Irish as their main language vs people who use english as their main language. My 86 year old great great grandmother in 1926 is categorised as having Irish as her first language.

Oh wow!! I just found a child I never heard of. Yikes! The research continues.

Anybody know what DED I should be looking under to bring up Ring St, Inchicore in Dublin? Searching Dublin seems to be a bit of a nightmare if you don't know what DED the location being searched for is in.

Never mind - its in Inchicore A DED.

My great great grandfather was once upon a time a monk. Family lore recalls him jumping the gates of the monastery at Mount Melleray and never looking back. Thank god or I wouldn't be here to type this!

He's head of the house on the 1901 and 1911 census but appears to have died by the time the 1926 census was conducted.

The real mystery concerns my great grandfather. He's on the 1901 census but not the 1911 or 1926 versions. He emigrated to America with another famous family story that he swam across the Hudson before returning home and subsequently married a local woman. Again thank god he decided to return home from America!!! He was married by 1926 but he is not recorded living in the townland even though that's where he was residing (the home place recorded in the previous 2 census) at the time of his death in or around 1960.

So now I'm trying to track him down in 1926 (I have a suspect - waiting for family members to confirm). My grandfather was born in August 1926 so wouldn't be recorded on the census but he had a sister or two who were older than him. Incredibly one of his younger sisters is still alive today.

Edit: I found him :)

Here's the link: https://nationalarchives.ie/collections/search-the-1926-census/

As a 50 year old, it's mad looking at it and seeing that your grandparents were born in the 19th century (I already knew that, but seeing that they were aged 35 and 40 years old 100 years ago is fascinating).

People I went to school with are grandparents, but mine were dead before I was born. No, I'm not looking for a "sorry for your loss". I never knew them.

What made me a little bit sad was the high death rate of children at the time.

I've only looked at my mother's side (my father's father's name is fairly common), and I've already seen two aunts and an uncle who died at a young age. They were born 10 to 17 years before my mother.

Anyway, enjoy your search.

Also, my father's side are from Dublin, so those records are a bit rare.

1% Irish speakers.

Yes, me too …

Several transcription errors which include two wrong birth dates, a missing letter from a Surname and a small address error. I guess with such a big job, transcription errors are bound to happen.

I found my 27 year old grandmother - she was a boarder in a house on Oxmantown Road. I wondered why she was there until I found that the woman of the house was born in the same place in Wexford so they might have been related somewhere along the line.
Another interesting thing was a lady living in my great grand uncle’s house in Leinster Road. She was described as a cousin but her name meant nothing to me. I couldn’t find her in 1901 or 1911 but I did find her in baptism records in 1858 and I saw the connection there in one of her sponsor’s names. Mystery solved. Possibly a second cousin looking at her age.

de Hindeberg bocht!

What should I do if I spot an error in the 1926 Census?

If you notice something in the 1926 Census that looks incorrect, you don’t need to contact us directly. The National Archives is carrying out a structured programme of updates, and any refinements or corrections will be reviewed and added as part of this ongoing process. This approach helps us ensure that improvements are applied consistently across the entire dataset, while allowing our team to focus on completing the remaining transcription and quality‑assurance work for all users.

Possibly an instruction that belongs to the processing of the Census?