1911 Online Census.

markok84 · 01-09-2009 12:55AM #1

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 · 01-09-2009 01:00AM

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 · 01-09-2009 01:05AM

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

markok84 · 01-09-2009 01:06AM

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 · 01-09-2009 01:07AM

cherryghost wrote: »

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

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

brummytom · 01-09-2009 01:07AM

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 · 01-09-2009 01:11AM

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 · 01-09-2009 01:12AM

brummytom wrote: »

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

TOTALLY addictive!!!

markok84 · 01-09-2009 01:16AM

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 · 01-09-2009 01:20AM

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

hairyfairy00 · 01-09-2009 01:58AM

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 · 01-09-2009 02:33AM

Is it just 1911?

This_Years_Love · 01-09-2009 02:39AM

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 · 01-09-2009 02:39AM

Wow... Interesting.

Rowley Birkin QC · 01-09-2009 02:57AM

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 · 01-09-2009 08:25AM

I found country relatives :eek:

Clare Bear · 01-09-2009 09:15AM

Very interesting. Thanks OP!

Ghost Train · 01-09-2009 09:19AM

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

TequilaMockingBird · 01-09-2009 09:31AM

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 · 01-09-2009 09:56AM

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 · 01-09-2009 10:34AM

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 · 01-09-2009 11:05AM

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

Corb · 01-09-2009 11:30AM

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

laugh · 01-09-2009 11:38AM

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

ejmaztec · 01-09-2009 11:44AM

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 · 01-09-2009 11:56AM

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 · 01-09-2009 12:00PM

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"

01-09-2009 12:08PM

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ejmaztec · 01-09-2009 12:30PM

<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 · 01-09-2009 12:36PM

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 · 01-09-2009 01:32PM

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

1911 Online Census.

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