1911 Online Census.

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!

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

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?

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.

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.

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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.

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!

Does anyone know where you can look at a a census from a later year? I don't even know the names of my parents' grandparents so I can't look them up on the 1911 one!

How many years have to pass before a census can be made public?

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.