1871 & 1891 Scottish Censuses on Ancestry.com! .....

Susanna · Post by **Susanna** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:34 am

I chuckle getting ready to post this message given the furor I started last time... but here goes...

Ancestry.com posted the 1871 & 1891 censuses today. I haven't attempted to find any of my family yet, but I trust we'll find many, many more examples of "OCR Madness"!

Post by **SarahND** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:07 am

Hi Susanna,
See this thread from earlier today:
http://talkingscot.com/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=

I had not received any notice from ancestry about the censuses (in fact, I got an email about other databases, but it only said the Scottish ones were "coming soon"!), but ended up finding a precocious 2 yr old in the 1871

Have fun with these new censuses (I am right now!)

Sarah

P.S. What I did find from today's ancestry email was the Kansas state censuses, and there was my gr gr grandfather, who spent most of his life dodging censuses-- and got caught in Osage County in 1875!

heymarky · Post by **heymarky** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:17 am

SarahND wrote:
P.S. What I did find from today's ancestry email was the Kansas state censuses, and there was my gr gr grandfather, who spent most of his life dodging censuses-- and got caught in Osage County in 1875!

And there's my gr gr grandpa Hugh in Chautauqua county

He's in Joplin, Missouri in 1880 and 1900, always assumed he was in Joplin all a long!

You probably noticed, but there seem to be 3 pages for each person (at least in 1895 there are 3), only 2 of which show up in each scan. (Nothing on the third page for me

)

Post by **SarahND** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:34 pm

The 1875 only has one page

But the pages are wider and it asks for the same info as the first two pages of the 1895!

What I would dearly like to see, however, is a Missouri State census in the _5 years. Do you know if there was one and if we're likely to ever see it?

Cheers

Sarah

Post by **SarahND** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:25 pm

What I need to help break down a giant brickwall is a census between 1888 & 1900 in Missouri. Looks like they didn't do one. Oh well.
Regards,
Sarah

April · Post by **April** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:37 am

Well the 1871 census has given me another unintelligible occupation for Andrew Angus of Edinburgh:
1851 Clerk Property & Incena Fax
1861 Iron Court of Chancey
1871 Macer Court Of Chamery And Marche Prepenty & Woman Jan Office

Maybe he was the inventor of the fax machine

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:57 am

April wrote:Well the 1871 census has given me another unintelligible occupation for Andrew Angus of Edinburgh:
1851 Clerk Property & Incena Fax
1861 Iron Court of Chancey
1871 Macer Court Of Chamery And Marche Prepenty & Woman Jan Office
Maybe he was the inventor of the fax machine

In 1871 this should be.....

"Macer Court of Chancery and
extra clerk Property & Income Tax Office"

The "extra" ain't that easy to decipher but everything else is so clear that I'm at a complete loss to know how a human being could read the rest in such an "interesting" and so different manner

See http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... ?pos=-1118

David

April · Post by **April** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:48 am

Thanks David - that makes more sense especially as his son was a clerk with inland tax.
I suppose then that "incena fax" would be inland tax .
Also, if a real person had looked at the image he is obviously 74, not a 14 year old husband of a 60 year old woman.
April

PS

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:54 am

April wrote:Thanks David - that makes more sense especially as his son-in-law was a clerk with inland tax.
I suppose then that "incena fax" would be inland tax .
April

More likely to be income.

1861 should be "Macer Court of Chancery"

David

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:13 am

.....snipped...........Also, if a real person had looked at the image he is obviously 74, not a 14 year old husband of a 60 year old woman.

That form of a figure one is open to misinterpretation, but, as you say, a human being might query 14 as the age of the husband

Another mistranscription then for the son in law.

What son-in-law?, 26 yr old George is shown as "son/visitor".

David