I'm with Scotland'sPeople and they just got very excited about something they found in the S. Uist Scotland 1841 census and I thought I'd share it with you. it states on page 22(?) (there's a spot next to the 22 that might be a blurred number, with this reference; 06/06/1841 Nicolson, Petter, (Census 1841 113/00 001/00 011) Forward 1 the Petter is "sic", as written. "The greater part of the population of North Uist are employed in Agriculture and the manufacture of Kelp, very few can be said to be in the habit of moving from their ordinary place of Residence. It is supposed cannot have been more than thirty individuals or there abouts absent from the parish on Monday the seventh. The has been no Emigration from the parish for the last six months, but for some years past about 300 souls have annually Emigrated from the Island of Cape-Breton Nova Scotia. There will be about the same number going from the different Districts of the Parish in the month of July next. The at the beginning of the second section is "sic", as written there are two things of note. the writer was exceptionally literate, the spelling of the notes are exactly the same which we use today, and it is extremely unusual to find such notes in the census-I've found two myself, one pertaining to the 1841 Cape Breton census, where a census taker exploded in frustration and quit his job-apparently the scattered residents among the hills and mountains generally wouldn't respond to his questions and were difficult to find, and the other was amongst church records, when a body was hidden in the shale on the beach of Suffolk, England but soon disappeared. so some interesting notes show up occasionally in the records-actually I found two others-a clerk practicing his lettering on an ancestor's marriage record, and something which I no longer recall among Dutch records...besides the predicate noting church finances between baptisms and visa versa... best, Cornelia Medford, OR BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }