Ian Thirlwell wrote >she's at the same address, in Bury Road, as a Mary Blackman, whose age >is given as 40 and who is a female servant. These two are within the >same pair of double dashes in the enumerator's book, so in the same >house, and are separated by a single dash, so in different households. I have often found that members of the same household, where not of the same family, are often separated by the single dash in the 1841 Census. In this case, looking at how the enumerator has marked "do" for each following household in Bury Road, at how he has indicated "1" for each occupied house and at the fact that there is no double dash at the foot of the previous page, I believe that the complete household comprised 6 people, 3 of whom are on the previous page: Rebecca Willie, 50, Independent Isabella Powney, 25, Independent Isabella Eliza Powney, 2 Eliza Hevens, 24, Female Servant Mary Blackman, 40, Female Servant Susan Johnson, 12 It's not unreasonable to suppose that the first 3 are Grandmother, Mother and Daughter and it's quite probable that Susan was also a servant. -- Jenny M Benson

But there's a double dash between Eliza Stevens (NB not Hevens) and Mary Blackman plus a separate 1 for occupied house. Mary and Susan are not in the same house as Eliza and the previous individuals. The previous house is occupied from Rebecca Willie down to Eliza Stevens, as indicated by the double dashes and occupied house indicators. Cheers, Ian Jenny M Benson wrote: > Ian Thirlwell wrote > >> she's at the same address, in Bury Road, as a Mary Blackman, whose age >> is given as 40 and who is a female servant. These two are within the >> same pair of double dashes in the enumerator's book, so in the same >> house, and are separated by a single dash, so in different households. >> > > I have often found that members of the same household, where not of the > same family, are often separated by the single dash in the 1841 Census. > > In this case, looking at how the enumerator has marked "do" for each > following household in Bury Road, at how he has indicated "1" for each > occupied house and at the fact that there is no double dash at the foot > of the previous page, I believe that the complete household comprised 6 > people, 3 of whom are on the previous page: > > Rebecca Willie, 50, Independent > Isabella Powney, 25, Independent > Isabella Eliza Powney, 2 > Eliza Hevens, 24, Female Servant > Mary Blackman, 40, Female Servant > Susan Johnson, 12 > > It's not unreasonable to suppose that the first 3 are Grandmother, > Mother and Daughter and it's quite probable that Susan was also a > servant. >

Ian Thirlwell wrote >But there's a double dash between Eliza Stevens (NB not Hevens) and >Mary Blackman plus a separate 1 for occupied house. Mary and Susan are >not in the same house as Eliza and the previous individuals. The >previous house is occupied from Rebecca Willie down to Eliza Stevens, >as indicated by the double dashes and occupied house indicators. I take your point, but I think in this particular instance it's very difficult to be sure exactly what the arrangement was. It would certainly be very usual to find a family of Independent Means with living-in Servants, and *perhaps* a little less usual to find 3 unrelated people, all Servants, living together. I do think the OP should try and get a look at the image and form his/her own opinion. I just offered an opinion. -- Jenny M Benson