> Hi list, I'm currently transcribing the 1841 Census for Hundred of Whitley > and have come across a number of children (under 15) who are listed as > independant. Was this common? Why would they have been listed as > Indepednant? One of them is with a farmer, Vincent Hamblin 25 in Othery, > and her name is Charlotte Lovibond (what a great name) and she is only 7. > There is no one else living in that household. > Just wondering if anyone else has come across this. > Debbie McKay > Sth Australia > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > UK-CENSUS-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Debbie McKay wrote: >>Hi list, I'm currently transcribing the 1841 Census for Hundred of Whitley >>and have come across a number of children (under 15) who are listed as >>independant. Was this common? Why would they have been listed as >>Indepednant? One of them is with a farmer, Vincent Hamblin 25 in Othery, >>and her name is Charlotte Lovibond (what a great name) and she is only 7. >>There is no one else living in that household. She could be a relation. It could be that the enumerator decided to put something down for everyone and if the child wasn't a scholar deemed them to be Independent. Or it could be that was how the household schedules were completed. Perhaps one person was helping a number of others to complete the schedules, hence the consistency. In Walton (which is in the Whitley Hundred) there are only 17 given as Ind. The vast majority of those are upwards of 70 with a handful younger (between 40 and 60). There are a couple of 25 year olds but only one girl (between 15 and 19) and she was living alone. There are no occupations against a great many of the villagers though. It isn't something that's uniform across the whole of the hundred, just the parish within it that you're currently doing. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk