Shirley, The very short answer to your question re age on the census is that it is given - a longer explanation and comments on the Belfast 1901 census follow, if you feel like reading it! The 1901 census gives the following Name & Surname ; Relationship to Head of Household ; Religious Profession (i.e. religion); Education (i.e. read and write, or either, neither ; Age ; Sex ; Rank, Prifession or Occupation ; Marriage (married or single) ; Where Born ( county or country if not Ireland ; and then there is a finall column that would be filled ni if th person suffered from any physical ailment such as deaf etc. The 1911 census differs in one respect, that is, the number of years for the marriage is given and there are two more columns, the numer of children born alive is given in one and the number of children still living is given in the other. The information above is given on 'Form A' of the census - that is the form filled out by the Head of Household on the night. The Enumerators sheets are found at the front of any set of forms for a street or townland and sometimes, people tend to ignore this sheet, homing in only on the family that they are most interested in. Form Nis the Enumerator's Absrtact for a street or townland and that's pretty basic, no names, just the numbers of the Houses or Form A's and a breakdown on males, females and religion. Form B1 - another Enumerator's sheet and the one I use when creating an index gives you much more information and it's a pity people ignore it or, don't think it tells you much except that name and the number of the Form A that you'll find the information on. Form B1 gives details in relation to the house itself, what kind of roof, what the walls were made of, how many windows on the house and depending on these, the house is then classified as being 1st, 2nd, 3rd class house. It also tells you the name of the 'Landholder' - which if it is different from that of the Head of Household means that the house was leased or there was ground rent to be paid. Sorry for going on about what's on the census. I began indexing Belfast when it dawned on me how badly organised or copied the Enumerator sheets are on the films. Many Enumerator sheets just haven't been filmed and when you're new to this particular set of films you can miss tons - because, you see an enumerator sheet and it has 17 names/entries on it, and you assume that's the number of houses there are on that street - *BUT* that may not be the case, the second and third enumerator sheets may not have been filmed - maybe it was because of carelessness on the part of those filming, or else, those sheets may simply be missing. Streets canbe broken up - one side being in one parish, the other in another - and the second set of information may be on a totally different place in the film - or, on another film altogether. The same kind of thing can happen and does happen in other cities, so I can't say theBelfast films are on their own in that. It's only lately that I've come to realise that the LDS film numbers are on those films that they have copies of, our Dublin ref numbers are totally different - and I am trying to include those on my site. Jane X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 16:44:51 -0400 >From: "S D Holland" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [BELFAST] Belfast, Co. Down 1901 Census Heads of Household Index Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jane: On the Ireland census does it give ages? Grandpa Fred Holland who came to USA in 1904 had a brother William Holland who I have been unable to find past his birth date.