Thanks to all for the info and explanation. The bit that intrigued me was that all the added comments were an expansion of or related to the shown definition. I just couldn't see the connection between working in a college and "club". Perhaps there were so few that the need wasn't seen for a special category. As my Norfolk granddad was wont to say, "The man who has finished learning is dead" Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Drage" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 1:02 AM Subject: Re: [NFK] Neeed an expert > You can find details such as survice of the instructions to both > enumerator, and abstractor here: > > http://histpop.org/ > > If you then click on Browse (at the top), then on the page that appears, > TNA census - other, on the left hand side, then select on the page that > appears the row for the 1891 census for England and Wales. > > Here you will find the instructions for the enumerator, the registrar, the > superintendent registrar and the abstracting clerks at the census office > (and also examples of all the various forms). > > The rear of the household schedule contains the initial set of > instructions for the filling in the the occupation column. > > This is to be checked by the enumerator, and the enumerator was then > expected to take correct the household schedule in a particular manner, by > crossing out. As the completed household schedules for 1891 have not > survived, this will not be able to be detected. > > The enumerator then completed the enumeration book (these are the > documents we currently have as the census). He then sent that to the > registrar. Thus any of the additional marks do not belong to the > enumerator. > > As far as I can understand, while the registrar did some checking of both > household schedule and enumeration book, this was only to ascertain that > th profession had been filled in in accordance. > > From thence, the household schedules went direct to the census office, and > the enumeration book to the superintendent registrar. > > The superintendent did some further partial and limited check of the > enumeration book, but again this does not go beyond checking the details > are in conformance with the instructions on the back of the household > schedule. > > The enumeration books were then sent to the census office. > > At the census office various clerks acted as abstractor of the > professions, and at this point had to identify the occupations and > professions into a number of distinct classes. As such I believe the mark > you indicate would have been included by the abstractor, rather than any > of the previous officials, as this is above and beyond the instructions on > the rear of the household schedule. > > Note that some of the pages at this location are damaged, and the full > list of professions at the end is therefore incomplete. I was therefore > unable to check that it was correct to assign a "college servant" to the > "club" category. It would certainly have been incorrect to class them as > domestic servants. > > regards > > Keith Drage > Swindon UK > > > On 14/05/2014 12:31, Dudley Diaper wrote: >> Nivard is right, the local checker used to write a standard term under >> occupation if the enumerator's description didn't fit the standard >> categories, to make the collection of statistics easier. So you may >> notice >> anyone entered as a Teacher will have "School" added, an errand boy may >> have >> "Porter" in another handwriting, etc. Many servants will have "Dom" added >> to >> remind that they should be counted under Domestic Servants. >> >> You may sometimes see a number added, too. In 1881, for example, an 059 >> was >> someone in "Club or College Service" >> >> All the best >> Dudley >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> On >> Behalf Of Bob Rust >> Sent: 14 May 2014 11:11 >> To: Norfolk >> Subject: [NFK] Neeed an expert >> >> Strictly not Norfolk but next door. >> I am transcribing 1891 Cambridge. >> In the Profession or Occupation column a college employee is shown, i.e. >> "college servant" , "college bedmaker" et al. >> Wherever this appears, at some later time has been written "Club" against >> the entry in an entirely different hand. >> I am curious as to why. Any of the learned listers able to help? >> >> Regards >> >> Bob >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > >