Surely in 1841+ many of the house occupiers would have been illiterate, so could not fill in the forms themselves? Richard -----Original Message----- From: Nivard Ovington via Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 9:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NFK] 1861 census place - Henry Sillett Hi Jean Unless I interpret your comments wrongly? >From 1841 to 1911 the census in England and Wales was conducted by leaving a schedule with the householder, to be filled in by them and collected after the census day, that schedule was then transcribed by the enumerator for 1841 to 1901, what we see today is the enumerators transcription (household schedules were destroyed) In 1911 they used new machinery to take information directly from the schedules and therefore enumerator transcription was unnecessary so the pages we see are in the householders own hand (or whoever they got to do it) they are also signed by the householder Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 23/07/2014 08:49, STANGROOM JEAN via wrote: > 1911 is the first census filled in by the householder all previous census > were filled in by a enumerater > you can see his name on the first page of each schedule. > > Lots of villages had schools mostly run by the church or a benefactor of > the village possibly the Lord of the Manor > if you read "The Children of Booton" by Launa Gray available from the NFHS > it gives you a clear understanding how > these schools worked for farming families. > > Jean ------------------------------- 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