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how to find 'agent for gov survey'

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KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 29 Jul 2008 23:52

I hope he had really good handwriting. I hate enumerators whose writing is illegible, lol.

Kath. x

smilerbabeuk

smilerbabeuk Report 29 Jul 2008 22:00

just to let you know - you were right, he was an enumerator of the census.
thanks
jo

smilerbabeuk

smilerbabeuk Report 29 Jul 2008 21:37

thanks

chrisa

chrisa Report 29 Jul 2008 21:35

Jo
If you go on the home page on Ancestry then scroll down to the year you want to check & click.
Then click on the county you want to search.
Then click on which civil parish you want to look at.
Whenyou have the list of enumeration districts click on view discription.

If you want some help just let me know which districts.

smilerbabeuk

smilerbabeuk Report 29 Jul 2008 21:30

sam, do you know how i find the enumerators on ancestry?
thanks
jo

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 29 Jul 2008 21:12

It was only a guess Jo. He could have been surveying anything.

Kath. x

Sam

Sam Report 29 Jul 2008 21:12

If you have Ancestry, check the enumeration district reports and it will tell you who the enumerator was. Try the ones nearest where he lived first.

Sam x

smilerbabeuk

smilerbabeuk Report 29 Jul 2008 21:05

thats smart! i was imagining him surveying some totally unseen colony somewhere. taking the census would make a lot more sense!
thanks
jo

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 29 Jul 2008 21:01

I would think he was definitely a vicar - can't think of anyone else who would be called reverend.

Perhaps he was an enumerator for the census (which is a government survey) and was therefore never at home on census night.

Kath. x

smilerbabeuk

smilerbabeuk Report 29 Jul 2008 20:50

i have a will of an ancestor - david betts - which tells me the person his daughter married. her name was sarah ellen betts, born 1835 in withersfield, suffolk. she married someone who is referred to in the will as the reverend james howard. i have found a marriage record for them in the first quarter 1864 in risbridge, suffolk. i have located her in the next four census' but he is absent from all of them. she is listed as married, not widowed, but he is not there. i have no more details on him. in the 1881 census sarah is listed as 'wife of agent for gov survey'. any ideas what this means or how i can found out? also, does the title reverend mean he was definately a vicar?
thanks for any help
jo, confused!