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i found him on the 1881 census as potolie and the 1871 census as pochin...i've sent off for his marriage certificate so hopefully this will shed some light on his fathers name,thanks nicola.

Which census (ED23) do you think you found him?

i have a address of little lever street ancoats manchester,but we also have a name change which is potolie,i'm trying to find a natralization for james as on another search it says he was a natralized citizan as he's from Italy oringinally..we have also found the spelling of the name,pochi,pochr,...its all so confusing!!

Registration district is where you register births, deaths & marriages & they are split up into Sub-registration districts such as Ancoats. Each registration district was split into Enumeration Districts for the census and was covered by each enumerator. 23 is the number of the enumeration district.

What is it you want to find out? Exactly where the address is?

Ozi.

Registration district: Manchester
Sub-registration district: Ancoats
ED, institution, or vessel: 23............does this mean the street of ancoats where they was at the time of the census? thanks..

thanks i'll have another look at the information..

vessel means he was on board a vessel on census night if you go back through the pages then you should see the start of the listing which will give the name of the vessel .Could be a fishing boat or Navy

If you think it is an institution, you can find out what institution it is from Ancestry by going to the image, and at the top of the screen will be the source of the image. Click on the next level down, and it should lead you to a description of the institution.

I am not very good at desbribing this as Ancestty have recently changed their screen, but if you cant find it, give us the details and I am sure someone will do so for you.

Margaret

thanks so its just the area of town it was registered..

ED - enumerator district

This is the information collected by one man for a particular area.

If you look at the ED description for the particular census it will show all the road, streets etc that he collected the census info from

Hi,i've found the census records i need for my gg grandad but on it is....... ED, institution, or vessel.....i do'nt understand what it means can anyone shed any light on wot it means,thanks...