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1851 Census (Robinson)

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Linda

Linda Report 17 Feb 2011 14:17

Hello Everyone,
Can anyone help me please. I have downloaded the above census piece 2360 folio 122 page 18.
William Robinson aged 45
Jane Robinson 40
Jarvis (Tarfus) 14
William 8
Samuel 9 months

Does anyone know what the App 14-2 next to Jarvis (Tarfus) occupation means?

Any help appreciated.
Linda

Chris in Sussex

Chris in Sussex Report 17 Feb 2011 14:22

App - Probably means apprentice. Shame it doesn't specify apprentice of what.

14 - 2 is written in a different hand and pen. Probably made when the enumeration sheets were used to extract info for statistical analysis.

Chris

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Heather

Heather Report 17 Feb 2011 20:15

Interestingly, someone on ancestry has made a correction to the name saying it should be Gervase?

Gervase rather than Tarfus
This is my great grandfather and his name is Gervase Robinson born in Hook, Yorkshire 1837. Hook is a district of Goole, Yorkshire.
Submitted by adnil48

But yes, app is apprentice - check the next census to see if he qualified :)

Linda

Linda Report 19 Feb 2011 16:56

Hello Heather,

It was me who altered the name Tarfus to Gervase (Jarvis). Both his parents could not read or write and I expect with the country accent the enumerator took Jarvis for Tarfus (It was actually Gervase) but he was always called Jarvis.

He enrolled in the 5th Dragoon Guards sometime after 1851 as he is on Furlough 1-30 Dec in Manchester in 1858.. He left the Dragoon Guards in 1872 in York at his own request. After that he completely disappears. I cannot find a death for him or his wife Mary Ann (Loughead) whom he married in Ireland in 1865. Their daughter Jane Ann Elizabeth Robinson born Aldershot Barracks in 1868 married my grandfather James Robert Gardiner in Hull in 1887. On the marriage cert it states Gervase Robinson Soldier deceased. I cannot find the whole family on the 1881 census either.
Thanks for your help.
Linda