General Chat

1921 Census is now available on Ancestry.

Going to be a late night.

Fill up your flask and get some sandwiches :-D

Thanks Mr M :-)

I found my father and his parents easily. It took me ages on FMP as the surname had been badly mistranscribed :-0

Not available until tomorrow - 7th Jan.

Thanks Mr. M :-D

I'm going to be busy!

just found a family member, but now got to work out why she is 'Step-daughter' :-S

ArgyllGran
I couldn't see a particular place to click to search, so just filled in the name I wanted to see and filled in 1921 in the date option.

Thanks, Gwyn - yes, I see now that the 1921 census is listed among 1920s census and ER options on the census search page, although not yet in the list of censuses on the home page.

It's there under "Search all records" when England 1921 census comes up top right of the page i'm looking at

OR under Card Catalogue" when you get the choice of 1921 for England of Wales or channel Islands or Isle of Man as the top 4 results.

Under "Census and electoral rolls" you need to scroll to the bottom of the list of data collections to get the 1921 options

I am unable to find my Grandmother on it, she had my Mum 1923, am I missing something?

Without more details, ZZzzz, it's impossible to say.
Have you considered that her name might be mistranscribed or mis-spelled?

Have you checked the marriage date with the actual date of the census?
Have you looked for both her married name and her maiden name?

nameslessone. my Grandmother was unmarried when she had my Mum, well I haven't found a marriage for her, also there is no Father on Mums birth cert, all she ever said is that he was a business from Reading, she and my Grandmother were both born in Newcastle England.
Business man. DOH.

If you like to tell us your grandmother's name and DOB, we'll be happy to have a look for her in 1921.

ArgyllGran. Thank you, my Grandmother is Esther Archer Nelson, she was born 1901 in Newcastle England, and died 1985 in Australia. my Mum was born 1923 Newcastle.

Could this be her - initials only for her names.

E A Nelson in 1921
1921 Census Of England & Wales
40, Falconar Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
name Relationship to head Sex Birth year Age in years Birth place Occupation Employer
Stephen Nelson Head Male 1859 62 Yorkshire, England Passenger Guard North Eastern Railway
Caroline Nelson Wife Female 1866 55 Durham, Durham, England Household Duties At Home
S W Nelson Son Male 1890 31 Northumberland, England Goods Loaded North Eastern Railway
Stephen Nelson Son Male 1896 25 Percy Main, Northumberland, England Fitter H Whitson & Son
E A Nelson Daughter Female 1901 19 Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland, England Office Cleaniner -
Annie Nelson Daughter-in-law Female 1893 28 Durham, England Household Duties At Home
James Nelson Grandson Male 1920 1 Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland, England - -
Sybil Jackson Visitor Female 1904 17 Willington, Durham, England Private 6 Victroia Square

Yes, that will be her.

As confirmation, there's more of her name given in 1911:

E Archer Nelson
in the 1911 England Census
.Name E Archer Nelson
Age in 1911 9
Estimated Birth Year abt 1902
Relation to Head Daughter
Gender Female
Birth Place Newcastle, Northumberland, England
Civil parish All Saints
County/Island Northumberland
Country England
Street Address 9 Sanitary Place Shieldfield Newcastle
Marital Status Single
Occupation School
Registration District Number 558
Sub-registration district All Saints
ED, institution, or vessel 01
Piece 30640
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Stephen Nelson 52 Head
Caresline Nelson 46 Wife [Caroline on image ]
S W Nelson 20 Son
John George Nelson 19 Son
Joseph Nelson 18 Son
James Nelson 17 Son
Stephen Nelson 15 Son
G B R Nelson 1 Daughter
E Archer Nelson 9 Daughter

It would appear that Ancestry are using FMP transcriptions so the errors will be the same.
I think the transcriptions were done abroad probably an Asian country.

The handwriting is your ancestors so you have to blame them ;-)

Wow thank you that is my lot, but where it says G B R Nelson, the R should be a B, she is my great Aunt.

MR MAGOO I blame them anyway. :-D

Looking at the original document -

The transcriber has written what they think they can see. Personally I would say that the middle initial is a B and to my eyes the 3rd initial looks very much the same so I would have transcribed as GBB BUT I can perhaps see why it was transcribed as an R.

You can try putting in a correction, but don't know if FMP would accept that as they have to be 100% sure of the validity.

I've submitted a correction on Ancestry, supported by the birth reg:

NELSON, GEORGINA BEATRICE BAINBRIDGE mmn SNOWDON
GRO Reference: 1899 S Quarter in NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE Volume 10B Page 75

Don't have a sub to FMP.

Yes she is Georgina Beatrice Bainbridge Nelson, thanks all.