Where did Michael James McGlade Reside? Sometimes you can't find a person, no matter how carefully and thoroughly you look. And sometimes you find the same person at more than one address (and in more than one census return) at roughly the same time. Such is the case with Michael James McGlade, son of John … Continue reading “Now comes Thos. L. Ryan…”
Category: Census Records
“Some of the lands being misnamed, others not named”
One of the challenges of Irish genealogy is that of identifying and locating townlands, the names and spellings of which can vary across time, and, even within the same time period, from one source to another. For a discussion of some of the difficulties, see Dr. Jane Lyons, The Townland: How to Use In Genealogy. … Continue reading “Some of the lands being misnamed, others not named”
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Irish Census: What Was Lost
If you're lucky enough to find a family in the Irish census fragments, you will no doubt feel enormously grateful that that particular census return was preserved. And you will no doubt also realize the enormity of the loss of the nineteenth-century census returns. What was lost? Millions of records, covering the period from 1821 … Continue reading Irish Census: What Was Lost
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One Household: 2 Adults, 10 Children …
... and those 10 children the offspring of 3 separate (but related!) marital pairs. I've written about this before (see, for example, "Blended Families"): the blended family is nothing new. When a widower married a widow, and one or both parties to the marriage had children from a previous marriage, the resulting new household might … Continue reading One Household: 2 Adults, 10 Children …
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1842 Census of Canada East (Quebec)
The 1842 Census of Canada East (Quebec) is available at ancestry.ca (subscription-only), but also at FamilySearch (free of charge). At FamilySearch, the database is titled Canada, Lower Canada Census, 1842. At both sites (and it appears that FamilySearch is the source of ancestry's census database), the census is searchable by name, and the search engine seems … Continue reading 1842 Census of Canada East (Quebec)
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A No-Name in the Nominal Census
In my previous entry, I noted that you are generally not going to find married women's maiden names in the Canadian census returns. And even well into the twentieth century, you will occasionally find a census listing where a married woman was enumerated but not named at all. Here's an example, from the 1921 Census … Continue reading A No-Name in the Nominal Census
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Canadian Census Quirk: Married Women’s Maiden Names
For the most part, you are not going to find married women's maiden names in the Canadian census returns (nor in the English or US census returns either, for that matter). Census enumerators were neither required nor expected to record married women's maiden names; not surprisingly, most of them did not do so. But occasionally … Continue reading Canadian Census Quirk: Married Women’s Maiden Names
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Pre-1901 Irish Census Records Online
First, the bad news (not that it's news: if you've been pursuing Irish genealogy at a level beyond that of absolute beginner, you already know about the sad loss of the nineteenth-century Irish census returns): There are no surviving census returns for 1891, 1881, 1871, and 1861. And there are very, very few surviving census returns … Continue reading Pre-1901 Irish Census Records Online
