Tourer Aldermans Green, Coventry All posts by this member | 1 of 68 Sun 26th Feb 2012 6:17pm Member: Joined Feb 2012 Total posts:11 Does anyone know if there are census records in existence for Foleshill and Coventry between the years of 1801 to 1831? I know that only those from 1841 to 1911 are generally available, but I wondered if the earlier records can be viewed. |
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DBC Nottinghamshire All posts by this member | 2 of 68 Sun 26th Feb 2012 7:25pm Member: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:168 I don't think you are going to have much success according to this website:-
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~alan/family/N-EarlyCensuses.html
"The 1801 census asked local officials to provide information on the number of inhabited and uninhabited houses in the parish and how many families occupied them; the number of people in the parish and their employment; and numbers of baptisms, burials and marriages in the previous 100 years. A similar format was followed for the censuses of 1811, 1821 and 1831, with the addition of further questions.
Most of the early returns for 1801-1831 were destroyed, only statistical summeries being published. Those few returns that survive are now usually in the local County Record Office. The returns usually only name the householder and list the number of people in the house, although occasionally the whole population is listed."
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anne coventry All posts by this member | 3 of 68 Sat 25th Aug 2012 9:55am Member: Joined Feb 2012 Total posts:288 Morning all!
I've been through the site a lot and people are very helpful about finding information, and sometimes family history, when requested by others. Could I just ask that, if that is done for you, you respond and acknowledge those discoveries? This doesn't always happen which can leave the person who has put in the effort a bit frustrated! ![]() ![]() |
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Radford kid Coventry All posts by this member | 4 of 68 Sat 25th Aug 2012 12:08pm Member: Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:355 You are so right, Anne, my sentiments exactly, if people have put in time and effort it's only right to be recognised. Being thanked is not a big deal, so easy and means so much. You take care. Colin ![]() Colin Walton |
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ang1950 Coventry All posts by this member | 5 of 68 Fri 4th Apr 2014 12:08am Member: Joined May 2010 Total posts:15 ![]() |
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Foxcote Warwick All posts by this member | 6 of 68 Fri 4th Apr 2014 9:09am Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:900 Hi ang1950, oh you are so right! I have just checked and the new format is horrible!! It's cumbersome and slow and not user-friendly at all. Why on earth change something that worked so well. I have a few month's subscription left, if they haven't reverted to the old regime by then, I shall cancel mine. Such a shame. |
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ang1950 Coventry All posts by this member | 7 of 68 Fri 4th Apr 2014 9:21am Member: Joined May 2010 Total posts:15 I use it alongside Ancestry so like you said, I will monitor things as I have until October but hope that they do something about it as I only research on my iPad and if I can't see the actual census, well there's not much point in having it! |
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ang1950 Coventry All posts by this member | 8 of 68 Fri 4th Apr 2014 9:23am Member: Joined May 2010 Total posts:15 ![]() |
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pixrobin Canley All posts by this member | 9 of 68 Fri 4th Apr 2014 12:53pm Member: Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:1103 I do my genealogy in fits and starts and have got lots of information from the Ancestry site. Presently trying to write episodes from my own childhood as I have children, grandchildren, and a great-grandchild to pass the stories on to. I don't suppose they will hold much interest to them until they have a history of their own. ![]() |
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David H Lancashire All posts by this member | 10 of 68 Sat 5th Apr 2014 12:47pm Member: Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:106 Pixrobin - I am doing the same with the genealogy, and have found out huge amounts about my family from various sources. I have written over 80,000 words so far on my more recent family history and am keeping going because I love to do it and it interests me. My grown up children seem to like to read what I find and write, but maybe in a hundred years time, one of my descendants might run across these jottings and find them really interesting. Who knows? |
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 11 of 68 Sat 5th Apr 2014 1:10pm Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4247 Hi all ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 12 of 68 Sat 5th Apr 2014 2:34pm Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3479 Coming right up Philip, would you like butties with that ? ![]() ![]() |
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DBC Nottinghamshire All posts by this member | 13 of 68 Sat 5th Apr 2014 2:51pm Member: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:168 I used to subscribe to both Find My Past and Ancestry, but this year haven't bothered to renew the subscription on the former as Ancestry seems now to have all the information I need. There is a very useful website called "Lost Cousins" which publishes a newsletter which includes information about various genealogy websites and any special offers and discounts they may have. |
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pixrobin Canley All posts by this member | 14 of 68 Sat 5th Apr 2014 3:25pm Member: Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:1103 I 'chat' with a friend in South Island NZ every evening over Skype. We met on a photographic forum a few years ago. Sometimes our friend from Scotland joins us so, as she is profoundly deaf, we type our messages rather than using a video link. One time I was visiting our Scottish friend and I had my smart phone with me. We were on the road between Lanark and Hamilton at night and I connected to New Zealand. Told him the villages we were passing through. His response was "Get George (our friend's hubby) to flash his lights and I'll find you on Google Earth." ![]() |
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mcsporran Coventry & Cebu All posts by this member | 15 of 68 Sat 5th Apr 2014 3:48pm Member: Joined Oct 2013 Total posts:474 I recommend trying familysearch.org rather than either findmypast or ancestry. For one thing it's free, but depending on what part of the world your interest lies, it often has better coverage. And if you store your family tree there it won't be removed when you no longer subscribe, future generations will benefit from your research without having to pay them to see what you provided for free. Their granite mountain storage facility should enable your family history information to survive even a nuclear war!
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