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An original hand-written page from the 1901 census
CENSUS RETURNS FOR THE RAME PENINSULA
RECORDS AVAILABLE:
ADDED AUGST 2021 1881 CENSUS RETURN FOR HMS INDUS MOORED AT CREMYLL
ADDED NOVEMBER 2019 1881 CENSUS RETURN FOR HMS CAMBRIDGE MOORED OFF ST JOHN'S LAKE. (see below)
ADDED OCTOBER 2019 1939 ENGLAND AND WALES NATIONAL REGISTER - DOWNDERRY POLBATHIC AND CRAFTHOLE AND SURROUNDING FARMS. (SEE BELOW)
ADDED SEPTEMBER 2019 1939 ENGLAND AND WALES NATIONAL REGISTER (SEE BELOW)
ADDED APRIL 2018 1911 Census Transcription for Maker, Rame and Millbrook. (see below)
MAKER AND RAME VOTING LISTS 1851 - 1865 Added February 2018
SHEVIOCK CENSUS RETURNS ADDED FEBRUARY 2016 - See below
(Sheviock, Polbathic, Crafthole, Trelay,etc)
ANTONY CENSUS RETURNS ADDED MARCH 2016 - See below
(Antony, Tregantle, Tregantle Fort, Blerrick, Wacker, etc)
Census returns up to and including 1911 have been publically available for some time. 19th Century returns have also been transcribed and editied over a period 2002 - 2008 by Roger Collins and are listed below. RPHG members continued the process with the 1901 Census transcription. In 2018 the local census for 1911 was transcribed.
They are presented in a condensed, more locally relevant and 'readable' format and are currently available by clicking on the required year, etc below.
The 1901 and 1911 census data was 'commercialised' in a more exclusive way and sold to Ancestry/Find My Past and others who offer the information to the general public at a price. (but see below!)
Click on one of the titles below, (all PDF files), to open your selected file.
You will need a PDF reader - Adobe or similar to access these files.
You can then search for a particular name/word by using the "EDIT/FIND"
tab and inserting the name/place/word you are searching for.
Local Census Returns:
Prior to 1991, very few census records identify house names - but there are some premises which are identified, (especially pubs)!!.
Frustratingly, it is not always possible to be certain which end or side of a "road" was the
'starting' point for any census. It seems that many families fail to appear in consecutive census returns.
Some of the census files contain a summary at the end - of persons employed in
maritime-related occupations
The census files available are: (click to view)
1841 - 1891 Anderton who lived in these houses over that period?
1841 Census hints guidelines for the enumerators of the day
1841 Census - blank form
1841 Devon Hundreds including Maker the original 'parish' boundary system
1841 Maker
1841 Millbrook
1841 Rame
1851 Maker
1851 Rame
1861 Maker and Rame
1861 Millbrook
1871 Millbrook
1871 Maker and Rame
1881 Millbrook
1881 Maker and Rame
1881 HMS Cambridge (Moored in St John's Lake). Also, see article HMS Cambridge Gunnery Vessel
1 881 HMS INDUS (Moored at Cremyll)
1891 Millbrook
1891 Maker and Rame
1891 Enumerator's Instructions
1891 Millbrook
1901 Maker (transcribed by members of the RPHG)
1901 Rame (transcribed by members of the RPHG)
1901 Millbrook (transcribed by members of the RPHG)
1911 Maker including Kingsand
1911 Maker Anderton Edgcumbe
1911 Millbrook
1911 Millbrook
1911 Rame including Cawsand
1911 Military establishments - Maker, Tregantle and Scraesdon Forts
1841 Sheviock (including Cheviock, Polbathic,Port Wrinkle,Crafthole and local farms)
1851 Sheviock
1861 Sheviock
1871 Sheviock
1881 Sheviock
1891 Sheviock
1841 Antony (including Antony, Tregantle, Blerrick, Whacker)
1851 Antony
1861 Antony
1871 Antony
1881 Antony
1891 Antony
Census pages are available elsewhere. You might like to try:
Handwritten census return pages - view some of the original documents:
1 911 Census Folio 03 Maker Kingsand
1911 Census Folio 04 Maker Anderton Edgcumbe etc
1911 Census Folio 05 Millbrook 1
1911 Census Folio 05 Millbrook 2
1911 Census Folio 07 Rame
1911 Census Folio 11 12 13 others
1911 Census Folio 14
View handwritten 1939 National Register Pages as follow:
Antony and Tregantle
Downderry, Polbathic, Crafthole and surrounding farms (thanks to Brian P)
Maker and Rame
Millbrook St John
Commercial Seamen away from the area
Sailors away from the area would be included in the census for the port in which they
found themselves on census day.
Click on the file below to show a list of such men.
Tracing 19th Century Merchant Seamen in British Records
Useful websites to follow up for census information further afield are:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kayhin/ukocp.html
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CON
(Local family histories)
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