Tracing your ancestors
Census records are one of the most powerful tools for tracing local families. Every ten years from 1841, a nationwide headcount captured the names, ages, occupations and birthplaces of everyone living in each household. For fishing, farming and maritime communities like those on the Rame Peninsula, these records reveal a way of life that has otherwise left few traces.
The group has extracted, transcribed and made available census data for Maker with Rame parish and the surrounding area, including Millbrook and Kingsand. Pilot boat entries have been separately extracted, as have entries for specific occupations of interest.
Specialist extractions
Pilot Names and Boats — Extracted from Census
All census entries for Trinity House Pilots, with their vessels, drawn from Plymouth shipping registration records.
The complete census records for the Rame Peninsula are held at The Box Museum in Plymouth. See also the Births, Deaths and Marriages page for parish register data going back to 1630.
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Photographs and images
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Documents
- PDF1881 Census Return For HMS Indus Moored At Cremyll
- PDFMaker And Rame Voting Lists
- PDF1841 - 1891 Anderton
- PDF1841 Census hints
- PDF1841 Census - blank form
- PDF1841 Devon Hundreds including Maker
- PDF1841 Maker
- PDF1841 Millbrook
- PDF1841 Rame
- PDF1851 Maker
- PDF1851 Rame
- PDF1861 Maker and Rame
- PDF1861 Millbrook
- PDF1871 Millbrook
- PDF1871 Maker and Rame
- PDF1881 Millbrook
- PDF1881 Maker and Rame
- PDF1881 HMS Cambridge
- PDFHMS Cambridge
- PDF1891 Millbrook
- PDF1891 Maker and Rame
- PDF1891 Enumerator's Instructions
- PDF1901 Maker
- PDF1901 Rame
- PDF1901 Millbrook
- PDF1911 Maker including Kingsand
- PDF1911 Maker Anderton Edgcumbe
- PDF1911 Millbrook
- PDF1911 Millbrook
- PDF1911 Rame including Cawsand
- PDF1911 Military establishments
- PDF1841 Sheviock
- PDF1851 Sheviock
- PDF1861 Sheviock
- PDF1871 Sheviock
- PDF1881 Sheviock
- PDF1891 Sheviock
- PDF1841 Antony
- PDF1851 Antony
- PDF1861 Antony
- PDF1871 Antony
- PDF1881 Antony
- PDF1891 Antony
- Excel1911 Census Folio 04 Maker Anderton Edgcumbe etc
- PDFAntony and Tregantle
- PDFDownderry, Polbathic, Crafthole and surrounding farms (thanks to Brian P)
- PDFMaker and Rame
- PDFMillbrook
- PDFSt John
- PDFTracing 19th Century Merchant Seamen in British Records
Galleries and pages
- Page1911 Census Folio 05 Millbrook 1
- Page1911 Census Folio 05 Millbrook 2
- Page1911 Census Folio 07 Rame
- Page1911 Census Folio 11 12 13 others
- Page1911 Census Folio 14