I’ve been looking up my family. My great grandad was illiterate. 
They originally had the Census only for Dublin but now you can search all 32 counties.
One great-grandfather was a Patrick, but his family had immigrated to America a long time before 1911. I recall seeing gravestones with my Patrick ancestors from the 1830s in a small cemetery in Arkansas. No idea exactly when they went to America or where they were before Arkansas, but I would love to know where in Ireland thet were.
A quick search drew no results from what I remembered from my Dad’s family tree, but I’ll turn the link over to him to look into it further, thanks for posting it.
My wife’s great grandparents had 14 children, 13 of them born before the 1911 census and all still living at the time. Nine of them are listed. Three had married and moved out by 1911. Hanora wasn’t home at the time of the census and wasn’t counted on their form or anyone else’s. I wonder where she was. They had a young girl with a different surname living with them. I’ve never heard anyone mention her. I’ll have to track down who she was.
I’m still trying to find a form that has someone listed as “Lunatic”.
Yeah there are loads of anomalies with regard to people being in each other’s houses. I think part of it was hired domestic servants which seemed to have been more common at that time, or similar live in help. Also, depending on time of day the census was done, presumably a friend or cousin could have been visiting and would have been listed.
I don’t know why I forgot to mention it, but the interesting part is that they listed her as “Daughter”. She was only four years old at the time, so she wasn’t a servant, and there’s nobody with her last name or anything like it in the family tree, so she’s not a relative. I suppose that listing her as “daughter” could be a mistake by the person who filled out the form, but that seems unlikely. I hope that someone still living knows about her.
I think I found my great grandpa & great grandmother in the census. I have so little info on my family though, but it seems highly likely that this is the correct record.
Could anyone who is a genealogist let me know if I am not just making a wild stab in the dark here.
I don’t know what year my great grandparents were born in, but I know their first names and both are correct.
I know the name of all 6 kids.
I only know 3 of their kid’s birth years:
1906 for the daughter (from a passenger record),
1912 for my Grandpa (from his obit & death certificate),
1922 for a son named Samuel (from his son).
I know from my dad that my grandpa was the second youngest so all the rest must be before 1912.
I know my great grandma lived to nearly 99 (she died in 1978) which would have meant she was born about 1880.
I know one son worked as a trimmer in a shipyard in his adult life.
As for the census record:
There are 4 of the 6 kids names and the daughter is same age as she is on a ship’s passenger list that I had found and she has the correct middle name.
My great grandmother’s age was 30, which would have meant she was born about 1880/1881.
My great grandpa is listed as being a Laborer in a ship yard as well.
There is a neighbor a few doors down also with the same last name as my great grandma’s maiden name who is a widower living with one of his daughters and her family.
The names are common names, but I’ve looked on every record for every variation of the last name, and not one is even close.
Here is the URL of that record:
My grandmother was just a year old but already branded “can’t read”. Probably the shame drove her out of the country.
I got 384 hits with my last name in County Waterford, where I know my ancestors are from. Um. Clearly I need to narrow that one down a bit. I’ll send the link to my mom.
Very cool, thanks for sharing!
My ex was grateful for the census, she seemed to find a few useful pointers on her family tree.
According to family legend, long before 1911 my many-times great grandfather and his brother sailed to Canada from Ireland on a boat they built themselves. My ggfather settled land and built a mill, and a town grew up around it. He donated land for a Catholic church and school. A couple generations later one of his sons moved south to Michigan, which is where I’m from.
StG
I find it interesting that on page 2 of the survey form they give instructions for “Rank, Profession, etc.”
If I am reading it correctly, a “student” is attending University while a “scholar” is a young child attending school or getting home-schooled.
That goes against the grain of what I have always thought.