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Cornwall 1841 Census Index

• Transcription and conventions used
• Coverage
• Checking
• Grouping
• Abbreviations and codes
• Contact details
• How to buy
• Copyright

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Transcription and conventions used

The Cornwall 1841 census database records 343,626 people grouped into 67,635 schedules.

The data records includes:

• Parish - parishes within Cornwall have been standardised.
• Piece Number
• Enumeration District
• Folio
• Page
• Household Marker
• Household
• Place
• Forenames - abbreviated forenames have been expanded where obvious, for example, Hy to Henry – Wm or Wllm to William, etc.
• Surname - also see alternative surname
• Age - should have been rounded down to the nearest multiple of 5 except for children, although many precise ages are given. An m as a suffix indicates months.
• Sex - M for male, F for female.
• Occupation
• Born in Cornwall - A simple Y for yes - there is no information about parish as in later censuses.
• S, I or F - born in Scotland (S), Ireland (I) or Foreign Parts (F). There is no information about the birth county, other than Cornwall, as in later censuses.
• Alternate Surname - this field is used to show an alternative deduced from another source or the second part of a hyphenated name or other suggested alternative.

Note: Some other fields are included in the database but duplicate information in other fields. Some fields are not shown where inappropriate to this database e.g. Household marker.[to be checked]

This data is based on that transcribed and input by members of Cornwall FHS worldwide.

Any field which contains a suspect entry has a space and a question mark appended at the end. This indicates uncertainty about the data even after checking with the original, e.g. Thomasoin ?

Alternatives where deduced from other sources or suggested possible alternatives are give in square brackets e.g. John Heneric [Henry] ?

Coverage

The following table lists the number of entries for each parish and the pieces numbers within the Public Record Office class HO107:

Checking

Cornwall Family History Society checked the data against the original using a treble checking process. This identified errors and omissions and these were corrected in the version that is now seen online.

Second stage checking is ongoing. There are fewer than 100 people missing from the original data and efforts are being made to identify and add these missing people.

Grouping

The group feature of the database should reconstitute a household accurately even when a household crosses onto a new folio.

Abbreviations and Codes

M or F are used in the returns to indicate Male and Female respectively. S, I or F indicates born in Scotland (S), Ireland (I) or Foreign Parts (F).

Contact details for this Dataset are

Cornwall Family History Society. Web: www.cornwallfhs.com E-mail: 1841online@cornwallfhs.com

How to buy

Contact by e-mail 1841hardcopy@cornwallfhs.com

Copyright and disclaimer

© Trustees of the Cornwall Family History Society and others to be defined. The Census is Crown Copyright and the information from the Census is reproduced with the permissi on of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).

While every care has been taken in the preparation of the index users are advised to view the originals of the Census returns (or facsimiles thereof, e.g. microfilm) and to form their own interpretation. The Cornwall Family History Society accepts no liability for any errors or omissions that remain (although they would welcome notification of alternative interpretations of the census returns.)

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