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Any idea what the enumerator was recording on this page in a small Herefordshire village, when he wrote all these ticks and Xs.?

Edward Bowers Age: 65 Estimated birth year: abt 1776 Household: View other family members Gender: Male Where born: Herefordshire, England Civil parish: Ullingswick Hundred: Broxash County/Island: Herefordshire Country: England Street address: Occupation: View image Source information: HO107/419/16 Registration district: Bromyard Sub-registration district: Bromyard ED, institution, or vessel: 7 Folio: 9 Page: 12 (click to see others on page) Line number: 10 GSU Number: 288814

Gwynneth they just look like the enumerators marks, he would copy the pages into a book and just mark where he had got to on a page. Georgina.

I think they are the marks of the person who pulled statistics from the census records......(this was the next stage after the enumerator) they made counts of occupations, ages of people and much much more......the person was just keeping tabs on where they had got to! Merry

Thanks for looking. I am probably distantly related to most in this village, hence the interest. There doesn't seem to be any logic to them. Ag. labs of abt. the same ages and same county don't have the same marks. I understand what you are saying but the ennumerator made alot of stops on that page ! ........... Oh, just thought I'd sussed the crosses then. I was thinking they were for folk 15 and over, -but No. Gwyn...... still puzzled.

Gwyn this is from the description page on ancestry regarding the 1841 census... For the 1841 census parishes were organized into hundreds (and into wapentakes in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire) rather than registration districts as in the later censuses. The 1841 census returns were organized alphabetically according to county, hundred, and parish names. Consecutive piece numbers were assigned to hundreds or parts of hundreds for reference purposes. You will find the piece number on a paper strip on the side or bottom of every image, following the PRO class number (HO 107). There may be hundreds of pieces within a county. The clerks who compiled and reviewed the census data made a variety of marks on the returns. Unfortunately, many of these tally marks were written over personal information and some fields, such as ages, can be difficult to read as a result. More useful marks include a single slash between households within a building and a double slash separating households in separate buildings. Hope it helps. Georgina.

Thanks Georgina. Gwyn