Genealogy Chat

Most of my families in Norfolk were Ag Labs. From the census a lot of them appear to live in barns! It says things like Field Barn for their address. Would they have lived in a cottage on the farm do you think? Carole

Carole Not sure. I have Norfolk ancestors, who are just listed as living in a village. But I once went through the previous and next households on the 1881 census on www.familysearch.org and found only 2 addresses specified - one was at one end of the village, the manor house and at the other end of the village, both geographically and in status terms, was a sheperd living in 'a shed'!! nell

Carole I don't know if this is of any help, but this is taken from the 1841 Enumerators Instructions. 'Houses.' Insert houses uninhabited or building in the manner shown in the Example, writing '1U' or '1B,' as the case may be, in the proper column, opposite to the inhabited house to which each stands nearest. Every house which is unoccupied at the time of your visit and is believed not to have been slept in the night before, may be inserted as uninhabited. New houses, not yet inhabited, may be inserted as 'Building.' Where there is a row of such houses the total number may be inserted before the letter 'B' instead of the separate insertion of each. By 'House' is meant Dwelling-House; and every building in which any person habitually sleeps must be considered a s dwelling-house; but buildings, such as churches or warehouses, or any others, which were never used or intended to be used as dwelling-houses, must not be inserted. It seems that any building that is slept in regularly is considered a house. Victor