Census Collection

Sir James Brooke / Census
SIR JAMES BROOKE Governor of Labuan, later Rajah of Sarawak, at a time when the overseas population of the British Empire numbered 139 million

Cartoon, The Census, John Bull on a weighing machine - Try Your Weight Date: 1891

Cartoon, The Census - April 1891
Cartoon, The Census - Census Taker prompts woman to put her age, ten years older than last time. Date: 1891

Cartoon, Out of Her Census, Another decayed - decade! Ah, me! A woman contemplates the passing of time. Date: 1891

Cartoons, Conscientious Charles, A Story of the Census - trying to complete the census form accurately, he tries to discover his mother-in-law's true age Date: 1891

1911 Census - John Bull being measured
Front cover of The Sphere, of John Bull being measured to see if his waist has grown from the decade before. Date: April 1911

Census entry for William Toye - London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Parish of St. Leonard s, Shoreditch. 1841

HOMELESS FAMILY / ADELPHI
Taking the census in the dark arches of the Adelphi. A bulls-eye lamp illuminates the misery of a homeless family sheltering under the arches. Date: 1861

HOMELESS IN ST JAMESS
Early morning - the Enumerator taking the census in St Jamess Park. The homeless are woken and interviewed. Date: 1861

PATERFAMILIASS CENSUS 1861
Paterfamilias filling up the census return. The head of a large Victorian family, consisting of several generations, fills in the census Date: 1861

Census - Cruikshank
Taking the Census. The head of an oversized, extended family has difficulty remembering the names of his kin and servants let alone how many there are! Date: 1851

CENSUS IN WEST END HOME
The census in the West End: taking the tale of his household. The head of the house interviews the staff Date: 1901

Census / 1901 / John Bull
John Bulls tailor measures him for a new suit - a satirical comment on a dramatic rise in population, as demonstrated by the 1901 Census

Sir Reginald MacLeod - 27th Chief of MacLeod
Sir Reginald MacLeod (1847-1935) - 27th Chief of MacLeod who became chief of the clan following the death of his older brother in 1929. In charge of the 1901 census. Date: circa 1930

Christian Evangelist Missionary - Mexico. Date: 1902

St Asaph Cathedral - Interior of Church. Part of Box 145 Boswell Collection - East Coast. St Asaph is a city[ and community on the River Elwy in Denbighshire, Wales

Joseph goes to Bethlehem for the census. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

Women / Post-War Britain
THE INDEPENDENTS An old fellow has too many daughters with no one to woo ; but they are able and willing to earn our own bread. Date: 1921

Indexing the Census
The Indexing Department (Gallery) of the Census Office Date: 1861

Edwardian factory worker Christopher Tipping
1901 Census - Christopher Tipping aged 55 (so about 60 in the photo) a Hatter - Blocker of hats, born Stockport. His lived at 27 Sydney Street, Stockport with his wife Betty aged 64

W Moult and J Fidler, workers at hatworks
Ernest Battersby took a number of photogrpahs of employees at the family hatworks in Stockport, and noted their names as well

Edwardian family group outside house
Identified by the photographer at the time, the 1911 Census shows Joseph Henry Green, age 34 born High Lane, occupation Hatters Proofer, his wife Harriett Green, 34, and son Jack Green

Suffragette Badge 1911 Census Boycott
Badge representing the 1911 Resistance to the Census movement. Members of the W.S.P.U, Womens Freedom League and the Womens Tax Resistance League

Girls in Class / Iln 1911
East London schoolgirls are taught how to fill in census returns for parents who are unable to read or write English. Date: 1911

Youngest census entrant 1931 ?
Clara, born in Queen Charlottes Maternity Hospital at 11.59 pm on Sunday 26 April, the evening of the 1931 census. She was entered into the census list at her mothers request Date: 27 April 1931

1861 Census office
The Census Office at Craigs Court, near Trafalgar Square in London. Up until 1920, a Census Act had to be passed every ten years to permit the taking of a census in the UK

The Census 1931
A scene at the Park Royal Hospital, Willesden, north west London, on the day of the 1931 census as a nurse makes sure that all the babies are recorded. Date: 26 April 1931

Taking the census on board ship 1861
Taking the census on board ship in the West India Docks Date: 1861

Census tabulation in former Lambeth workhouse
Data from the 1931 census being transferred to punched cards in the former Lambeth workhouse - presumably the one on Princes Road (now Black Prince Road), Lambeth, south London

Mary and Joseph head to Bethlehem
Joseph and Mary head to Bethlehem for the census, despite Marys delicate condition. Thank goodness for donkeys

Taking Census / Canal / 1861
Taking the census on the Regents canal

Roman Suovetaurilla
A purifying sacrifice performed by the Romans - notably at the census or on military occasions) : a boar, a ram and a bull were the requisite victims

Census counting machine
Counting and tabulating machines used in the 1911 census. Punched cards, where different combinations of holes represented a different fact on the census sheet were then fed into the counting

Census Underneath Arches
Taking the census in the dark arches of the Adelphi. A bulls-eye lamp illuminates the misery of a homeless family sheltering under the arches

Homeless in St James s
Early morning - the Enumerator taking the census in St Jamess Park. The homeless are woken and interviewed

Paterfamiliass Census
Paterfamilias filling up the census return. The head of a large Victorian family, consisting of several generations, fills in the census

Census Record Office 1861
Census record office

Census 1901 Gypsies
The census in humble life, an enumerator in gypsy encampment

Just in Time Census 1901
Just in time for the census, Sir!

Racial / Gipsies / Census
The French government includes gipsies in the census

Big Family / Cruikshank
Taking the Census. The head of an oversized, extended family has difficulty remembering the names of his kin and servants let alone how many there are!

Census in West End Home
The census in the West End: taking the tale of his household. The head of the house interviews the staff including the cook, maids, butler and footmen

Population / Census 1911
East London schoolgirls are taught how to fill in census returns for parents who are unable to read or write English

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