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Latest News. You can find what is left of the , , and on Findmypast, the censuses from the latter half of the century are totally lost. Household return forms were filled out and signed by the head of household and then collected by an Enumerator. The Enumerator also noted religious denominations for each townland or street and counted the number of out buildings. Both in their 70s at this stage, they are retired and living on annuities.
Both of them object to the 'Religious Profession' field of the census, with Thomas writing simply 'object' and Anna 'further information refused'. In Anna Haslam was one of 15 people with an Irish address among the 1, women who signed a petition to parliament to include women on the same terms as men. Anna Haslam was secretary of the DWSA until , when she stood down and was elected life president.
Although Thomas died in , Anna lived to cast her vote in She died in Hyde was a prominent scholar of the Irish language. The year before the census he had addressed a meeting in Loughrea in County Galway, complaining of the rapid Anglicisation of the country and the loss of the Irish language. He had helped to found the Gaelic League in , whose aim was to encourage the preservation of Irish culture, music, dances and language.
While the census form is filled out in English, he filled out the in Irish. In he notes that he and his daughters as well as their cook and domestic servant can speak both Irish and English.
As can be seen in the census, Hyde was an Episcopal protestant. One of the leaders of the Rising can be found as a year-old law student in the census. The censuses from through were destroyed by the government sometime after statistics had been compiled from them. Also there is the Ireland Householders Index. From to , records were kept of people who paid taxes to the Church of Ireland or the government in Ireland.
The census is the first complete census available for Ireland. The and censuses are available to the public and are now online , but all censuses taken since are not. The to censuses are divided by county, barony, civil parish, and townland. The and censuses are divided by county, electoral division, and townland. Because many of the earlier censuses are not available, census substitutes are especially useful for Ireland.
These include tax, religous and poll lists among others. See the below section on census substitutes for more information on census substititues. The census lists the same information as the census and adds for married women:. All other census records, including the surviving early fragments, are kept at the National Archives. Additional census forms are available for the and censuses that give more information about the household. These additional forms can be viewed on the National Archives site.
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