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Pre-1841 Censuses & Population Listings in the British Isles (Chapmans Records Cameos Series) (#959) - Softcover
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t has long been an article of faith that the census of 1841 was the first British census to list the names of individuals. This myth, as most of us know, has been exploded recently in a number of important publications but perhaps nowhere as comprehensively as in this cameo publication by Colin Chapman. In nearly 90 pages of text, accompanied by unique notes and references to original documents, Mr. Chapman describes hundreds of pre-1841 name lists (censuses, poll lists, national surveys, tax lists, parish enumerations, etc.), explaining most of them, as far as possible, in their historical framework. He has interwoven simple enumerations of people, even surveys and numbers of houses, with detailed listings which furnish names, ages, addresses, occupations, religious affiliations, and more. Local unique lists are jumbled among national surveys, military with civilian, ecclesiastical with civil.
As logic would dictate, the work follows a chronological pattern, and for this edition, the author has appended, in Appendix I, a county-by-county breakdown of the various censuses containing individuals' names with the dates of those censuses; and for completeness, in Appendix II, he has added a list of decennial censuses containing names of individuals from 1801 to 1831.
This new fifth edition, completely rewritten, incorporates over 200 additional listings for Ireland, making it a unique chronological account of censuses and enumerations in the British Isles from 1086 to 1841.
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- PublisherGenealogical Pub Co
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0806315024
- ISBN 13 9780806315027
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number4
- Number of pages82
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Genealogical Pub Co, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., 1996
ISBN 10: 0806315024
ISBN 13: 9780806315027
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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. A NEAR FINE, bright, clean, tight, scholar/collector-worthy copy sans flaws. Revised and Enlarged Fourth Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "Best Wishes, Colin R. Chapman". From the author's Preface: "The continuing demand for copies of this Cameo have offered an opportunity to revise the text and appendices for a fourth and enlarged edition. I still offer this as a chronological account of censuses and enumerations in the British Isles from 1086 to 1841, although some reviewers have implied I have mentioned only eighteenth century material. I believe that the addition of the Index with over 80 national taxes and other allied listings make this Cameo even more useful to the reader." TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface. 1. 1841 - The Ultimate Census. 2. Listings to the Sixteenth Century. 3. Seventeenth century listings. 4. Eighteenth century listings-the first half. 5. Eighteenth century listings-1750-1775. 6. Eighteenth century listings 1776-1786. 7. Listings from 1787. Appendix I-Censuses containing names of individuals. Appendix II. Decennial census returns from 1801-1831. Notes & references. Index. 82 pages. LH4. Inscribed and Signed By Author. Seller Inventory # 009117
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