Genealogy Chat

well this will be my last one!!!!

I will be 90 when the 2051 census comes and probably to old to give a $&£! or computers would have come so far I wont understand how to use them!!! LOL

I have promised my friend that we will find her Nan's half sister at some point and the 1921 would be the next step.
We only discovered her when the 1911 came out and she hasn't been seen since she attended her Uncle's Inquest aged 18 later in 1911.

Kind regards
Amanda

I hope you all find the people you are looking for on the 1921 census. I waited for the 1911 to find my grandmother. She appeared on the 1901 Irish census with her family but her father died a year later and her mother put her into a convent. Her mother came to Scotland and appears on the 1911 Scottish census but no sign of my Grandmother on either the Scottish or Irish 1911. Perhaps she was en-route to Scotland at the time.

The census info is only 'as given' .............and may not necessarily be accurate...........or truthful - especially if someone was trying to cover his or her tracks

To echo Sylvia's comments about the 'age' thing..................

Both of my parents are on the 1901 census

If Canada can release their 1921 Census, [done quite recently] then why can U.K. not come to a compromise similar to the 1911, and do the same ?

Patricia
It's because when the 1921 census was taken people were assured the info wouldnr be released for 100 years .

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1921 Census

The 1921 Census for England, Wales and Scotland is the next census to be released. The government position is that this will be released in its entirety in 2022.

The 1921 Census date was the night of Sunday 19 June 1921. Due to the Black Friday Strike by coal miners the census was delayed for nearly 2 months. The only time a census has been delayed. This census is covered by the terms of the Census Act 1920 which means it cannot be released for one hundred years. There have been a number of petitions to government over the years requesting its early release. Most of these petitions argue that census records should be released after 70 years. The most popular petition requesting the release of the 1921 census numbered 23,600 signatures by its end date on the 8th March 2007. The government rejected the petition saying that the privacy of the original partakers must be respected, and that the assurances given to them (i.e. that the information would not be released for 100 years) must be respected.

There is an interesting mention of the 1921 census in a letter that has been posted on the National Archives website concerning the fire on 19 December 1942 which destroyed the entire 1931 census. In it, the writer, a W A Derrick of the General Register Office, is clearly very concerned at the circumstances of the fire and the fact that the entire 1931 census has been destroyed, despite six paid fire service ‘watchers’ being employed at the building where the fire broke out. It is clear this concern causes him to ask questions about the whereabouts and state of the 1921 census. His concern is not helped by the fact that he knew the schedules from the 1921 census had already been damaged by water in an entirely separate incident at Leonard Street. He says these schedules had been dried out and ‘scattered over various parts of Somerset House’. Here is an excerpt of that letter:

‘Will you also let us know where the enumeration books and plans of division relating to the 1921 census are stored. The schedules, as you are aware, were damaged by water at Leonard Street and have since been dried out and are scattered over various parts of Somerset House; but no plans or enumeration books were brought from Leonard Street and it is assumed that they were stored elsewhere….’