On 4 Apr 2006, at 05:47, Ina le Bas wrote:
I have a similar story to you - my Great grandmother made lace but she
was
born in Kirkmabreck, Scotland about 1835 and at the time of the 1851
census
she was listed as a scholar aged 16. I would dearly like to know if
she
made lace as a living or just indulged as we do. Please, is there a
Lacemakers' Census for Scotland?
The only Lacemakers' census, as such, that I know of was the one
recently conducted by The Lace Guild (when all lacemakers were invited
to submit a lace decorated luggage label). The names of the lacemakers
on the Lace Fairy's website were extracted from the national UK census
of 1881.
Gt Britain (England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland until 1922, England,
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland after that) has had a national
census every ten years from 1801, but in most cases only returns from
1841 survive and they are all subject to 100 years closure. Names,
ages, occupations and relationship to head of household were recorded,
though in many cases married women did not have "occupations". 1841 -
1891 are available on microfilm in libraries and archives; 1881 is
fully indexed now and so is most of 1851, so they are the ones most
commonly used (in England). 1901 is on-line, the indexing is very
"iffy" in places and it costs to view the digitized images, but is
readily available.
So the answer to your question "is there a Lacemakers' Census for
Scotland?" is 'No' and 'Yes'.
Re your gt grandmother in the censuses - have a look at
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/Census.html
for more info
Brenda
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/
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