Sunday March 31st, 1901 was census day - and here we are on Easter Sunday, March 31st, 112 years later, and I have been going through the 1901 census pages today. There were a few things I was able to fill in, but not a huge amount of new information. Much of what I found was a repeat of the 1911 census. The older generations that I was hoping may have lived until 1901 seem not to have done, so nothing new revealed there. Lionel Waller was in China, according to his military records, so he was not included in the 1901 census. His sister, Edith, appears to have been an officer in the Winchester Prison; how would a young woman from a village in Kent end up as a prison officer in Hampshire? What are the stories that go with the facts?
It has been a glorious Easter Sunday here in Eastern Canada. At last, the snow is (very nearly) gone and there are all kinds of shoots coming up in the garden. And there are LOTS of birds to watch through the windows.
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| Annabel at the window |
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