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The Baslow Census Coding
Compiled by David Dalrymple-Smith, © Copyright 2004
to accompany his transcriptions of Baslow Censuses of
1841,
1851,
1861,
1871,
1881,
1891,
and
1901
The information displayed for each census is constructed from an Excel spreadsheet, with the
following columns.
For the sake of keeping webpages to a manageable width, not all of these
will be shown online.
| Col A | | XX | for temporary use |
| Col B | | CEN | Census Year. 1841 to 1901 |
| Col C | | NUM | Consecutive number in the Census return |
| Col D | | SCH | Schedule or House Number in Census return |
| Col E | | SURNAME | Surname |
| Col F | | FORENAME | Forename |
| Col G | | REL | Relationship to head CODED |
| Col H | | STAT | Marital Status CODED |
| Col I | | AGE | Age |
| Col J | | SEX | Sex - M or F |
| Col K | | YofB | Year of Birth (Calculated : Census year - Age - 1) |
| Col L | | UNIQUE | “Census + NUM” of first entry (A=1841, B=1851, &c.)
Intended for use to cross-reference people from Census to Census |
| Col M | | OCCUPATION | Occupation as is census return. Occasionally abbreviated |
| Col N | | GPR | Occupational Group CODED |
| Col O | | 2nd O | Secondary Occupation CODED |
| Col P | | BIRTHPLACE | Place of Birth - see note |
| Col Q | | BP | Distance of birth place from Baslow CODED |
| Col R | | HOUSE NAME | House name if any |
| Col S | | HN | Type of house CODED |
| Col T | | STREET | Street Name, “Baslow” or “O” or no entry if no information |
| Col U | | STR | Street abbreviated CODED |
| Col V | | INH | Indication of House 1, or sub houses attached, 2 or 3 etc
Note: In the display this is appended to the address: eg.'ROBIN HOOD/2' |
NOTES
In 1841, Marital Status and Relationship to Head are guessed where obvious.
Not all Columns appear in every analysis. If “CODED” see separate tables.
Specifically, for economy of web space and ease of download SURNAME and FORENAME,
and STREET and HOUSE NAME columns have been combined into one column for display
online by household.
So far the STR coding is used only in Surname Indexes, but in future, it might be
interesting to produce a few graphs from the other codings.
- There are likely to be inaccuracies in Year of Birth (YofB).
The census is taken in late March or early April. Someone aged 0 on 7th April 1881 was
probably born in 1880, but might have been born in early 1881. It is coded as 1880.
Ages in 1841 are often up to 5 years out. Unreliable
Some people don't give their proper age, and an error of 1 for even 2 years is common.
PLEASE NOTE. There is usually no way of deducing when events happened between censuses.
Please bear this in mind when reading any comment.
| 1a | | Farmers, Millers incl Farm Superintendent and Manager
also Sub farmers - Farmers sons, Farm bailiff, Journeyman |
| 2a | | Agricultural Workers Skilled eg Cow keeper, Shepherd |
| 2b | | no specific skills Farm Labourers, Farm Servants, Cow boy |
| 3a | | Retail and Traders, |
| 4a | | Craftsmen, Skilled Labourers |
| 5a | | Manufacturers, Wholesalers, Quarry & Sawmill owners |
| 7a | | Professional |
| 7b | | Teachers etc
incl Auctioneers, Vets, Musician, Inland Revenue, Governess |
| 8a | | Clerical, Services, Army. & Including eg Midwife, Cab Driver, Bellman, Toll collector |
| 9 | | Servants |
| a | | Upper Servants incl Companion, Cook, Ladies Maid, Nurse |
| b | | General Servants |
| c | | Lower Servants, incl Laundress etc |
| A0 | | Annuitants, Of Independent Means, Proprietors |
| A1 | | Innkeepers, Hoteliers, Beer House, Lodging House Keeper |
| A2 | | Labourers excl agricultural |
| C | | Children 14 and under and Scholars of any age |
| H | | Housewife, the senior woman in a house (may often be 2nd occupation) |
| No | | No Occupation implied (but may have a substantial role in a house, farm etc) |
| P | | Paupers |
| R | | Retired All categories of people. Incl Disabled |
| V | | Visitor, Occupation irrelevant, Children not coded as C in 2nd Occ |
| CODING PLACE OF BIRTH |
| A | | Baslow or Bubnell |
E | | Sheffield (area present city) |
| B | | Derbyshire under 5 miles |
F | | Adjoining County |
| C | | Derbyshire under 10 miles |
G | | England or Wales |
| D | | Derbyshire but over 10 miles |
H | | Elsewhere |
| RELATIONSHIP TO HEAD |
| Head | | Head |
| Wife | | Wife |
| Serv | | Servant |
| Nurse | | Nurse or governess |
| Appr | | Apprentice + Journeyman |
| Son | | |
| Daur | | Son or Daughter |
| Bro | | |
| Sist | | |
| Moth | | |
| Fath | | |
| Uncl | | |
| Aunt | | |
| Neph | | |
| Neic | | Nephew or Niece |
| Gson | | Grandson |
| Gdaur | | Grand daur |
| GG | | Great grandson or daur |
| +S | | step |
| +L | | in law |
| +A | | adopted |
| HeadL | | Lodger - Head |
| Lodg | | Lodger |
| Board | | Boarder |
| Visit | | Visitor |
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| CODING FOR HOUSES |
| F | | Farm |
| H | | Hotel or Inn |
| L | | Hall or Lodge |
| M | | Mill |
| N | | Named House |
| P | | Post Office |
| V | | Vicarage |
| O | | Unspecified (reproduced online as '-') |
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| CODING FOR MARITAL STATUS |
| M | | Married |
| U | | Unmarried |
| W | | Widowed |
| O | | Unspecified (reproduced online as '-') |
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| CODING FOR STREETS |
| M | | Eastmoor |
| R | | Robin Hood (inc Moorside farm Eastmoor)) |
| U | | Cupola & Terrace |
| F | | Far End (inc Heathy Lea & Park Gate) |
| H | | Nether End (inc Cock Hill, Plantation Cott) |
| E | | Eaton Hill |
| G | | Green Head |
| N | | Banks Lane (Gorse Bank) |
| P | | Upper End |
| K | | Back Lane |
| C | | Church Lane |
| D | | Bridge End |
| W | | New Buildings |
| V | | Bridge Foot |
| B | | Bubnell |
| O | | Unspecified (reproduced online as '-') |
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FAMILIES
The first column in the spreadsheet has been used to arrange families together.
Coding
A single Capital Letter is the first identified member of a family, often a Head; usually in order of
appearance. All other coding is lower case
A wife is her husbands code + a. eg Husband Bc, his wife will be Bca
Children have the father's code + b, c or d etc. e.g. Father Bc, children Bcb, Bcd etc
y indicates some sort of relationship,
Q indicates brother or sister
z (or x) means relationship not known
NB: The above 'FAMILIES' codes are not available in the online version of the database. By
definition they will always be “under construction”.
The above information was contributed by David Dalrymple-Smith in February 2004.
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