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CENSUS OF ENGLAND AND WALES
Extracts courtesy of Philip E. Robinson FRPSL, 5-30-09
Recently I have been doing some family history research, and have traced some of my forebears back to the
17th century. As a subscriber to various pay-to-view websites, it wasn't difficult to find Harold Blackburn's
entries in census returns. In case they are of interest I am attaching scans of the relevant entries in the
1881, 1891, 1901 and 1911 census returns.
Harold's father, Edwin Walter Blackburn was a schoolmaster. He was born at West Melton near Rotherham,
Yorkshire, and baptised at the nearby Wath-on-Dearne parish church on 25 March 1844. He married Sarah Jane
Tate in the West Derby area of Liverpool in July-Sept.1872, and they evidently spent most of their married
life in the tiny village of Owston, about five miles north of Doncaster, Yorkshire. Edwin died there in
Oct.-Dec.1906. Sarah evidently retired to the coastal resort of Bridlington where she died in April-June 1909.
Harold lived with his parents at Owston until sometime after the 1901 census was taken. In the 1901 census
his profession is given as "bicycle maker & repairer" (shades of the Wright brothers!!) but by 1911 he is an
"aviator" - at that time he was a "boarder" with a family at Byfleet in Surrey. |
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