Households Including Rippingale in the 1881 Census

Introduction
Introduction to the 1881 census
About this transcription
The census household details
The index
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Introduction

This set of pages gives a transcription of all households including anyone named Rippingale (or variants) in the 1881 census., with an index which I have personally produced. As with all transcriptions, it should be treated with caution, particularly with regard to names and places of birth, which were at times difficult to decipher. I hope nevertheless that it will be of some help to people researching Rippingale ancestors.

Introduction to the 1881 census

The columns shown on the enumeration schedules for this census are:

No. of Householder's Schedule
Name of Street, Place or Road and Name or No. of house
Houses, with a separate column for inhabited and uninhabited houses - the columns simply contained a mark to enable the numbers to be counted
Name and Surname of each Person who abode in the house on the Night of 3rd April 1881
Relation to Head of Family
Condition as to marriage
Age last birthday, subdivided into:

Male
Female

Rank, Profession or Occupation
Where Born
Whether Deaf-and-Dumb, Blind, Imbelcile or Idiot, or Lunatic

Notes:

The first column serves to give each household a numeric identity, but are not included in this transcription
Condition means marital status. In this case, as in most, the options are:

Mar = married
Unm = unmarried
Wid = widow or widower (these are sometimes given in full)
[blank] = normally for children under about 15

Users should be aware that the quality of the records is sometimes poor, for a variety of reasons:

The handwriting used is in some cases so poor as to be unintelligible.
There are often marks on the original which obscure the writing. Ages are particularly prone to this problem, on this and other censuses.
Most people at the time were illiterate, so the enumerator wrote down what he heard, or thought he heard. This leads to many variations in spelling of names.
The schedules which were retained were themselves transcribed by the enumerators from their own original records, and so are prone to transcription errors.
Many people did not know for certain where or when they were born (no certificates), and others falsified their age, so ages and places of birth are unreliable for adults.

About this transcription

In order to make this data available even to those with very old browsers, I have avoided the use of tables in its presentation. By using indented lists with bullet points I have also avoided the need for horizontal scrolling, which would make for difficult viewing.

The presentation here consists of two parts, the surname index and the detailed household data.

The surname index shows for each personal entry of people named Rippingale (or variants), the name exactly (or as near as the transcriber could interpret it) as on the original schedule, followed by the age as given in the census and them the place of birth. Clicking on the name leads to the corresponding entry in the transcription of the household in which the person i s included.

In the household details part, I have omitted the "Whether Blind or Deaf-and-Dumb" column, which was not available to me.

I have indented all the information for people within a household, with the full household reference (except the schedule number which was not available to me) and the address in bold and unindented at the beginning. The next level of indentation gives the information against each individual, one line per column on the original form, except that for clarity I have converted the two age columns (one each for males and females) to a single entry per person. Ditto marks in the original have been expanded by the transcriber to the full wording as in the preceding entry. In other respects I have endeavoured to keep the wording identical to that on the original schedule.