Kinship. Community. Carpentry. Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (90) analyses a group of carpenters working in the town during 1871 who came from Hinton Martell, a tiny settlement north of Wimborne. The analysis shows that kinship, occupation, and neighbourly proximity connected these Bournemouth immigrants. The results offer clues to society in their native village and aspects of […]
Steady, younger, multi-taskers Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (89) explores the category of female servants recorded at Bournemouth and its rural neighbourhood for the period 1851-1871. The occupations’ field used by the census provides much useful data. Job advertisements appearing in the press add more texture. Victorian Bournemouth (89): categories and demographics Categories of female domestic service […]
Influential. Wealthy. Connected. Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (88) analyses the social profiles of people born in India noted at the resort by the 1871 census. For the most part successful identification has emerged, making it possible to establish their place in society and their subsequent lives. Victorian Bournemouth (88): survey Demographics In 1861, the census listed […]
Right skills. Personable. Social fit. Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (87) explores the occupations and genealogical background of those identified as the resort’s census enumerators in 1861 and 1871. It suggests that census officials selected enumerators who not only had the intellectual and human skills to do the job but who also fitted with the social profile […]