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Victorian Bournemouth (87)
2nd Period

Victorian Bournemouth (87): census enumerators, 1861-1871

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 […]