I double checked part of the 1871 census for Honiton, Devon and there are
several ladies described as Lace Makers or Lace Manufacturers, and it shows
where they were born. There are many more ladies with no occupation shown
and I many of them may well have been lace makers, but it wasn't considered
to be an occupation as such - women did have occupations unless you were
perhaps the head of the household. It would probably have been the head of
the household who filled in the census form and if he didn't consider that
his wife and/or daughters had occupations, then it didn't go on the form.
For 1841 there are no actual places of birth shown except whether they were
born in the county for which the census was being taken, i.e. if the census
was for Devon and you were born in Devon you got a Y by your name or and N
if you were born somewhere else. The Y and N are not always easy to
distinguish because the transcriber of the forms was doing pages of these
entries and he/she is also trying to read the writing of the person who
filled in the form - not necessarily the same person. If there was no-one
in the household who could write, then the form was completed by the
enumerator - hence the different spelling of family names that you come
across when doing research.
Malvary in Ottawa where it is hot and muggy again today.
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