1851 Census return (HO 107/1478)
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| Parish of
St George Hanover Square |
Ecclesiastical District
St Peters |
City of Westminster | Town of | Village of | |||||
| Number on census | Street Number or Name of House | Name and surname of each person | Relation to Head of family | Married or not | Age of | Profession or Occupation | Where Born | If – 1. Deaf-and-Dumb | |
| 2. Blind | |||||||||
| 3. Imbecile or Idiot | |||||||||
| Males | Females | 4. Lunatic | |||||||
| 20 Brewer St | Thomas Greenwood | Head | married | 65 | Stonemason | Hereford | |||
| 1 | Anna ditto | Wife | married | 48 | Laundress | Gloucestershire Cheltenham | |||
| 2 | Mary Frowde | Widow | 51 | Lodging House Keeper | Cornwall , St.Cullum | ||||
| John Frowde | Son | unmarried | 14 | Errand boy | London St Brides | ||||
| William Bailey | Lodger | unmarried | 38 | Labourer | Surrey Guildford | ||||
| Henry Ayling | Lodger | unmarried | 25 | Labourer | Surrey Guildford | ||||
| 3 | Edward Young | Head | married | 29 | Carpenter | Surrey Clapham | |||
| Elizabeth Ann Young | Wife | married | 29 | Straw bonnet maker | Hants, Gosport | ||||
| Edward Young | Son | 5 | Surrey, Lambeth | ||||||
| Harriet Young | Daug | 1 month | Middlesex Pimlico | ||||||
| 4 | Martha Brown | Wife | married | 41 | Chandlers Shop Keeper | Surrey, Lambeth | |||
| Thomas Brown | Son | 11 | Scholar | Middlesex Pimlico | |||||
| Emily Brown | Daug | Ditto Ditto | |||||||
| 5 | John Barber | Head | married | 41 | Bricklayer | Suffolk Framlingham | |||
| Mary Ann Barber | Wife | married | 32 | Bricklayers Wife | Suffolk Stowmarket | ||||
| Frederick Barber | Son | 10 | Scholar | Westminster St Johns | |||||
| Maria Barber | Daug | 2 months | Middlesex Pimlico | ||||||
| Total of Persons | 10 | 8 | |||||||
2. Take a look at another page for Westminster from the 1851 census
- Can you work out from this census return how Mary Frowde supports herself and her son?
- What different jobs do the men on this census return do?
- What different jobs do women on this census return do?
- Are there any jobs which do not exist today? Can you explain why?
- Compare this page of the census to the previous one. Can you explain any differences between these areas of Westminster?