cen 9 1861 census Ball Green, Stoke-on-Trent

This contribution to the history of the southern part of Stoke-on-Trent is invaluable to those keen to learn about the dark side of life for many.  This census is on an Excel programme therefore details can be sorted to supply records in either age, name, gender, status, occupation and place of birth order. There are 804 in total of staff and inmates and with the facility of Excel enables many calculations to be evaluated.

This 1901 census is a follow-up of the 1881 census for the same place and with the twenty year interval between the two dates gives the ideal opportunity for a comparitive study comparing the results for every part of the census return to make a accurate assumprion of changes both in occupations and family size but also places of birth and ages and if the area for this had expalded over the period of study.

This census is the first census that lists names, ages and place of birth. The main place of employment was at the local collery and occupations connected with farming.