Census Questions 1842-style
Aug. 9th, 2011 08:01 pmCensus of the Year 1842
Parish of
Name of Householder
Name of Employer of Servants
Name of Person in charge
Place of Residence and (if in a Town) the Name and (if in Hobart Town) the Number of the Street
Questions to be proposed to every Householder Employer of Servants and Proprietor or Occupier of Land in the Island of Van Diemen's Land by Persons appointed by the Commissioners for taking an Account of the Population under the Act. The Replies to be inserted by the Person appointed as aforesaid and any Person refusing to reply to such Questions or giving false Answers is by the Act subjected to a Penalty of Fifty Pounds.
1. What is the name of the Person at the head or in charge of this House of Establishment?
2. Who is its Proprietor?
3. Is the Dwelling-house built of Stone or Brick or of Wood?
4. Is it complete or unfinished?
5. Is it inhabited or uninhabited? [When the Proprietor is present.]
6. How many Persons generally reside in this Establishment beside yourself?
7. How many of these persons are Free?
8. How many of these Persons were dwelling here on the night of the thirty-first of December last?
9. What other Person (if any) on that night was dwelling with you?
10. Give me (according to the Form annexed) a Return of these Persons distinguishing Males and Females and showing the Number of each Age Religion and Calling as therein specified*.
Number of each age
Civil Condition
Religion
Occupation
Sample
*The number of each categories listed, divided up by Male/Married, Male/Single, Female/Married, Female/Single
Parish of
Name of Householder
Name of Employer of Servants
Name of Person in charge
Place of Residence and (if in a Town) the Name and (if in Hobart Town) the Number of the Street
Questions to be proposed to every Householder Employer of Servants and Proprietor or Occupier of Land in the Island of Van Diemen's Land by Persons appointed by the Commissioners for taking an Account of the Population under the Act. The Replies to be inserted by the Person appointed as aforesaid and any Person refusing to reply to such Questions or giving false Answers is by the Act subjected to a Penalty of Fifty Pounds.
1. What is the name of the Person at the head or in charge of this House of Establishment?
2. Who is its Proprietor?
3. Is the Dwelling-house built of Stone or Brick or of Wood?
4. Is it complete or unfinished?
5. Is it inhabited or uninhabited? [When the Proprietor is present.]
6. How many Persons generally reside in this Establishment beside yourself?
7. How many of these persons are Free?
8. How many of these Persons were dwelling here on the night of the thirty-first of December last?
9. What other Person (if any) on that night was dwelling with you?
10. Give me (according to the Form annexed) a Return of these Persons distinguishing Males and Females and showing the Number of each Age Religion and Calling as therein specified*.
Number of each age
- Under 2 years
- 2 and under 7
- 7 and under 14
- 14 and under 21
- 21 and under 45
- 45 and under 60
- 60 and upwards
Civil Condition
- Free/Born in Colony
- Free/Arrived Free
- Free/Other Free Person
- Bond/Holding Tickets-of-Leave
- Bond/In Government Employment
- Bond/In Private Assignment
Religion
- Church of England
- Church of Scotland
- Wesleyan Methodists
- Other Protestant Dissenters
- Roman Catholics
- Jews
- Mohomadans and Pagans
Occupation
- Land Proprietors Merchants Bankers and Professional Persons
- Shopkeepers and other Retail Dealers
- Mechanics and Artificers
- Shepherds and others in the care of Sheep
- Gardeners, Stockmen and Persons employed in Agriculture
- Domestic Servants
- All other Persons not included in the foregoing Classes
Sample
*The number of each categories listed, divided up by Male/Married, Male/Single, Female/Married, Female/Single
