Genealogy Chat

Hello,
I have found my relative on the 1841 census but the address just says
Highfield P B, Sedgley I have no idea what P.B is anyone any idea ??

Mary

Can you post the details

William Millington M 50 1791 Staffordshire
Martha Millington F 45 1796 Staffordshire

Piece:
998 Book/Folio:
12/28 Page:
1 Registration District:
Dudley

Civil Parish:
Sedgley Municipal Borough:
Wolverhampton Address:
Highfield P B, Sedgley, Wolverhampton County:
Staffordshire

Mary

The enumeration sheet is not that helpful either

I'd been looking at that as well GlitterBaby. Just a thought - Parish Boundary?

Irene Mary might like to contact the Staffs Archives and see if they can clarify.

Hello,

i have just emailed the Sedgley Local History Society and Staffordshire Record office so I suppose it's a case of waiting to see if they reply and if so if they can enlighten me
Thank you for trying to help

Mary

Maybe Parliamentary Borough ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedgley

I've come across this in Scotland, but not England. Here's an example of the identifying info from FreeCEN:


Piece: SCT1841/232 Place: Peterhead -Aberdeenshire Enumeration District: 2
Civil Parish: Peterhead-Parl.Burg Ecclesiastical Parish, Village or Island: -
Folio: 2 Page: 1
Address: Errol Street (South Side)

Piece: SCT1841/232 Place: Peterhead -Aberdeenshire Enumeration District: 3
Civil Parish: Peterhead-Parish Ecclesiastical Parish, Village or Island: -
Folio: 3 Page: 4
Address: Little Stirling Hill

Hello,

This is my 3rd attempt to post message :-| I could blame the drink but I do not think my Coffee or Tea where that strong seems they went to some great void somewhere

Hope you all had a peaceful christmas and have a lovely new year

I have had a reply from Staffordshire records office about highfield PB seems there is a mistake on the original census form below is part of e-mail if anyone else iinterested

I would expect PB on a census to stand for Parliamentary Borough and Sedgley was part of Wolverhampton Parliamentary Borough. However the positioning on the page is a bit odd. I have looked through the whole enumeration district and the address ‘Highfield’ and the other addresses in this district are all recorded above the column heading ‘place’ rather than in the column below. This appears to be a mistake made by the census enumerator and it does not happen for the preceding or following enumeration districts. I would therefore think that the addresses have been recorded in the wrong place on the form and the ‘PB’ is used simply to record that Highfield and the rest of this area are within the Parliamentary Borough of Wolverhampton.

Mary

Mary - thanks for the update.