Genealogy Chat

For anyone that may be interested I have just found Queen Victoria on the on-line 1881 Census. To locate her do not enter a first name and for surname enter one space character then QUEEN THE with a year of birth of 1820. Fascinating stuff to see the whole household, including John Brown

Very interesting!! NB this only works on the LDS site, I tried it on ancestry first and got loads of McQueens!

Wow Amazing. I've never seen one with so many pages before. Penny

she's under the surname of Majesty on 1871 (i was doing the same before) but can't Find Her in 1891 or Edward in 1901

Jack How did you find that.... Given that you say you have to put in a 'space' to get the info? Was it by accident or do you have 'Royal' connections?? :) LOL Chris

You only have to put in "The" as the first name, "Queen" as the surname and Birth Year as "1820". It does work on the Ancestry site too. Interesting how dog-eared that particular page is - reckon that it must have been one of the most frequently-thumbed pages!

Hi Can you do address search on ancestry for 1881 to see who was head of Buckingham Palace then? Penny Ps they even have her year of birth wrong as she was born 24-May-1819

The Queen was head, it not wrong just an estimate (if you take away 61 (he age on census date) from 1881 you get 1820

Found Edward in 1901! Edward R & I, head, married, 59, The King Source information: RG13/1169 Registration district: Windsor Sub-registration district: Windsor ED, institution, or vessel: Windsor Castle Folio: 89 Page: 1 (click to see others on page) Household schedule number: 1

Wow! There's pages of them from all over the country. Has anyone found a rellie working at Windsor? Anne

so was she down twice then in Windsor & Buckingham Palace?

No Penny her age is correct - the census was taken on 3rd April, i.e. before her 62nd birthday, so she was still 61 at the time.

I love the occupation..... 'The King' can't get any better than that, eh? LOL.

Here is Victoria in 1871: Name: Her Majesty the Queen Age in 1871: 51 Estimated birth year: 1820 Relation: Head Household: View other family members Gender: Female Civil parish: New Windsor Ecclesiastical parish: Windsor St Georges County/Island: Berkshire Country: England Source information: RG10/1302 Registration district: Windsor Sub-registration district: Windsor ED, institution, or vessel: Windsor Castle Folio: 103 Page: 1 (click to see others on page) Household schedule number: 1 :

Ok I'm wrong :-)

Here's Edward Albert, the Prince of Wales in 1891, at Sandringham. From googling, it appears that Queen Victoria was in France on 27 March 1891, so may well have still been out of the country by census time (5-April). Name: Edward, Albert Edward Age in 1891: 49 Relation: Head Gender: Male Where Born: Buckingham Palace, London Civil parish: Sandringham Ecclesiastical parish: Sandringham Town: County: Norfolk Source information: RG12/1564 Registration district: Freebridge Lynn Sub registration district: Hillington ED, institution, or vessel: 6 Folio: 54 Page: 2

On the 1881 there is a 'Eugenie ex-Empress of the French' shown as a visitor!

I see there are just as many mistranscriptions on this as any other household - clearly the royal enumerator's handwriting wasn't very clear - librian for librarian, sutgeon for surgeon - obviously useful to have one on the premises, you never know! And 3 coffee room women - one to pour, one to stir, one to hand round? nell

It works if you just put in Queen without the space too. I wonder how much money she spent each year on her household of taxpayers money? Penny

On the 1881 there are 2 King Charles (Charles is the surname) King George, King Solomon & Prince Penny