Re: 100 year Census closure rule?

> From: Stuart Cresswell <stuart.cresswell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> I gave thought to what information one might find on people living now
> and concluded that it would be name and age (so approx dob) and
> relationship to a now dead person at a particular address (and by
> inference to others at the same address). Very few indeed would be more
> than scholars (and if they were working in 1911 the 100 year rule will
> not help because they would have been in the 1901 census). Name and dob
> are available with relationship to parent elsewhere. The authorities
> would be giving very little confidential information away if the 1911
> were released (and indeed not much if 1921 were released). However I do
> not know what the personal questions (deaf/dumb/etc) were and they may
> be relevant to privacy.>

They would be giving very little away if the 1911 census were to be
released early, since I suspect most of us will already have most of
the relevant information from other sources, especially if, as in my
case, the family were still at the address they were in 1901
(relatively easy to discover from electoral registers and directories
etc). We will also know from birth, marriage and death certificates
whether there were any additions to, or departures from, the
household in the intervening decade. If the head of the household and
perhaps other members, too, were tradesmen, then they are quite
likely to appear in trade directories as well.

I am pretty sure I could construct a 1911 census of my grandparents'
household in Bradford right now. My grandfather will not be there
because he died in 1907 but my grandmother will still be there and
still called Stockdill because she remarried in the December quarter
of 1911. My father will be there, aged 9, though he wasn't on the
1901 because he wasn't born until the following year. My Aunt Mary
will probably still be there since she didn't marry until 1921 and my
Uncle Albert should be there, since he didn't marry until 1915, but
my Aunt Charlotte very likely won't be there because she married in
1910. I know precisely how old they were, what they did for a living
and all the relationships etc. I am afraid I have never really seen
the reason for confidentiality over such basic details in the first
place.

Roy Stockdill
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and that is not being talked about."

Oscar Wilde

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