Re: Itinerant peddler missed by US Census?

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Was Britain different? I have been looking at the Jewish community of
Swansea, Wales. At the 1901 Census (the most recent one available for
inspection), as many as 35 men recorded an occupation of hawker or
traveller, that is, of pedlar. This was about a quarter of the adult
Jewish males in the Census. Moreover, two Jewish women were recorded
as hawkers.
Harold Pollins
Oxford, England
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In a message dated 25/05/2008 21:46:09 GMT Standard Time,
henry.best1@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Itinerants are/were probably the most likely people to be missed by census
enumerators. If your ancestor had some means of transport (a car, van,
bicycle or a horse and cart) it's likely (for reasons of cost and security
of his stock) that he would sleep in or around that, rather than a fixed
building, so had no place of residence or postal address that the enumerator
could visit to get the information. Itinerants were also keen to be
invisible to the local 'authorities' so as not to be moved on before they
had exhausted the potential of the area. In other words, they had an
incentive NOT to be recorded by the enumerators.
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