Unidentified Woodhursts in UK Censuses


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Listed below are Woodhursts who appear in various UK Census records but have not yet been fitted firmly into any of the Woodhurst Family Genealogies.
The full records can be found among the Census pages for 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901


Unidentified in 1841

Elizabeth. Implied birth 1797-1801 outside Middlesex. Father possibly William (9).
William. Implied birth 1817-1821 outside Nottinghamshire. 
            The spelling of his surname as Woodhurst is crystal clear on the schedule. 

Unidentified in 1861

Thomas. Implied birth 1838-39 at Dover, Kent.
            Seaman aboard the ship "Mars" in Palermo Bay, Sicily.
            Suspected to be a misnaming of George (1) Woodhurst.
Robert (1). Implied birth 1820-21 at Rochester, Kent.

Unidentified in 1871

Henry. Implied birth 1830-31 at Walsden, Lancashire.
            Cotton weaver at Hurdsfield, Yorkshire.
            Married as Henry "Woodhurst" (clear) to a widow Hannah (nee Broadhurst) Wandle in 1869. 
George. Implied birth 1861-62 at Paddington, London.
            Scholar in the Mile End Old Town Industrial School, Bancroft Road.

Unidentified in 1881

Eliza (nee?). Widow of unknown Woodhurst. Implied birth 1841 at Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire.
Mary. Implied birth 1829 at Penshurst, Kent.
Rosana. Implied birth 1848 at Thranderstone, Suffolk.  [Parish Records show her family's surname was always Woodward, not Woodhurst.]

Unidentified in 1891

Ernest. Implied birth in February 1891 at Hastings, Sussex - nurse child in a Hitchman household, perhaps illegitimate.
            There appears to be no GRO birth reference for him in 1891 (March, June) under Woodhurst (or variants) or Hitchman.
Ernest R. Implied birth 1865-66 at Brighouse, Yorkshire - general labourer with wife Sarah.
            There appear to be no GRO references for him under Woodhurst. 
            His surname on the schedule closely resembles Woodhurst or (perhaps) Woodhunt.
Fanny. Implied birth 1861-62 at Lichfield, Staffordshire - unmarried servant cook in a Cranford household.
            There appear to be no GRO references for her under Woodhurst. 
Frederick. Implied birth 1876-77 at Bramley, Hampshire - farm servant in an Elliott household.
            There appear to be no GRO references for him under Woodhurst. 
            The spelling of his surname as Woodhurst is crystal clear on the schedule. 
John [Woodhirst]. Implied birth 1832-33 at Clifton, Yorkshire - widowed "farmer's man" lodging with a widow Mary Ann Stead.
            The spelling of his surname as "Woodhirst" is crystal clear on the schedule. 
Maria. Implied birth 1821-22 at Marylebone, London - widowed laundress in a Tosling [?] household.
            The spelling of her surname as Woodhurst is crystal clear on the schedule. 
Thomas. Implied birth 1849 at Lambeth, Greater London - unmarried builder lodging with numerous others.
            There appear to be no GRO references for him under Woodhurst.

Unidentified in 1901

Dolly A. Implied birth in 1900 at Ore, Sussex - nurse child in a Campbell household.
Mary. Implied birth in 1880 at Hackney - unmarried employer in the boot trade and boarding in a Holloway household.
            The spelling of her surname is crystal clear on the schedule. 
            She may be Rose Alice with her forename misrepresented,
            or she may be Gertrude Mary with her age slightly exaggerated. 
Henry. Implied birth in 1861 in Peterborough - unmarried seaman on a vessel "Northumbria" at Wallsend, Newcastle on Tyne.
            The spelling of his surname is crystal clear on the schedule.