With the 1881 census as a reference we should get an indiction of our ancestors mobility and dispersal by looking back 10 years to the 1871 census. The 1871 census index (Ancestry.co.uk) however contains a number of mis-transcriptions that could be misleading without looking at the original enumerators books (assuming the enumerator heard and entered the correct spelling in the first place!). The corrected data set results is shown opposite and the distribution plotted below) |