// Oh, no! Do we have to?//
yes there are penalties attached to not
( that is - - it is a duty)
1851 is the only one where the households are underlined ( useful for odd or truncated copies)
I did a lot of reading not of pages but of areas - or whole censuses of a town, and as the articles suggest - got some crazy answers
one yorkshire farmer had a 'concubine'
one commented " they say they are all skilled but I think not one of them has ever been employed (*) "
another: " this is a rookery and I think no man has any occupation besides thieving"
ma gt grannie is down in one as 'Bregena' - Bridge-eena instead of Bridget - that took a year or so to find. When the census taker came round, I reckon she was at work and no one knew bridg's long name so they came up with bregena
another I hesitate to record was 'Phenis' - and I read later that Phineas was pronounced very near to Venus, at the time - and I surmise no one knew how to spell Phenis so down it went as that