1 The 1911 Census for Horsell Introduction The 1911 census was taken on the night of Sunday 2nd April 1911.This transcription has been compiled using the www.findmypast.co.uk website. The website includes its own transcription but this is sufficiently inaccurate to make it necessary to check each entry. Every attempt has been made to interpret names and other details correctly but where this has proved impossible a suggestion has usually been made in red as to the actual word. I am indebted to Richard Christophers for having checked and identified certain difficult words using Ancestry co.uk. Although every effort has been made to make this transcription as accurate as possible, it is always wise to check a record before relying on its accuracy. To do this using www.findmypast.co.uk it is necessary to pay whatever charges are required by this commercial website. To find the address in which you are interested you should click Search records then Census, land & surveys and elect to search by address. Enter Horsell under residential place and press search. This should enable you to find the address on the following screens. As has been the case in previous censuses the census is in two Sections each unfortunately having been given the same numbering system 1-334 (first) and 1-315 (second). To help find in which Section a particular address occurs, a list of streets is shown at the beginning of each Section with a note as to the page on which these can be found. Unfortunately sometimes the division between the two Sections runs down the middle of a road as a result of which the street name appears in both lists. This census called for much more information in respect of households than had been required by earlier censuses and moreover required each head of household to complete a form providing that fuller information. Thus the difficulty of interpretation is far greater than it has been with earlier censuses. In the earlier Horsell censuses there had been probably been just two enumerators extracting information. In1911 there were as many different types of handwriting as there were households. The number of rooms occupied by each individual household is shown in blue under the item number of each household. The instruction with regard to rooms is to enter the Number of Rooms in this Dwelling (House, Tenement or Apartment).Count the kitchen as a room but not count scullery, landing, lobby, closet, bathroom; nor warehouse, office, shop. Where * is shown against a particular address this usually means that the house probably has multi-occupancy but this does not mean that the property has been physically divided. 2 There is a column showing the number of years a couple have been married. The number of children born to each marriage together the number of those children still living is shown in green in the format x.y where x is the number born and y the number surviving. N means no child born of the marriage. This particular item seems to have confused many of the householders causing a considerable number of “crossings out”. Addresses have been checked against the Woking News and Mail 1919 Year Book. This publication has helped to confirm the names of occupiers and spellings of house names. The enumerators’ lists of addresses gives the names of uninhabited and non-residential properties which are not subject to the census. This information is shown in mauve on the transcription and helps establish the likely street scene. The entries do not seem always to have been entered in a logical order but this transcription is arranged in the same order as the original and no attempt has been made to correct the order of entries. Two items are worthy of mention, item No.255 in Ferndale Drive, a home for unmarried mothers run by Winchester and then Guildford diocese and item No.266 in The Grove, one boarder who refuses to give any information about herself because she wishes in this way to protest against women not having the vote. There are ten columns in the transcription viz item number address name position status years age occupation county parish including in eg married or or town number of household married, country rooms, children eg head, single, of birth born and living wife, son widow Space has necessitated that abbreviations should be used wherever possible and these are largely self explanatory. You should note, however, that lab = labourer, d in l = daughter in law, M = married, S = single, s in l = son in law or sister in law according to sex and w = widow or widower. Sources The Woking Collection, West Surrey Family History Society Woking News & Mail 1919 Year Book. Phillip Arnold August 2012 3 First Section pages 1 to 334 Albany Road 49 Brewery Road 73-74 Broomhall Road 55-58, 67-68 Castle Road 46-48 Cheapside 32-35, 36-40 Chobham Road 54-55, 71-72 Church Hill (Red Lion side) 74-76 Elm Road 49-51 Ferndale Road 58-64 Grange Road 43-44 Grove, The 64-67, 68-71 Horsell Common 44-46 Horsell Birch 25-29, 82 Horsell Park 81 Horsell Rise 35-36, 76-78 Horsell Street aka High Street (Red Lion side) 3-7, 9-10, 21. 25, 81-82 Kettlewell 54 Kettlewell Hill 40-43 Ridgeway 78-81 Russell Road 21-25 South Road 10-21 Thornash Road 7-9 Viggorys 29-32 Woodham Road 48-49, 51-54 Horsell Street 1 Red Lion BROWN Jane head M 21 47 landlady Bucks Winston 12 Hotel N GARDNER asst w 68 assisting in bar Hants Amport James BAXTER Eva maid S 20 general servant London Fulham 3.3 JAMES Minnie sinl M 8 39 Bucks Winston JAMES Dorothy niece 5 Hants Tythely JAMES Gladys niece 4 Hants Tythely JAMES Vinan son 0 Hants Tythely 4 ROWLEDGE asst S 30 assisting in bar Hants Romsey Charles 2 The Institute LANSLEY head M 51 gardener Hants Tangley 5 Walter 1.1 LANSLEY wife M 21 42 Oxon Caversham Elizabeth Parish Hall 3 Lime House HART Hosea head M 48 butcher Surrey Horsell 4 N HART May wife M 6 56 Surrey Woking Butchers shop 4 1 Grove STEER head M 37 56 monthly nurse Canada 2 Cottages* Elizabeth 7.5 5 1 Grove FOSBERRY head M 36 bricklayers lab Hants Dummer 3 Cottages* Alfred N FOSBERRY wife M 11 37 Berks Swallowfield Ellen JAMIESON v 26 carpenter Surrey Knaphill Peter Dennis 6 2 Grove HENWOOD head M 39 attendant lunatic London Lambeth 5 Cottages Harry asylum 1.1 HENWOOD wife M 2 36 assistant school Surrey Worplesdon Mary Ellen mistress HENWOOD son 1 Surrey Horsell Harry OTTOWAY finl w 72 jobbing gardener Surrey Sutton Henry 7 3 Grove COOK Henry W head M 46 gardener Beds Woburn 5 Cottages 2.1 COOK Beatrice wife M 7 48 London Knightsbridge COOK Harry J son S 19 gardener Kent Bromley COOK Charles son S 16 clerk Herts Watford F COOK Reginald son 13 school Beds Woburn V COOK George son 11 school Hants Fleet H 5 COOK Harold S son 5 school Surrey Horsell 8 4 Grove GWILLIAM head w 55 private means Surrey Nutfield 5 Cottages Emily Henrietta GWILLIAM daug S 21 needleworker Surrey Deepdene Estate Ellen Ethel Dorking SMART Harry ldr S 19 baker Sussex Arundel 9 5 Grove VOKES Henry head M 37 baker grocer Hants Eastleigh 6 Cottages Victor confectioner 5.3 Bakers VOKES Eva wife M 16 42 assisting in the Hants Headbourne Worth Shop Jane business VOKES daug 15 assisting in the Scholing Southampton Dorothy Eva business Alice VOKES Ronald son 12 school Hants Eastleigh George VOKES Edward son 8 Hants Winchester George Frederick 10 Escairs HOWARD head M 68 small nurseryman Surrey Horsell 7 Richard 8.7 HOWARD Jane wife M 46 67 Surrey Horsell HOWARD Eva daug S 27 dressmaker Surrey Horsell HACKER bdr S 32 shopkeeper oil Kent St Johns Place William stores 11 1 Platt SHURVEN head M 33 gardeners lab Surrey Guildford 4 Cottage William N SHURVEN wife M 6 28 St Johns Woking Elizabeth CHOWNEY bro M 27 nurserymans lab St Johns Woking Albert 1.0 CHOWNEY sinl M 4 21 Kent Chatham Rhoda 12 2 Platt COBBETT head M 42 gardener Surrey Horsell 5 Cottage Frederick 4.4 COBBETT wife M 18 45 Staffs Rugeley Sarah Anne COBBETT son S 16 gardener Surrey Horsell Alexander COBBETT daug 10 school Surrey Horsell Gladys 6 COBBETT son 2 Surrey Horsell Frederick COBBETT daug 6 Surrey Horsell Doris m KING William nephew 7 Surrey Horsell BILD George ldr S 77 farm lab Surrey Woking 13 Newbury POCOCK head M 35 plasterer Sussex Old Town Eastbourne 5 George 5.4 POCOCK Lottie wife M 12 32 Hants Portsmouth POCOCK Grace daug 8 Kent Charlton POCOCK son 6 Kent Greenwich George POCOCK Linda daug 5 Surrey Woking POCOCK Olive daug 2 Surrey Horsell JACQUES ldr S 32 plasterers lab Surrey Haslemere William 14 Alvercot HARRISON head M 34 plasterer Hants Boscombe 5 Thomas F 2.1 HARRISON wife M 11 33 Surrey Ripley Caroline E HARRISON son 1 Surrey Horsell Harold Vernon 15 West View NEWELL head M 44 retired baker Bucks Princes Risboro 5 James N NEWELL Mary wife M 20 51 Surrey Ockley Hannah 16 Redcot WELLBELOVE head M 35 jobbing gardener Surrey Englefield Green 5 Edward Henry 3.3 WELLBELOVE wife M 6 33 Surrey Egham Elizabeth Jane WELLBELOVE daug 5 Surrey Horsell Eva Elizabeth Alice WELLBELOVE daug 2 Surrey Horsell Elsie May WELLBELOVE son 1 Surrey Horsell Edward William Uninhabited building 17 St Cyr COBBETT head M 35 Clerk, Public Surrey Horsell 7 7 Albert Trustee Office,cashier 3.3 COBBETT wife M 5 34 Surrey Horsell Caroline COBBETT daug 4 Surrey Horsell Brenda COBBETT daug 3 Sussex Burwash Winifred COBBETT daug 1 Surrey Horsell Marjorie CROSS ladys S 17 nursery governess India Florence help 18 Thornash SPLEEN head M 56 retired civil Surrey Byfleet 7 Newton servant 4.4 SPLEEN Emma wife M 20 50 India Alipore Bengal Frances 19 Birchwood BROOKS David head M 30 butcher Hants Portsmouth 7 1.1 BROOKS Mary wife M 2 30 Worcs Dayton Kathrine BROOKS