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Residences Place of Birth Occupations Summary
Data for analysis of the 1841 census was obtained from several on line sources, which were then compared and combined to obtain a final data set:
Sources
Ancestry (A) 49
Find My Past (F) 31
Family Search (S) 40 (included lots of doubles)
UK Census on Line (U) 34
After merging obvious doubles, there were 63 records
Individuals were included if they were Pullum on the majority of records but were misrecorded as something similar on the 1841 census.
They were excluded if:
After examining the original, it was clear the name had been mistranscribed (but not a misrecorded Pullum).
OR after examining the original and doing further research, it was possible to establish that the name had been misrecorded as Pullum in 1841.
NOTE: This was more difficult than for other censuses as I was unable to check most births as they were pre civil registration in1835.
A total of 26 Individuals were excluded for these reasons.
For the reamining 37, there were 28 in my database, so had been followed through and known to be Pullums.
4 were on also in my database, but on the outliers tree.
Daniel Pullum – No other Pullum records for him found but lots for earlier, possibly his father, but also lots with similar names
Family of 3 – Baptisms for the children (Issac and Martha) were also Pullum. Both were illegitimate, no other records found for the mother, Hannah.
Of the others:
Thomas Pullum – One other record found, a baptism transcribed as as Pullom but no original image to check.
Alfred Pullum – 2nd letter may not be a u. No others people with him to help check and he was born out of the area.
Mary Pullum – No other records, but no other people with her to compare.
Mary Pullum – Difficult to read but looks like Pullum. Not with others to help identify and born out of the area.
Harriett Pullum – Similar records not Pullum but not with other people to be sure they are the same person.
Comparing those found in the searches to those on my database, there were 59 individuals that should have been on the 1841 census as Pullum.
Some may well have died but the records not found.
23 were already found in the searches.
But only one that had not turned up on those searches was able to be found. This individual (had been recorded as Pulam but other details allowed identification) was added to the dataset.
Final number analysed = 38
Gender
There were 20 males and 18 females
Age
On the 1841 census, the ages of people over 15 years old were usually rounded down to the nearest 5 years. For example, someone who was actually 24 years would have their age listed as 20, and someone who was actually 27 years old would have their age listed as 25.
In this case, actual ages were given for 2 Pullums over age 15.
The Age Range was 3 months to “80 years”.
So most were children
Relationships
(including households)
Marital status and relationship to the head of the household were not recorded on the 1841 census, so relationships had to be discovered via other records.
The 38 Pullums were in 14 households.
There were between 1 and 11 Pullums per household.
The vast majority contained one Pullum only.
Those in 6 (43%) of the households were related.
This was 68% of the people, as it included the two largest households.
Mary Pullum (nee Marriane Le Franc) was with her married daughter Charlotte, her son-in-law and 6 grandchildren.
Her eldest son Joseph had died in 1837, but 3 of the households contained his two surviving sons and one of his daughters.
(i) Eldest son Joseph was a servant in the same house as his future second wife.
(ii) Daughter Caroline, was with James Deshaw, (both servants in the same residence) whom she married in 1844, when she (and he) were recorded as widowed, as her first husband was buried 30th Jan 1842. So she should have been recorded as Caroline Walsh rather than Pullum in 1841.
(iii) Youngest son Henry, was married with a child.
Mary’s second son William, his wife and 9 children were another household, which also included William’s mother-in-law and niece (sister Harriet’s daughter).
Mary’s youngest son, Henry, and his family (wife and 7 children) were the 6th of the related households.
Residences
All except one of those that were related were in London, although two were in Lambeth, which was in Surrey at the time. The other was in St Albans, Hertfordshire, where he was a servant in what appears to be a large household.
For those unrelated, one family of 3 were in London, the rest were not. Of note is half of these were in Gloucestershire.
These 8 unrelated households consisted of two families of 3 and 6 households with only one Pullum in.
Agricultural labourer Joseph was with his wife and child in Lambeth, which is the same area as Mary Pullum (nee Marriane Le Franc)’s household.
He is also the same age as her eldest son Joseph. However, Mary’s son was a lighterman and married Elizabeth Woster. It is possible that they were somehow related but not yet proven.
The other family of 3 consists of Hannah Pullum and her two (illegitimate) children, Isaac and Martha. They are in Gloucestershire.
Also in Gloucestershire, are 2 other households:
Daniel Pullum, a brewer and Harriett Pullum, a 15 year old who appears to be with the Tyler family.
The other 4 households all contain only one Pullum:
Alfred Pullum is in London but is at school and was born out of the county.
Not far from London, in Chertsey, Surrey is 12 year old, Mary Pullum, and although born in the county, she is a servant, so there is little other information about her.
Another servant, aged 15, is another Mary Pullum, who is in Oxfordshire, which is not where she was born.
The last one is Thomas Pullum, who is in Cavendish in Suffolk. He is an Agricultural labourer.
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Birthplace
The “Where Born” column on the 1841 census, only asked two questions – 1) whether born in same county, and 2) whether born in Scotland, Ireland, or Foreign Parts. Possible answers and abbreviations to question 1 include: Yes (Y), No, (N), or Not Known (NK). For question 2, the following abbreviations were used: Scotland (S), Ireland (I), and Foreign Parts (F).
30 of the people were born in the same county in which they were residing.
8 were not (including one person where it was not recorded as such, but where there was a tick similar to those with no recorded).
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Those Born out of the county they were living in
The Mary Pullum who was in Lambeth was born out the county. She had changed her name from Marriane LeFranc.
Her father was born in Picardie, France and her parents married in 1759 in Spitalfields , where she was probably born (as her younger sister was) in 1760.
Her grandson son Joseph was also born out of the county in which he was residing in 1841. He was a male servant in St Albans at the time, but was born in Shoreditch.
His sister Caroline, was also a servant at the time, in Bethnal Green, which at the time was in Middlesex. Her place of birth varies across future censuses, but she was baptised in Stepney, which was also Middlesex at the time.
Their brother Henry, was residing in Lambeth, which at the time was in Surrey. He was baptised in Southwark, which is also Surrey, but his baptism was when he was 7 years old.
Mary/Marrianne’s daughter-in-law was in St Pancras, also at the time in Middlesex. A future census recorded her as being born in Bristol.
For the other 3, their birth details were not known but Alfred Pullum as a pupil at what appeared to be a boarding school, Mary Pullum was a servant in Oxfordshire and Thomas Pullum was an agricultural labourer in Suffolk.
Being born out of county did not seem to vary with age and gender.
Occupations
34% were working.
That is 13 had an occupation recorded.
22 had none recorded, one had “no” written, one was “independent” and another had “pupil” recorded as his occupation.
Of those not working:
12 were male and 13 female, but all of those over the age of 30 years were female.
Most of those not working were under aged 20 and most of the 11 – 20 year olds were not working. The ones who were working and under 20, were both female servants aged 12 & 15.
There were 5 working women.
Aged 12 to 45. The youngest 3 were feamle servants (marital status was not recorded but these are known to be single). The other 2 were a 35 year old laundress, who was married with 7 children and a 45 year old labourer. The latter’s marital status is unknown but she is possibly widowed as she is not with someone who could be her husband but with who is probably her 20 year old son and 14 year old daughter.
Of those working, 27% were in a trade. The rest were in manual occupations.
Summary
There were 38 Pullums on the 1841 census
20 males and 18 females
The Age Range was 3 months to “80 years”. (most were children)
The 38 Pullums were in 14 households.
There were between 1 and 11 Pullums per household.
The vast majoirty contained one Pullum only.
Those in 6 (43%) of the households were related.
This was 68% of the people, as it included the two largest households.
All except one of those that were related were in London, although two were in Lambeth, which was in Surrey at the time.
For those unrelated, one family of 3 were in London, the rest were not.
Of note is half of these were in Gloucestershire.
30 of the people were born in the same county in which they were residing.
13 had an occupation recorded.
Most of the 11 – 20 year olds were not working.
Of those not working 12 were male and 13 female, but all of those over the age of 30 years were female.
Of those working, 27% were in a trade. The rest were in manual occupations.
Updated 01.12.21