THE LILLYWHITE GENEALOGICAL DATA - TABLES
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This file contains links to pages of data of births/baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials, a.html and miscellaneous data. Each table is an extract from our database, which comprises records freely available to the public (if you know where to look!). The main sources are the IGI, direct extracts from Parish and related records, and from National birth, marriage and death civil records.
Many individuals have also contributed to providing data. The earlier contributors are listed under acknowledgements, but since then many others have submitted data and the numbers are now too great to list.
Most of the data has been collected by hand. Since then, a significant quantity of it has become available electronically via various Government web sites or web sites maintained by other organizations. If you find a datum that is important for you, you may wish to confirm its accuracy via one of these web sites. If any inaccuracy in our data is fond we would appreciate a correction.
A Note on the Reference System
Each piece of data has a unique reference. This comprises 8 digits. The first 4 are the year the record was originally made. The fifth indicates the event (1=birth; 2=baptism; 3=marriage;5=death; 6=burial;7=census; 9=Miscellaneous). The last 3 are the number of the record in our database (Thus 18517132 is a census record for 1851 and is the 132nd record entered for the 1851 census).
Some Notes on the Data
The data is an extract from our database. This database includes some 80% of the individual items of genealogical data that we hold on Lillywhites. The remaining 20% is held in a "Family Tree Maker" file and will in due course also be entered into our database. We have not included on our Web site any births/baptisms after 1929, nor marriages after 1950, but will provide on request additional data up to 1994. Where we have extracted data from the National BDM Register (extracted by hand when it was held in St Catherine's House) we have included the National Register Index reference (Volume, Page, Quarter etc) unless it makes the file too large. Please feel free to email us for any additional data that we might have.
Dates, Ages, and Year of Birth (YOB)
Dates are as shown in the original source consulted. In some cases it is difficult to read the originals due to handwriting or deterioration of the original manuscript. The Ages shown are in some cases those given in the original record, and in some cases calculated from the YOB where it is shown in the record. Sometimes the age is shown (eg in Census data) in which case the YOB is calculated. Where the YOB is calculated, it can be wrong by one year. Of course, the age or YOB can also be wrong if the original informant mis-stated the age, as is sometimes the case!
Accuracy. There are many reasons for data being inaccurate. The original informant may have made a mistake, or deliberately mis-stated a fact; the individual making the record may have made an error; we may have transcribed the data incorrectly; or where we have copied the data electronically, the individual putting in the record may have made an error.
Duplicates. We have sought to remove duplicate records from our Web pages. Duplicate records are those on the same event obtained from two different sources. These have mainly occurred when we have input a record manually, and obtained the same record electronically. We have only removed records where we are reasonably certain they are duplicates (though we retain all records in our database). Where there is doubt, we have not removed the possible duplicate.
Census Information
We continue to have difficulty deciding how to order the Census information. Prior to October 2005, we decided to order them by head of house and then those in the same house. We have now returned to ordering them by county and then by Head of Household, but there are some inconsistencies of which readers should be aware, for example whether somewhere is categorised as "London" or "Middlesex". In fact to make full use of the census data it needs to be copied into a database or spreadsheet and sorted using various fields (eg place of birth) and no one categorisation is superior to another.
The head of house is designated as "head". The relationship of others in the household to the head is given, as well as a cross reference to the unique Reference number of the head of the house.
Where there is either no identified head (eg in an institution), or the head has not been recorded (through omission or due to the head being considered irrelevant), a cross reference to a dummy head is given, usually in the form yyyy7000 pr yyyy7001 where "yyyy" is the census year.
The YOB is calculated from the stated age. Note the specific comments in the 1841 Census table.
If readers would prefer the tables to be ordered in a different way, plese email us.
Acknowledgements
The data has been collected from the following sources:
- Public Record Offices, both in London and the counties.
- Local History Sections of Public Libraries.
- Data available on the Internet.
- The IGI.
A number of individuals have also contributed either considerable amounts of data, or assisted with interpretation of the data, or both. These include:
- Mrs Rachel Fletcher of Chichester, mainly on Sussex Lillywhites.
- Mrs Sheila Storey of Colchester.
- Mrs Barbara Coe of Australia.
- Mrs Hazel Woodford of the Isle of Wight.
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Data
| Birth & Baptism | Marriage | Death & Burial | Census | Miscellaneous |
| To 1800 | To 1850 | To 1880 | 1841 | All Years |
| 1801 - 1835 | 1851 - 1913 | 1881 - 1920 | 1851 | |
| 1836 - 1871 | 1914 - 1950 | 1921 - 1949 | 1861 | |
| 1872 - 1900 | 1950 - 1994 | 1871 | ||
1901 - 1930 |
1881 | |||
| 1891 | ||||
| 1901 |