The 1871 England Census

The British Government took the 1871 Census on the 2nd of April 1871. This page summarises, on a household basis, all of the Inkson information from the 1871 records that has been found to date. The records for 1871 do not seem to record all of the Inksons even though they were clearly alive. THI was eventually found indexed as Thomas H 'Tnkson' with a T rather than an I. Others have been found indexed as 'Jackson' [see the Martineau family below].

              

1,2 and 3 Fish Dock in Grimsby clearly have a connection to the Inksons and is presumably the start of the Grimsby Inksons but how does it all fit together? Houses #1 and #3 seem to have senior members of the Chamberlains [61 and 71 years old, respectively] and #2 has a junior member [40 years old], possibly a son of one of the others. David's wife Ann in #1 was born in Lynn [in about 1811] and George W Inkson, declared as a nephew, is living there, also born in Lynn [in about 1851]. We have no record of a George W being born around then but there is a George H registered in 1849. The real enigma is Walter J Inkson at #3 however. He is described as a son in law but is only 10 so born in about 1861, also in Lynn. He cannot be the son of George W from #1 as there is only 10 years between them. There is a birth registered in the first quarter of 1861 as Walter James. The most likely solution is that the two are brothers and are the children of John Inkson in the 1861 census [RG9-Pc1256-Fo31-Pg29-Sc143] and hence the brothers of William who is living with the Wakefields and the three siblings living as and with the Martineaus [see above].

              

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