Amanuensis Monday

A  man named John Newmark is the original creator  of the concept of a weekly amanuensis blog but other bloggers have joined in.  HERE is the original explanation of the concept.  I am the worlds worst skimmer when it comes to reading.  And the harder the item is to read the less of it I take my time and read word for word.   Therefore I know this would be a very worthwhile exercise for me to do once a week.  My lack of self discipline will probably not allow it to happen on a weekly basis but whatever I do get transcribed will help me to read that document carefully.  I have been very fortunate that I have a friend who loves to type and often will type things up for me.  But to do some of them myself will help me to look at the documents more carefully. If the reader clicks on the census record they should be able to see it more clearly.  Or it can be located and viewed HERE.  

1870 Census for Samuel and George Rairigh

There is always more information on a census record than meets the eye.  This record is from 1870 Darke County, Ohio.  Although both Samuel and George Rairigh are on this census I am going to transcribe Samuel's household because he is my direct ancestor.  

Starting at the top

Page No 57

Inquires numbered 7, 16, and 17 are not to be asked in respect to infants. Inquires numbered 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, and 20 are to be answered (if at all)  merely by an affirmative mark as /.

Schedule 1. - Inhabitants in Adams Township, in the county of Darke, State of Ohio,  enumerated by me on the 8th day of July, 1870.

Post Office: Gettysburg  Wm E George Ass't Marshal.

1- dwellings homes numbered in the order of visitation

2 - families numbered in the order of visitation

3 - name of every person whose place of abode on this first day of June 1870 was in this family

4- age at last birthday. If under one year give age in fraction, thus 3/12

5 - sex Males (M.) Females (F).

6 - color White (W), Black (B), Mulatto (M)< Chinese (C), Indian

7 - Occupation or trade of each person male or female

Value of Real Estate Owned

8 - Value of Real Estate

9 - Value of personal estate

10 - Place of birth, naming State or Territory of US; or the country, if of foreign birth. 

Parentage

11- father of foreign birth

12 - mother of foreign birth

13 - if born within the year state month (Jan Feb &c)

14- if married within the year state month (Jan Feb &c)

15 - attended school within the year

Education

16 - cannot read

17 - cannot write

18 - whether deaf, dumb, blind, insane or idiotic

Constitutional relations

19 - Male citizen of the US of 21 years of age and upwards

20 - Male citizen of the US of 21 years of age and upwards whose right to vote is denied or abridged on other grounds than rebellion or other crime

Surnames listed Meyer, Leechner, Schmidtt. 

then skipping down to line 11

461-450

Rairigh Samuel

age 54, white, male, farmer,  $2408 value in real estate, $844 value in personal goods, born in Pennsylvania, parents were born in this country,  can read and write, is not deaf, dumb, blind, insane or idiotic, a male citizen 

Rairigh, Barbara age 50, white, female, keeping house,  no value in possessions or real estate, born in Pennsylvania, parents were born in this country,  can read but not write, is not deaf, dumb, blind, insane or idiotic, a male citizen 

Rairigh James Q age 19, male, white, farm hand, no real estate value but $200 value in personal goods, born in Pennsylvania and parents were born in this country,  can read and write

Rairigh Mary age 17 female, white, helps mother, born in Pennsylvania and parents were born in this country,  attended school in the last year, can read and write

Rairigh Margaret age 14, female, white, attending school, born in Pennsylvania and parents were born in this country,  attended school in the last year, can read and write

Rairigh Sarah age 9, female, white, attending school, born in Ohio and parents were born in this country,  attended school in the last year, can read and write

Below Samuel Rairigh's family is the family of his son George.  Other surnames on the page are: Rohr, Koster, Bryon, Porter, Patterson, and Hertzler.  

The bottom of the page says:

Number of dwellings - 8

Number of families - 8

Number of white males - 20

Number of white females - 20

Number of colored males - 0

Number of colored females - 0

Number of males foreign born - 4

Number of females foreign born - 5

Numbers of blind - 0

17143

9576

Number of insane - 0

I always find the census records interesting.  Each time they were taken the information gathered was different.  The census records provide an interesting snap shot of a family through out their lifetimes.