{"id":895,"date":"2006-12-20T23:30:38","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T06:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/20\/is-this-john-rawding-in-the-1911-census-of-canada\/"},"modified":"2016-07-23T11:18:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T18:18:13","slug":"is-this-john-rawding-in-the-1911-census-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/895","title":{"rendered":"Is this John Rawding in the 1911 Census of Canada?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After finding the family of John Rawding in the 1901 Census of Canada,\u00a0I searched for the family in the 1911 Census, but couldn&#8217;t find the family .\u00a0 I did find a John Rawding in Nova Scotia in 1911, but he is in Halifax County, not Kings County, and he is listed alone as an inmate\u00c2\u00a0in Nova Scotia Hospital .\u00a0 The rest of his family is nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"1911 Census Record for John Rawding - Left\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/CCA-1911-Rawding-John-L.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image892\" style=\"width: 456px; height: 137px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/CCA-1911-Rawding-John-L.jpg\" alt=\"1911 Census Record for John Rawding - Left\" width=\"456\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>1911 Census Record for\u00c2\u00a0John\u00c2\u00a0Rawding (Left Side)<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"1911 Census Record for John Rawding - Right\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/CCA-1911-Rawding-John-R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image893\" style=\"width: 458px; height: 134px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/CCA-1911-Rawding-John-R.jpg\" alt=\"1911 Census Record for John Rawding - Right\" width=\"458\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>1911 Census Record for\u00c2\u00a0John\u00c2\u00a0Rawding (Right Side)<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>SOURCE: John Rawding, 1911 Canada Census, Schedule 1, Nova Scotia, District No. 45 &#8211; Halifax County, Sub-District No. 4 &#8211; Cole Harbour, Dwelling House 90, Family or Household 96, Page 17, Line 13, Library and Archives Canada Micropublication T-20359.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Click on the link for a PDF Copy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/CCA-Rawding-John-1911.pdf\">Canada Census Record for John Rawding &#8211; 1911<\/a> .\u00a0 The record shows that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">John Rawding is listed as an inmate in the Nova Scotia Hospital in Cole Harbour, Halifax County, Nova Scotia<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">John is 53 years old and a widower<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">John was born in Nova Scotia, was of Scotch origin, Canadian nationality, Baptist religion, and could read and write<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">He was a lumberman by trade<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">Some of the information (Dwelling Number, Family Number, and Place of Habitation) are not listed on this page of the census, but are listed on page 10, where the enumeration of the residents of the Nova Scotia Hospital begins .\u00a0 In addition, some of the information (Place of Birth, Racial Origin, Nationality, and Religion) are noted on line 13 by ditto marks and are inferred from the lines above John Rawdings enumeration.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The location of this John Rawding in Nova Scotia is a good sign, but he is in Halifax County, not Kings County .\u00a0 He is, however, in the hospital in 1911 which may explain why he is in a different county.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">John&#8217;s age is about right, and it is quite possible his wife died between 1901 and 1911, leaving him a widower .\u00a0 The birthplace of Nova Scotia is correct, and\u00c2\u00a0his Scotch origin, Canadian nationality, Baptist religion, and ability to read and write\u00c2\u00a0are all consistent with what is written in other records.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">His occupation, however, is listed as &#8220;lumberman&#8221; in 1911 .\u00a0 In 1901 he was a farmer .\u00a0 Did John change occupations?<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The questions remain, is this the correct John Rawding?\u00c2\u00a0 Most of the information seems to match up, but the occupation is different .\u00a0 And, if this is John Rawding, where are his children?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Copyright \u00a9 2006 Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finding the family of John Rawding in the 1901 Census of Canada,\u00a0I searched for the family in the 1911 Census, but couldn&#8217;t find the family .\u00a0 I did find a John Rawding in Nova Scotia in 1911, but he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/895\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[120],"tags":[422],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rawding","tag-nova-scotia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-er","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20436,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/20436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}