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Sample household from the 1851 Census of Carlisle for Botchergate

Location	Surname	Name	Relation to head of household	Age	Marital status	Occupation	Where born
Botch 007	Birney	Jas	Head	42	M	Innkeeper	Carlisle
Botch 007	Birney.	My	Wife	40	M		Carlisle
Botch 007	Graham.	Ann	Niece	14	U	Scholar	Carlisle
Botch 007	Tedcastle.	Margt	Servant	22	U	House serv	Scotland
Botch 007	Forster.	Eliz	Servant	24	U	House serv	Carlisle
Botch 007	Read.	Eliz	Servant	22	U	House serv	Rockliff
Botch 007	Johnston	Robt	Servant	56	U	Ostler	Walton
Botch 007	Rutherford	Wm	Lodger	23	M	Trainer of horses	Scotland
Botch 007	Rutherford.	My	Lodger	23	M		Scotland
Botch 007	Buckland	Edw	Lodger	30	U	Groom	Scotland

Botchergate was, and still is, one of Carlisle's main thoroughfares. According to the 1851 Census of Carlisle there were 1176 people living in 227 households. The street included a workhouse.

All the material from the census has been reproduced in the database except the final column disabilty, as there were so few recorded in that category.

As a database, a tremendous amount of searching and sorting is possible, although there have been some guesses made in some cases. As usual the enumerator's writing was not all that clear in places.

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Prisoners in the 1851 census

There were of course all walks of like recorded in the census. An on-going project is to compile a database of C19th institutions including prisons and workhouses. The Botchergate example contains a workhouse (see above).

Examples from three prisons ; Carlisle ; Northallerton & Wakefield

Carlisle Gaol contains 131 inmates and staff click for a sample gaol1.htm

Northallerton house of correction contains 220 inmates and staff click for a sample gaol2.htm

Wakefield Gaol contains 1000 inmates and staff click for a sample gaol3.htm

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