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CENSUS NOTES FOR SOME NORTH CAROLINA COUNTIES

There have been problems with some of the North Carolina Census where certain Counties were mixed up with the records of other Counties. Some of these were apparently done sometime after the original Census were taken, perhaps someone dropped the pages as they were being audited, and they were misplaced or filed under the wrong locations. But some are issues with labeling by Ancestry.com, since the images are correctly filed on FamilySearch. They have been reported to them many times, however, they currently still haven't been corrected. So Researchers be aware when identifying exactly where your ancestors were living, and be sure to look at the actual pages. If you've come across some with major location issues not mentioned here, please share with us, we'd all like to know. The following are specific Census and the issues concerning them:

The 1820 Halifax County, North Carolina Census on Ancestry is missing more than half of their pages. Their Halifax collection shows 15 images, while FamilySearch shows 37, which includes introductory and closing pages that Ancestry doesn't have. The problem: Ancestry has included 19 of the Halifax County images with the Hertford County images. They all clearly say "Halifax Co." but for some reason Ancestry has then listed as "Halifax, Hertford County, North Carolina".  Those are incorrect, no such place.

Also, for those who don't know, one of the Townships listed as "Farr River District" on both Ancestry and FamilySearch for 1840 Granville County is incorrect; it should read "Tar River District". That has been mistranscribed in a number of places but this was named after the river that runs through the area.
 

An update on an entry had included here since 2017.
Part of 1840 Warren County Census was incorrectly filed as Washington County, NC, so several pages have residents listed as Washington County, but were actually in Warren County. My original notation written on an ancestor in 2015 when reported to Ancestry. Those pages are now FIXED!
 


The rest of these I want to give my thanks to genealogist Kianga Lucas who shared these errors found in several Census years which were errors done on the Census.

Parts of the 1820 Granville County Census was incorrectly filed as Guilford County. Kianga wrote extensively about these in her blog in 2015:

https://nativeamericanroots.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/cleaning-up-the-1820-census-of-granville-county/

The 1840 census for Granville County was divided by district but they put all FPOC (Free People of Color) in a separate “district” just titled "Granville". Okay.
But with FPOC who resided in white households they didn’t get included in those named districts but got put in the general FPOC district. So they’re still listed under the head of household name (a white person) but that’s not their name.

So I used to get so confused because I would see someone enumerated for example as a free colored woman age range 26-44, but the name on the census was like Henry Smith. That’s because whomever this free colored woman was resided in the household of Henry Smith.

The State Census of North Carolina 1784-1787.
Beaver Dam District of Granville is listed under Tyrrell County on pages 159-160. It reads "Number of Inhabitants in Beaverdam District, Taken by John Pope 1786".
 

BTW, If you're looking for direct links to specific Census records and images, this link has them for both FamilySearch and Ancestry:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/North_Carolina_Census

 

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FOUND IN THE DIARY OF CHRISTOPHER NICHOLAS RIGGAN (1852-1922)
Page 81:
October 27, 1918
The 29th of Sept was a terible battle with Warrenton Co in France. A great many Killed & wounded in Battle with the Germans. 4 Killed from Warrenton- LEON POWELL, CRAWLY ROBERTSON LUTHER BALL wounded, ROBT LEE ALSTON Killed

November 11, 1918
This terrible war closed between U.S. Allies & Germany 2 A.M.

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