Family and Household Composition in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Moncton, New Brunswick 1851 to 1871

1979 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheva Medjuck
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Household Composition ◽  
Family And Household

Reading The 1835 Parish Censuses from Bahia: Citizenship, Kinship, Slavery, and Household in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil

2003 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.J. Barickman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Household Composition ◽  
Qualitative Information ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
The Status ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Ideological Assumptions

Since the late 1960s, a growing number of studies have drawn on local manuscript censuses, also known as household or nominal lists, to reshape the historiography of late colonial and early nineteenth-century Brazil. While many of those studies focus on family or household composition, manuscript censuses have also been used to explore topics ranging from proto-industrialization and demographic trends to patterns of slaveholding and the status of women. In working with this documentation, scholars have generally restricted themselves to quantitative analyses; they have seldom devoted much explicit attention to the format of censuses and to the categories found in them. As a result, the ideological assumptions and political concerns that census-takers in late colonial and early nineteenthcentury Brazil brought to bear in enumerating, classifying, and ordering the population have remained largely unexplored topics. To detect those assumptions and concerns, we need to go beyond quantification and to read Brazilian manuscript censuses for the qualitative information they contain. At the very least, reading censuses qualitatively holds out the possibility of raising questions that complement and enhance the findings from the more familiar quantitative studies.

The National Sample from the 1851 Census of Great Britain: Sampling and data handling procedures

Urban History ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 55-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Anderson ◽  
Brenda Collins ◽  
Craig Stott
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Household Head ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Household Composition ◽  
Voluntary Association ◽  
Marriage Patterns ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Age Of Marriage

Over the past two decades the enumerators' books of the nineteenth-century censuses have rightly become one of the major sources for the study of nineteenth-century social structure. Containing as they do, for the whole population of Great Britain, information on name, residence, marital status, relationship to household head, sex, age, occupation, birthplace and infirmity of sight or hearing, they have made possible a wide range of studies of, for example, patterns of residence, household composition, occupational structure, migration, age of marriage, patterns of education and farm labour utilization. Linked to other sources or bodies of material they have been used in studies of class consciousness, voting, voluntary association membership, property ownership and development, farming, poverty, the employment of married women and servant keeping, to name but a few.

Prize and Prejudice

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faye Margaret Kert
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
North America ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
War Of 1812 ◽  
Atlantic Canada ◽  
Legal Evolution ◽  
Negative Reputation

This journal examines privateering and naval prizes in Atlantic Canada in the maritime War of 1812 - considered the final major international manifestation of the practice. It seeks to contextualise the role of privateering in the nineteenth century; determine the causes of, and reactions to, the War of 1812; determine the legal evolution of prize law in North America; discuss the privateers of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and the methods they utilised to manipulate the rules of prize making during the war; and consider the economic impact of the war of maritime communities. Ultimately, the purpose of the journal is to examine privateering as an occupation in order to redeem its historically negative reputation. The volume is presented as six chapters, plus a conclusion appraising privateering, and seven appendices containing court details, prize listings, and relevant letters of agency.

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