1891 Census

The 1891 Census for England was taken on the night of 5th April 1891. Everyone who had spent the night in the property should have been listed including people who were just visiting for the night.

Enumeration forms were distributed to all households a couple of days before census night and the completed forms were collected the next day. If the head of the household had any problems completing the form the enumerator would assist as much as necessary. All of the details from the individual forms were later sorted and copied into enumerators’ books, which are the records we can view images of today. The original householders’ schedules were destroyed.

The census was carried out by splitting Martham into two districts for administrative purposes. The Enumerator for district 1 was Anthony William Crisp (1860-1931) who lived at The Jasmines, Staithe Road and assisted his father who was a surgeon. Mr F Dayns was the Enumerator for district 2.
District 1 was described as follows: Part of the Parish of Martham from and including the Hamlet of Damgate, Moregrove Farm, Boat Staithe, Thunderhill Farm, The Grange with houses at the back, The Rectory, the Railway Gate Houses to Rose Cottage, Gown’s Brick Ground, Bracey’s Buildings, Repps Road as far as Lacey’s House. Clarks Farm with the road at the back of the Church leading to Somerton. District 2 was described as follows: Part of the Parish of Martham from and including the Mills to Gibbet Hill and Dairy Barn Farm. The Hall, Daniels farm (by Rollesby), both sides of Rollesby Road including Jay’s House. The Green. Both sides of Black Street commencing at the Post Office by the Vicarage, Somerton Road as far as Myhill’s House. The Back Road leading to the Mills, Bell Yard, White Street including Martham House, Sutfield House to Debbage’s warehouse with the road on the east side of The Green finishing at Chubbock’s House in the Hall Lane.
There are 39 pages listing 1,182 people plus two pages that describe the districts.

Below is a table of all those recorded for Martham. This can be sorted using the arrows at the top of each column. There are dozens of pages so you may like to use the ‘search’ facility.