From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 14:28:20, john    
   wrote (my responses usually follow points raised):   
   []   
   >It would be interesting to see another copy of the schedule, especially   
   >if it was available in colour. It is seems from other pages some of it   
   >could originally have been completed from notes in pencil and/or a very   
   >poor pen and then completed afterwards.   
   []   
   The instructions to enumerators (I happen to have an example from the   
   first written page of a census book, so I have a copy of the facing page   
   with the instructions on; I'm sure plenty of others do too) includes the   
   words "with the pencil provided". It's always amused me - makes me think   
   things can't have been very good in 1841 (and/or, census enumerators   
   weren't very well paid) if a pencil had to be provided. From the few   
   cases I have where I _do_ have a colour image (presumably the microfilm   
   was _too_ badly degraded, or lost, or the book was never filmed), they   
   mostly _are_ in pencil (which makes it amazing they've survived as well   
   as they have).   
      
   Does sound as if this particular scribe just had bad writing. (He   
   certainly wasn't alone in that.)   
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   Every time I think I know where it's at, they move it.   
      
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