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But although the commissioners were pleasantly minute and clear in their
instructions for filling up their circulars, they will still be wide
away from the real statistics of the population, when all the bills are
returned and the totals properly added. What industrious enumerator, we
would ask, did, with praiseworthy indefatigability, leave a schedule
at the temporary habitations of the thousand individuals who on the
Monday in question were located upon Ascot Heath, in anticipation of
the approaching races? Who dared to penetrate into the mysteries of the
yellow caravans there collected, or invade the Bohemian seclusion of the
tilted hovels? What account was taken of the roadside tent-holders, and
the number of the families of these real "potwallopers?" Is the following
paper relating to these people, which has fallen into our hands, the
mislaid document of a careless enumerator of the Sunning-hill district,
or is it an attempt to play upon our credulity:
(COPY.)
Name, (if any) of the House, or of the Village or } Caravan, No. 937,654.
Hamlet in which it stands. }
Name of the Street or other part of the Town, (if in } Winkfield Lane.
a Town), and No. of the House. }
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Name and | | |Of what |If born |If born
surname of each| Age | | Profession, | in the | in
person who | of | Age | Trade, or | County. |Ireland,
abode or slept | Males.| of | Employment, | |
in this House | | Females.| or if of | |&c.
on the night | | | Independent | |
of June 6. | | | means. | |
----------------+-------+---------+--------------+---------+---------
Bill Soames | 45 | |Shoman. | No |don't Kno
| | | | |
Mary Soames | | 38 |Wife--vurks | No | No
| | | the barrul | |
| | | horgan outside| |
Gipsy Mike |not | |None. | No |No veres
| Nown | | | | pertickler
Phelim Conolly | 35 | |Black vild |not | never Knowd
| | | ingian. | sartin |
Sarah Cooper | | 24 |tellin off | No |
| | | fortuns. | |
Young Chubby a | 2 | |ired fur the |St. Giles's|
babby | | | Races. | |
Brummagim Harry | 40 | |keeps a | Yes |
| | | Thimble-rig. | |
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