Census records???

Question:I traced my fathers, mothers side back to 1740 but I cannot even get passed his father, Thomas James Dando. His fathers name was Thomas James Dando aswell. They were both from UK Wales, Tredegar and I cannot find anything! Is it because they are still uploading files and I will have to wait? or could there be just no record of them??

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I traced my fathers, mothers side back to 1740 but I cannot even get passed his father, Thomas James Dando. His fathers name was Thomas James Dando aswell. They were both from UK Wales, Tredegar and I cannot find anything! Is it because they are still uploading files and I will have to wait? or could there be just no record of them??

Do you have dates?

Name: Thomas Dando
Age in 1901: 22
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1879
Relation: Son
Father's Name: George
Mother's Name: Eliza
Gender: Male
Where born: Sunderland, Durham, England

Civil Parish: Tredegar
Ecclesiastical parish: Tredegar St George
Town: Tredegar
County/Island: Monmouthshire
Country: Wales

Name Age
Annie Dando 27
Benjamin Dando 18
Eliza Dando 48
George Dando 48
George Dando 26
Lily Dando 8
Mary E Dando 16
Thomas Dando 22

Marriages Mar 1909 (>99%)
DANDO Thomas James Bedwelty 11a152
married
PROSSER Maria Clarinda

Births Jun 1916 (71%)
Dando Thomas J Prosser Bedwellty

Siblings?

Births Mar 1918 (90%)
Dando Daisy C Prosser Bedwelty 11a 207
Births Jun 1920 (>99%)
Dando Edwris G Prosser Bedwellty 11a 270
Births Mar 1928 (44%)
Dando Clifford J J Prosser Bedwelty 11a 16

Any of this look right?

might not be any record at all or maybe try searching on another website.

If you know the address they should have been residing at check the neighbouring houses..He may have been in someone elses house!

Also try another relative, a brother or sister of Thomas as he may have been staying the night there..

The census back then listed whoever was staying in that property that night! Not necessarily only the people who lived there!
Also back then many people were missed off the census for just not being there when the census was taken, if for example he was travelling overnight to somewhere he wouldn't have been resident anywhere that night!
Some people also avoided the census people!

go to the national library and search or call an expert!

There were no census records prior to 1801, and up until the 1841 census the four census that had been taken were deemed of no use to genealogy, as they were such poor quality.
I think for this one you will have to resort to the parish records, I would do a search for the baptism of Thomas James. You can phone the archives library in Tredegar and they will point you in the right direction.
Hope this helps.

Further to 'lol primates' here's some more records of the family:

1891
Name: Thomas Dando
Age: 12
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1879
Relation: Son
Father's Name: George
Mother's Name: Eliza
Gender: Male
Where born: Durham, England
Civil Parish: Bedwellty
Ecclesiastical parish: St George
Town: Tredegar
County/Island: Monmouthshire
Country: Wales
Others:
Name Age
Annie Dando 18
Benjamine Dando 9
Eliza Dando 42
George Dando 42
George Dando 17
Joseph Dando 15
Mary E Dando 6
RG12; Piece: 4355; Folio 96; Page 9

1881
Name: Thomas Dando
Age: 2
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1879
Relation: Son
Father's Name: George
Mother's Name: Eliza
Gender: Male
Where born: Spennymoor, Durham, England

Civil Parish: Tudhoe
County/Island: Durham
Country: England
Street address: Barnfield Block

Others:
Annie E. Dando 8
Eliza Dando 32
George Dando 32
George Dando 6
Joseph Dando 4
RG11; Piece: 4957; Folio: 105; Page: 30

George is from Somerset and Eliza is from Tredegar.

Hi

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