1901 Census - he isn't on it?

Question:My GGF was serving with the Royal Navy when the 1901 census was taken ( I have the naval records from the National Archive) - is there any record taken by the census controllers to indicate this, and where am I likely to view it? I know that Army battalions based in the UK are shown on the return, but not sure about Naval Personel.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: My GGF was serving with the Royal Navy when the 1901 census was taken ( I have the naval records from the National Archive) - is there any record taken by the census controllers to indicate this, and where am I likely to view it? I know that Army battalions based in the UK are shown on the return, but not sure about Naval Personel.

Navy personnel are usually on the census if they were in UK waters at the time of the census, the same as fishing boats - they started being recorded from 1861 onwards, but only if they were moored in UK waters on census night. They are treated the same way as prison, hospital and workhouse returns, and usually added on the end of the nearest registration district. If the boat was in UK waters then a sheet would have been filled in and it would be available with the rest of the UK census at Ancestry and whereever and easily searchable. If the ship was in foreign waters at the time it would have probably been missed off the census and gone unrecorded.

x. not that i am aware of, good luck just traced some of my family back to 1850 very interesting. x

Was he on board ship in March 1901?
For example, my father's records show that he was on board HMS Impregnable 07Feb 1922 to 05Jan1923.
He won't show on the Census for 1931 (I won't be around to see that released - I'd be 107!) because he was aboard HMS Walker from 11Nov1930 to 31Dec1931.
The archivists at Kew may have the answer if you don't get one from here, or, I got my father's details from the Ministry of Defence.

To the best of my knowledge every Man woman and child should have been counted if they were in England & Wales.

GGF could have been at sea or in Scotland or abroad, If you have his Navel were was he on census night.

Good luck and good hunting

I think you can be optimistic.
A brother of my g-g-grandfather in 1861 was onboard HMS Gannet in Constantinople, and was still recorded in the English census.
Have you looked him up on the Ancestry.co.uk indexes? If not, and you'd like me to, let me know his name, and where and when he was born.