Information contained in the 1880 Federal Census Records = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The following information may be available from the header area of each page of the 1880 Federal Census images. Not every data field was used on every page. These first items relate to information filled in by the census taker: Page No. Supervisor's Dist. No. Enumeration Dist. No. Location (Township, Village, City) County State Date Enumerators Name When the pages were recorded or microfilmed the following information was "stamped" in the header area of each page: The letters "A", "B", "C", and "D" were cycled and stamped on the pages. "A" and "C" were stamped on the front side of pages and "B" and "D" were stamped on the back side of pages. This cycle was repeatedly used - thus: Page within Enumeration Stamped District Letter ----------- ------- 1, 5, 9, ... A 2, 6, 10, ... B 3, 7, 11, ... C 4, 8, 12, ... D At some other time, a page number was stamped on the front side of each page. A "side of the page" label ("A" or "B") was also added to each page. The following listing is the information content of each data column. Each side of a page allowed the listing of 50 people. LOCATION - Name of Street - House Number 1 Dwelling Number (in the order visited) 2 Family Number (in the order visited) 3 Name of every person whose usual place of aboce on the first day of June, 1880 was in this family. PERSONAL DESCRIPTION 4 Color - White, Black, Mulatto, Chinese, Indian 5 Sex - Male, Female 6 Age at last birthday prior to June 1, 1880. If under 1 year, give months in fractions, thus 2/12 7 If born within the Census year, give month 8 Relationship of each person to the head of this family - whether wife, son, daughter, servant, boarder or other CIVIL CONDITION 9 Single 10 Married 11 Widowed or Divorced 12 Married during Census Year OCCUPATION 13 Profession, Occupation, or Trade of each person, male and female. 14 Number of monthis this person has been unemployed during the Census year. HEALTH 15 Is the person (on the day of the numerator's visit) sick or temporarily disabled, so as to be unable to attend to ordinary business or duties? If so, what is the sickness or disability? 16 Blind 17 Deaf and Dumb 18 Idiotic 19 Insane 20 Maimed, Crippled, Bedridden, or otherwise disabled 21 Place of Birth, naming State or Territory of U.S.; or the Country, if of foreign birth. EDUCATION 22 Attended school within the Census year 23 Cannot read 24 Cannot write NATIVITY 25 Place of birth of this person... 26 Place of Birht of the FATHER of this person... 27 Place of Birth of the MOTHER of this person...