1850 Federal Census Cook County, Illinois (Transcriber's Notes)
                                                                                               
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Attached in a partial transcription of the first part  of the 1850 
Chicago Census under the heading "South Chicago." 

The first column is the handwritten number of the census book, the 
second is the page with the stamped number. I chose not to go with 
A and B.

Line number and household number are obvious. I had no reason to  
show  building number.

JEC  Name is my reading of the name  based  on  my reading of the 
name or the name as printed in a directory. South Chicago was a 
little settled area and most people did not appear in the early 
directories. Entries for the nine wards will show more  directory 
listings. My primary interest is in the Irish entries. Having heard 
Irish people and American Irish pronounce names give me a good idea 
in a lot of  instances of what the enumerators wrote down 
phonetically and what the usual standard spelling of today is. Also 
a year of high school German helped a little as well.  Again this 
will be more evident with the actual city wards. I am nearly done 
with listing everyone in Ward I. For the other wards I have so far 
listed the persons over 15.

Given names shows the name either from the census or from the 
directory. Sometimes the person is listed  as Mr or  by an initial. 
I have  tried to go back and show  in  Initial where the census had 
only the initial or in Mr where only Mr was shown. Sometimes a given
name is not given in a directory until  1852 or 1853 

The rest should be obvious. I did not add an occupation from a 
directory where the census did not provide one.

1849 and 1851 address is obvious. 

I did not transcribe the other fields.

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The two primary directories I used are Hathoway, O.P.,
and Taylor, J. H. Chicago City Directory and Annual
Advertiser for tht 1849-50....Chicago: Jas. J.
Langdon, 1849; and Dannehower, W.W. Chicago City
Directory, for 1851.....Chicago: W.W. Danenhower,
1851. 

For the identification of some of the given names for
people, I have in some cases used later directories
such as 1852 or 1853. The area covered is South
Chicago was it seems south of 22st the southern limit
of the city. It may have taken years for the city to
grow out to them and for them to be included in a city
directory. I don't know how reliable the census is in
general, especially for the Irish. A large number of
cuples were composed of men aged 40 and women aged 30.