|
|
 FINAL ISSUE This will be the final issue of the Jupp Newsletter. It has become increasingly difficult to find fresh material for each issue, so I hope this decision is understood. I'd like to thank all those who have contributed in some way and hope you will continue to support this website with any useful feedback you might have. – Mark Gooch Contents: New Researchers Beyond the 1881 Census BMD Update Archives New Researchers I would like to welcome the following researchers who have submitted their details for inclusion on the Researchers Page. *** Mandy Fenyvesi has Jupp interests in Alfriston, Sussex & Bletchingley, Surrey from 1750 onwards. In particular, the marriage of a Joanna Jupp to Richard Huggett in 1775. *** Margaret Somers has interests in Bargemen. George Jupp who worked on the Medway & Thames, married Elizabeth Martin in 1845. *** Any follow-ups to these would be much appreciated. Full details on the Researchers Page. Has anyone had any luck through the Researchers Page? I would like to hear about it. Emails to genealogy1@sprignall.freeserve.co.uk Back to Top Beyond the 1881 Census - by John Gooch A snapshot of the male Jupp as revealed by the 1881 census for England. INTRODUCTION The 1881 census is like a magnet. We are attracted to it over and over again. With it now being available on line (http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp) it is even easier to use it for our searches. However, most of the time we use it to search for individuals or family groups and rarely look at the trends revealed. In this article I have looked at the information listed for all male Jupps to see what the information may reveal. In short it is a snapshot of life as it was for the Jupps in 1881. (The survey is restricted to the male Jupps listed in the 1881 census because once a female Jupp has become married they are less easy to search out. For the purposes of this study only the England census was used) THE AGE BREAKDOWN The first piece of information I looked at were the ages of male Jupps at 1881. The table below shows the spread of these ages:
The figures show that over 60% of all male Jupps were under the age of 30 in 1881 while less than 3% were over the age of 71. Indeed, very nearly 50% are aged 20 or under. Is this an indication of how rapidly the population was growing at that period of time? We know that average life expectancy was much lower than we can expect now, as can be seen by the small percentage of over 70s but surely the 20% aged 11-20 suggests that the general population was increasing overall. WHERE ARE THEY AND WHERE DID THEY COME FROM So where were all these individuals from? The 1881 census allows us to see both where an individual was born and where they were living at the time of the census. The table shows the five principle counties containing the Jupp name.
These five counties cover the births of all but 6% of all the male Jupps listed. Within the five, the county of Sussex stands out overwhelmingly as the 'home' county for the name with almost 50% of all births. What also stands out is the percentage of individuals still living in the five counties at the time of the census. Of the major five counties, only Sussex shows a decrease in numbers, suggesting that many of the Sussex born Jupps moved out of the county, probably in search of employment. The largest increase in numbers occurred for Middlesex possible reflecting the increasing trend for people to move to the metropolitan areas for work. Only 20 counties registered a Jupp birth whilst 23 counties recorded a living male Jupp. Again this shows how the Jupp namely was beginning to spread even if fairly slowly. WHAT WERE THEY DOING
*1 Rural occupations include bridle cutters, cowmen, poulterers, saddlers, thatchers, gamekeepers etc *2 Builders, Carpenters, Plasterers, Glaziers etc *3 Includes eating house keepers, hotel keepers, victuallers As might be expected for a name so associated with a (then) rural county such as Sussex, the largest single listed occupation was 'Agricultural Labourer' (16.4%). If one includes other unspecified labourers (which might also include some predominantly agricultural labourers) the figure reaches nearly 30%. Clearly our Jupp ancestors were generally of a solid if unremarkable stock. This is even more obvious if you include all those listed with other more rural trades such as cowmen, saddlers & gamekeepers etc (15%) and those listed as 'gardeners' (another 7.9%). Quite what gardens these men tended the records do not show though one can suggest a reasonable number worked in country houses for the more wealthy landowners. Only when you get further down the list can we see the rise of more educated indivuals who were teachers, clerks and occupied in other skilled occupations. However, even the Jupp name contains some that stood a little apart from the crowd. Included in the list were men who listed their occupation as 'artist' (1), 'chapel minister' (1), 'chimney sweep' (1), 'circus showman' (1), 'professional cricketer' (1, the Henry Jupp featured in Newsletter ??), 'omnibus proprietor' (1), 'varnish master' (1) and 'wine merchant'(1). And what of our own 'proud' family tradition as plasterers? Well, in 1881 there were only 4 in total and two of those were our own ancestors, George and his brother John Lewis. Clearly we were not as much of the crowd as we had imagined! WHAT WERE THEIR NAMES We have seen how their ages were spread and what occupations they followed and even where they lived. So, what were their names? The table below lists the top 8 first names listed in 1881. These names accounted for 64% of the total with William clearly out in front at nearly 16%. Oddly this is the one name in top five that we do not have in our family tree. Or perhaps that should read 'as yet'?
IN CONCLUSION Of course what would really make this short survey more complete would be to compare how the results for the Jupp name compare to those for other names of a similar occurrence. This would be particularly interesting if this other name covered the same 'home' territory of South-East England. Perhaps these results are exactly what one would expect for families living in that same geographical area. That may be a job for another day. For the moment we can hazard a rough guess that if you are looking for a male Jupp ancestor around the 1881 period he will be an agricultural worker who was born in Sussex and is probably still living there. He will be aged fewer than 30 and the chances are (36%) he will be named William, George or John. No wonder it is sometimes difficult to distinguish individuals. Back to Top BMD - Update I've been busy updating the Deaths database over the last few weeks. It's quite a slow process typing all the data in, and although I still have lots of data to enter for the Births & Deaths, I thought it was time to upload to the site what I have so far. The Deaths database now contains 1265 entries. Please remember that there may be some missing entries. As with all voluntary transcribing, errors do occur so don't give up if you don't find your Jupp among them and please have the entries checked with the original Indexes prior to any certificate purchases. Check out the BMD databases on the Records page. Back to Top Archives Newsletter – Issue 1 – December 2000 Newsletter – Issue 2 – March 2001 Newsletter - Issue 3 - June 2001 Newsletter - Issue 4 - September 2001 Newsletter - Issue 5 - December 2001 Newsletter - Issue 6 - March 2002 Newsletter - Issue 7 - June 2002 Newsletter - Issue 8 - September 2002 Newsletter - Issue 9 - December 2002 Newsletter - Issue 10 - March 2003 This was the Final Issue. Back to Top  Back to Home Page |
 genealogy1@sprignall.freeserve.co.uk |
| Visitors: 00285 |