1841 census: Hawes household at 7 Adelphi Terrace

Transcript supplied by Antony Greenfield on 8 November 2026, identified by him as the household at 7 Adelphi Terrace. The original census image has not been supplied with this transcript.

Reference

HO 107, piece 739, book 6, folio 52, page 6. Civil parish: St Martin in the Fields; hundred: Westminster; county: Middlesex; registration district: St Martin in the Fields; sub-registration district: Charing Cross.

Household as supplied

Maria’s individual transcript records female sex and birthplace as Middlesex, England. It calculates an estimated birth year of about 1821. The supplied street-address and occupation fields are blank. No occupations or birthplace values for other household members have been inferred.

Interpreting the ages

The 1841 census was taken on 6 June. Adult ages were generally rounded down to the nearest five years: an entry of 20 normally represents an age of 20–24, not an exact age or a precise birth year. Consequently the automatically calculated “about 1821” should not replace Maria’s independently recorded 1816 birth year.

There is a further detail to resolve: someone born after 6 June 1816 would still be 24 on census night and could correctly appear as 20; someone born in April 1816 would be 25 and normally appear as 25. Maria’s baptism date is not itself her birthday. The archive retains her 1816 birth year while leaving the exact birthday and any age discrepancy open to checking.

Possible family identifications

The elder William and Elizabeth are consistent with William Hawes and his wife Elizabeth Mullinex. The younger Elizabeth, William and John are possible matches to their children Elizabeth, William Henry Bartleman and John Mullinex Hawes. The transcript alone does not prove these relationships: the 1841 census did not state relationship to household head, and the younger William is not given a middle name here. The original page and surrounding entries should be checked before treating these matches as definitive.

The six names are preserved exactly as the supplied list. This should not be taken as a complete list of everyone boarding at the address, especially given the known chorister boarding arrangements; neighbouring pages may continue the household.

Evidence status: family-supplied census transcript, with original image and address wording pending inspection. Portrait identity is not established by this census entry.

Sources and related records

• Antony Greenfield’s supplied 1841 census transcript.
• The National Archives census research guide: 1841 ages and recorded information
• William Hawes’s biography and Adelphi Terrace research
• Maria Billington Hawes’s biography