Abstracted, proofread, 
copyright owner, and 
submitted by 
Dana Hill
 

Wayne Co.,  IL

1855 State Census


 

Welcome!   This page was abstracted, submitted, and is copyright by one of our county's volunteer,  Dana Hill, who transcribed and proof read the data from a faded and  hard to read microfilm, and owns the copyright for them.

Many thanks to Dana!

PLEASE  READ the information provided.  I will not answer email if you did not read it!

Dana wrote:
The middle of each page on the microfilm was faded, making some of the names almost impossible to read, and I don't know enough about names in right County to decipher some of them.

Also please note that the total number of persons in the household does not always add up correctly, but I transcribed them as they were.  Plus, not all of the columns had entries.  I left them blank

Dianna's  comments:
It is important for you to use your researching abilities,  Do NOT contact Dana or me for help to find your surname.  If you can not find it under one spelling, think about other possible ways and look. We provide the data, you do your research.

When a name could not be made out, it is in italic.  Many of the names are hard to read (being so old and poor handwriting) and have several spellings (remember accents made it hard to understand a person, or it is spelled as pronounced), as example:  AYER could be AIRER  AIER  AER.

I wrote a script to take the plain text and put it into a html table.  When a field was blank the script entered a zero.

Both state census have indexes but, not linked.  As in a book, when you find your surname in the index, you have to go to the file and search for the name.
 
NAME
A - H 
Free white males
A B C D E F G H AA BB CC DD EE FF GG
J - Q 
Free white females
J K L M N O P Q Negroes 
and 
Mulattoes 
Male  Female
Total 
People
Number 
 in Militia
Manufactories 
of all kinds
Value of 
products of 
manufactories
Value of 
Live Stock
Num. 
Pound 
of Wool
Age Brackets Under 10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80

To view a full line, you will need to use your scrollbar on the bottom and scroll right. Or shorten the Index Box on the left (see Using this Site)

The "Index"  and "pages" are NOT linked to each other. When you find your surname in the Index, click on your 'back' key to return here. Then click on the page file it is in.
Index  Unknown
Index  L
 
Pages 1-6
 Index  A
 Index  M
 
Pages 7-12
 Index  B
Index  N 
 
Pages 13-18
 Index  C
Index  O
 
Pages 19-24
 Index  D 
Index  P
 
Pages 25-30
 Index  E
Index  R
 
Pages 31-36
 Index  F
 Index  S
 
Pages 37-42
Index  G
Index  T 
Pages 43-48
 Index  H
Index  U
Pages 49-54
Index   I
 Index  V
Pages 55-59
Index  J
Index  W
Index  K
Index  Y

Oct   10, 2000
Copyright © Mar 1999.  D. Williams;
All rights reserved.
Last rev. by D. Williams Tuesday, 05-Feb-2008 12:20:29 CST.