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Census 1920 Nockamixon Twp ED42 Sheet4A Ritter
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[Transcriber's note: Sheet 4A of the Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920, Population schedule, for Nockamixon Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The sheet has 50 lines. This transcription gives the full header and lines 1 to 13: the Lang household above (lines 1 to 5), the Ritter household (lines 6 to 12), and the first line of the Fox household below (line 13). Lines 14 to 50 are not transcribed.]
[Transcriber's note: HEADER]
9—137
STATE
Pennsylvania
COUNTY
Bucks
TOWNSHIP OR OTHER DIVISION OF COUNTY
Nockamixon Township
NAME OF INCORPORATED PLACE
> [a word, read as "Harrow" or "Ferndale," struck through]
NAME OF INSTITUTION
[Transcriber's note: Left blank.]
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE—BUREAU OF THE CENSUS. FOURTEENTH CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES: 1920—POPULATION
290 [D1—578]
SUPERVISOR'S DISTRICT NO.
3
ENUMERATION DISTRICT NO.
42
SHEET NO.
4 A
WARD OF CITY
[Transcriber's note: Left blank.]
ENUMERATED BY ME ON THE ___ DAY OF
> January, 1920.
[Transcriber's note: The day is left blank.]
ENUMERATOR.
Clair F. Grim [read]
[Transcriber's note: Large handwritten numbers "7839" and "8901" [read] appear at the top right outside the form. A vertical note along the left margin reads "Durham Road" beside lines 14 to 35 and "Haycock Road" beside lines 40 to 50 [read].]
[Transcriber's note: PART 1 — COLUMNS 1 TO 18]
| Line | Street (1) | Dwelling (3) | Family (4) | Name (5) | Relation (6) | Home owned/rented (7) | Free or mortgaged (8) | Sex (9) | Color (10) | Age (11) | Marital (12) | Year of immigration (13) | Naturalized or alien (14) | Year naturalized (15) | Attended school (16) | Read (17) | Write (18) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FM | 76 | 83 | Lang, Joseph | Head | O | M | M | W | 40 | M | 1905 | Al | yes | yes | ||
| 2 | ↓ | — , Theresia [read; written "Tafaressa"] | Wife | F | W | 34 | M | 1902 | Al | yes | yes | ||||||
| 3 | ↓ | — , Lilian | Daughter | F | W | 8 | S | yes | |||||||||
| 4 | ↓ | — , Valentine | Daughter | F | W | 2 [read] | S | ||||||||||
| 5 | ↓ | — , Robert | Son | M | W | 1 | S | ||||||||||
| 6 | FM | 77 | 84 | Ritter, Nicklos | Head | O | F | M | W | 39 | M | 1901 | Na | 1909 | yes | yes | |
| 7 | ↓ | — , Margaret | Wife | F | W | 31 | M | 1914 | Na | 1914 | yes | yes | |||||
| 8 | ↓ | — , Nicholos | Son | M | W | 15 | S | yes | yes | yes | |||||||
| 9 | ↓ | — , Anna | Daughter | F | W | 12 | S | no | yes | yes | |||||||
| 10 | ↓ | — , Eva | Daughter | F | W | 9 | S | yes | |||||||||
| 11 | ↓ | — , Elizabeth | Daughter | F | W | 6 | S | yes | |||||||||
| 12 | ↓ | — , Katie | Daughter | F | W | 3 | S | ||||||||||
| 13 | FM | 78 | 85 | Fox, Manton | Head | O | F | M | W | 49 | M | yes | yes |
[Transcriber's note: "FM" in column 1 (farm) is written on each head-of-household line; "↓" represents the downward ditto checks on the lines below. A dash at the start of a name stands for "same surname as above." "O" in column 7 = owned; "F" in column 8 = free (no mortgage); "M" = mortgaged; "Al" = alien; "Na" = naturalized.]
[Transcriber's note: PART 2 — COLUMNS 19 TO 29 AND MARGIN]
| Line | Person: birthplace (19) | Person: mother tongue (20) | Father: birthplace (21) | Father: mother tongue (22) | Mother: birthplace (23) | Mother: mother tongue (24) | Speaks English (25) | Occupation (26) | Industry (27) | Employer/wage/own account (28) | Farm schedule no. (29) | Right-margin number |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungary | German | Hungary | German | Hungary | German | yes | Farmer | General farm | OA | 76 | 1000 |
| 2 | Hungary | German | Hungary | German | Hungary | German | yes | None | House | |||
| 3 | Pennsylvania | Hungary | German | Hungary | German | none | ||||||
| 4 | Pennsylvania | Hungary | German | Hungary | German | none | ||||||
| 5 | Pennsylvania | Hungary | German | Hungary | German | none | ||||||
| 6 | Hungary | German | Hungary | German | Hungary | German | yes | Blacksmith | Shop | OA | 77 | 136 |
| 7 | Hungary | German | Hungary | German | Hungary | German | yes | None | ||||
| 8 | Pennsylvania | Hungary | German | Hungary | German | yes | None | |||||
| 9 | Pennsylvania | Hungary | German | Hungary | German | yes | none | |||||
| 10 | Pennsylvania | Hungary | German | Hungary | German | none | ||||||
| 11 | Pennsylvania | Hungary | German | Hungary | German | none | ||||||
| 12 | Pennsylvania | Hungary | German | Hungary | German | none | ||||||
| 13 | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | yes | Farmer | General farm | OA | 78 | 1000 [read] |
[Transcriber's note: The Ritter household: Ritter, Nicklos, head, owns home free of mortgage, male, white, age 39, married, immigrated 1901, naturalized 1909, reads and writes, born Hungary, mother tongue German, both parents born Hungary with mother tongue German, speaks English, occupation blacksmith, industry shop, working on own account, Farm Schedule No. 77. Wife Margaret, 31, immigrated 1914, "Na" 1914 [as written]. Children Nicholos 15, Anna 12, Eva 9, Elizabeth 6 and Katie 3, all born in Pennsylvania. The right-margin numbers (1000, 136, 1000) are written outside the form beside the head-of-household lines and are not explained on the sheet.]