1880 U.S. Census Escambia County Florida West Florida Genealogy Society P. O. Box 947 Pensacola, FL 32597-0947 1880 U. S. Census Escambia County Florida Includes All-Name Index Published by West Florida Genealogical Society P. O. Box 947 Pensacola, FL 32597-0947 Copyright © 2007 by the West Florida Genealogical Society All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America The 1880 Federal Census of Escambia County, Florida Transcription of this census began in January of 2007 and ended in August of that same year. This was the last of the 1800 State and Federal censuses to be transcribed and was completed from a partial LDS transcription with WFGS adding data the LDS didn’t include in their effort. You will notice that, as with other transcriptions, there are no page numbers in this book. Instead, the whole-name index lists every person in the census by a unique line number. In the census the line numbers start with 1 at the top of the first page and run sequentially to the bottom of the last page. To find a person in this census, locate them in the index and note their line number. Then flip through the census until you get to that line number on a census page. The line numbers run down the left hand column on both the census and the index. This saves having to search the whole page for the name in question. It might be worth noting that the index numbers on the census pages are not all consecutive though they are all in ascending order. Therefore you can’t tell how many people were in this census from the last index number. The missing numbers resulted from changes and adjustments made to the merged copies to allow the printers to fit an entire census page onto one sheet. To do this, blank rows left in place by the LDS transcribers were removed prior to publication. In case you are interested, there are 12,151 people listed in this census. Since this census was initially transcribed by the LDS, the volunteers of the WFGS served only as proofreaders of the names while adding those data not included by the LDS in their transcription effort. Some of the names are listed incorrectly but this is because this was a transcription effort where we entered only what was in the census – correct or not. For instance the name McVoy was written as McVay. We knew this was incorrect but followed the enumerator’s version instead of making assumptions about there not having been a McVay that matched the McVoy family. If you use the all-name index, however, to find your people you should not have any difficulty telling your ancestors even though the spelling may be off somewhat. Just take care to look for all possible spellings because sometimes names beginning with a “C,” for instance, were listed as beginning with an “S” instead. One instance I noted while merging and formatting the data for publication was Celestine listed as Selistine. The vast majority of the data is accurate but, as on every census transcription, I know there are undetected errors and I want the reader to be aware that the transcriptions aren’t perfect. As always, on behalf of the Census Transcription Team I hope you find what you are looking for in this transcription. Especially if you are working on a brick wall lineage. Jerry Merritt Program Manager Transcription Program These are the West Florida Genealogical Society (WFGS) volunteers who made the 1880 census transcription possible. Stamped Page Number 1 6 11 16 21 26 31 36 41 46 51 56 61 to to to to to to to to to to to to to 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 Copier Pat Kerr Pat Kerr Pat Kerr Pete Young Lil King Opal Anderson Pat Kerr Pat Kerr Pat Kerr Lil King Opal Anderson Gayle Sweet Gayle Sweet Transcriber James Mashburn James Mashburn Pete Young Pete Young Maurice Johnson Maurice Johnson Sherry Glorioso Sherry Glorioso Pricilla Nobles Jan Myers Sharon Mosley Jan Myers Gene Presley Stamped Page Number toto 66 ttto 71 to 76 to 81 to 86 to 91 to 96 to 101 to 106 to 111 to 116 to 121 to 126 to 70 75 80 85 90 95 100 105 110 115 120 125 129 Copier Pat Kerr Lil King Opal Anderson Gayle Sweet Lil King Opal Anderson Lil King Opal Anderson Pat Kerr Lil King Opal Anderson Pete Young Pat Kerr Production Tracker/Scheduler ~ Jennie Merritt Final Proofreaders ~ Sharon Mosley and Jan Myers Publisher ~ Bruce Rova Transcriber Dave Reinhart Gene Presley Gene Presley James Mashburn Jerry Merritt David Reinhart Rebecca Black Rebecca Black James Mashburn Sharon Mosley Jan Myers Bruce Rova Sharon Mosley