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.
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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
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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