1921 Census
The 1921 Census of England and Wales was taken on 19 June 1921. It was held closed for one hundred years and only became publicly available in January 2022, which is why it appears here long after the earlier censuses. It is also the last census that will be released for some time: the 1931 returns were destroyed by fire in 1942 and no census was taken in 1941 because of the war, so the next available record of the population is the 1939.
William & Harriett Bagnall Household
The 1921 Census was taken on 19 June 1921. It was not released to the public until January 2022, which is why it appears here long after the rest.
Taken on the night of 19 June 1921. William was 47, still a builder and now an employer. Harriett was 46, recorded as doing home duties. Living with them at Moorvilla, 108 Stanley Road were six of their children, all unmarried: Marion Elizabeth (23), a Civil Service clerk at the tax office; John Henry (21, my Grandfather, a year before he marries Dorothy), a cinema manager working for "W Bagnall, Builder" - his own father's firm; Isabel (19), a clerk; Ronald George (13) and Arthur (10), both still at school; and Edith Mary (7), also at school. The household of 8 people occupied 6 rooms.
Address Page
The address confirms they were still at 108 Stanley Road, in Registration District 504, Sub-district 4, Enumeration District 11 - the same house recorded in the 1911 census.
John Milton Bagnall
In 1921 John Milton was 25 and unmarried, recorded not at his own household but as a boarder - entered as "Brother-in-law" - in the home of Fred Hesling Rowley and his wife Louisa (née Bagnall) at 50 York Street, Wakefield. Fred, 43, was a painter and employer, working for Turner & Sons, Painters, Wakefield. John Milton's own occupation is given as a trainee French polisher, with his place of work noted as the White Horse Hotel, Leeds.
The household was responsible to Fred H. Rowley, address 50 York Street, Wakefield - the same street given on John Milton's WW1 service paper as 50 Lower York Street.