Irish Names in the 1870 Census

The 1870 Census contained 130 pages. They were broken down by post offices: Hyde Park, Old Forge, and Lackawanna. The names below are from Lackawanna only. By this time, some prominent families had arrived including, Judge, Powell, Higgins, Philbin, Toole, Cusick, Ryan, Connelly, and Egan, among others. 

Art

Barrett, Bern, Best, Bohan, Boland, Boyce, Boyle, Brown, Buckley, Burke

Carrigan, Cawley, Chalk, Conaboy, Conley (Connolly), Connell, Conner, Cotter, Coyle, Coyne, Cusick, Crane, Cummings

Delacey, Dempsey, Dolan, Driscoll Duffy

Egan

Farley, Flannery, Fitzhenry, Flynn

Gallagher, Garity, Gibbons

Higgins, Hughes

Jordan, Joyce, Judge

Kane, Kelly, Keegan, Kilcoyne

Lally, Laffy, Langan, Lavelle, Lowry, Lydon

Mackin, Magnan, Mahady, Mahan, Maloney, Manley, Marley, McAndrew, McCray, McCue, McDermot, McDonla (McDonough), McDonnell, McKenzie, McNamara, McNelty, McTighe, Megan, Mulderig, Mulhern, Mullen, Murphy, Murray

Nallin

O’Hara

Philbin, Powell

Quinn

Rafferty, Reagan, Reed, Reilly, Rolen, Ryan

Sheridan, Shorten

Timlin, Toole, Tooly

Varley

Walsh

The dwelling houses were to be numbered in the order of visitation. This is interesting because the census jumps from Hyde Park to Lackawanna to Old Forge and back to Hyde Park, Lackawanna, and Old Forge at least three times. I would really like to retrace this route!

About 1870 United States Federal Census (taken from ancestry.com)

Enumerators of the 1870 census were instructed to record the names of every person in the household. Enumerators were asked to include the following categories in the census: name; age at last birthday (if a child was under one year of age, months of age were to be stated as fractions, such as 1/12); sex; color; profession; occupation or trade of every male and female; value of real estate; place of birth; whether mother and father were of foreign birth; whether born or married within the year and the month; those who could not read; those who could not write; whether deaf, dumb, blind, or insane or "idiotic". No relationships were shown between members of a household. The categories allowed Congress to determine persons residing in the United States for collection of taxes and the appropriation of seats in the House of Representatives.

The United States was the first country to call for a regularly held census. The Constitution required that a census of all "Persons...excluding Indians not taxed" be performed to determine the collection of taxes and the appropriation of seats in the House of Representatives. The first nine censuses from 1790-1870 were organized under the United States Federal Court system. Each district was assigned a U.S. marshal who hired other marshals to administer the census. Governors were responsible for enumeration in territories.

The official enumeration day of the 1870 census was 1 June 1870. All questions asked were supposed to refer to that date.