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1870 West Virginia Census Index

Gay Surname
 The 1870 census form called for dwelling houses to be numbered in the order of visitation; families numbered in order of visitation; and the name of every person whose place of abode on the first day of June 1870 was with the family. The census further asked the age of each individual at the last birthday. If a child was under one year of age, months of age were to be stated in fractions, such as 1/12. Additionally, the census asked the sex, color, profession, and occupation or trade of every male and female. There were also columns for disclosure of value of real estate and personal property. The 1870 census asked for the place of birth, specifically in which state or territory of the United States, or in which country if foreign born (including the province if born in Germany). The schedule provided space to indicate whether or not the father and the mother of the individual was foreign born, and if an individual was born or married within the year, the month in which the event occurred was to be entered. The census also asked for those who had attended school within the year; those who could not read; those who could not write; and the deaf and dumb, blind, insane and the "idiotic" to be identified. Finally, the schedules had space to identify any male citizen of the United States of age twenty-one and older, and any male citizen of the United States age twenty-one and older whose right to vote was denied or abridged on grounds other than rebellion or other crime. 
      NAME                 COUNTY         DISTRICT/TOWNSHIP      PAGE#

Gay, A. T.          WIRT CO.          BURNING SPRING TWP      246 1870        
Gay, William A.     POCAHONTAS CO.    LINCOLN TWP             025 1870
Gay, Samuel M.      POCAHONTAS CO.    LINCOLN TWP             016 1870
Gay, Samuel         POCAHONTAS CO.    LINCOLN TWP             025 1870    
Gay, R. T.          POCAHONTAS CO.    LINCOLN TWP             020 1870        
Gay, Mary A.        POCAHONTAS CO.    LINCOLN TWP             024 1870    
Gay, Joseph C.      POCAHONTAS CO.    LINCOLN TWP             017 1870   
Gay, John, Esq.     POCAHONTAS CO.    LINCOLN TWP             017 1870
Gay, John J.        POCAHONTAS CO.    LINCOLN TWP             024 1870      
Gay, H. B.          POCAHONTAS CO.    LINCOLN TWP             024 1870        
Gay, Susan          OHIO CO.          2 W. WHEELING           171 1870        
Gay, Margaret       MONONGALIA CO.    MORGANTOWN              398 1870  
Gay, Samuel         LEWIS CO.         BATTELLE TWP            310 1870 
Gay, Robert         LEWIS CO.         BATTELLE TWP            310 1870        
Gay, James M.       LEWIS CO.         BATTELLE TWP            311 1870        
Gay, Andrew W.      LEWIS CO.         BATTELLE TWP            310 1870        
Gay, John           KANAWHA CO.       LOUDAN TWP              148 1870        
Gay, David          KANAWHA CO.       LOUDAN TWP              149 1870        
Gay, James          JEFFERSON CO.     SHEPHERD TWP            591 1870


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