- Date
- 1880
- Eras
- Irish era
- Concepts
- demographyfishingmaritimeeconomyhistoriography
- Within
- Township of Saint James
Summary
Helen Collar’s 2006 compilation preserves an 1880 St. James Township summary of 30 households and 168 persons. Its occupational tally places cooperage, fishing, retail trade, sailing, store work, labor, carpentry, and service alongside farming, a hotel keeper, a lighthouse keeper, and other listed work.
Evidence and limits
The snapshot is useful context for the interdependence of maritime work, fishing, cooperage, and harbor commerce in the township. It is not an islandwide total, an original federal census schedule, an annual employment record, or a complete household roster. The source’s named occupational counts do not establish every listed person’s identity, employer, income, workplace, or duration of employment.
Because the held source is a Collar transcription rather than the original 1880 schedule, it is a research bridge to be checked against the primary record before making individual-level demographic or family claims.
See also
Sources
- Described in this archive: Helen Collar Census Records transcriptions.The held compilation transcribes a St. James Township summary of 30 households and 168 persons. It lists ten coopers, seven fishermen, five retail grocers, four sailors, three store clerks, three laborers, three carpenters, eight servants, and one or two entries in other named occupations. This is Collar’s secondary transcription/summary, not an original schedule, a complete island count, annual employment evidence, or proof of each person’s identity or work duration.local_documents · 2006_collar-beaver-island-census-compilation
Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “St. James Township 1880 census occupational summary, Collar transcription”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/census-st-james-1880-collar-occupational-summary/, accessed [date], citing Helen Collar, *Complete Beaver Island Collar Census Information* (2006), p. 1, “1880 Census St. James.”.
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