1860 United States Census

Van Landschoot families and related households in America

The federal census of 1860 offers a fuller picture of Belgian immigrant households in the United States only ten years after the first named census of 1850. By this date, many immigrant families had become more firmly established, often with farms, property, and growing American-born children.

For the Van Landschoot family and related households, the 1860 census helps trace continuity, settlement and family expansion in the Midwest. It is especially valuable because it records not only names, ages, occupations and birthplace, but also both real estate and personal estate.

Map of Van Landschoot Locations in 1860

Map showing Van Landschoot census locations in 1860

This map shows the known locations of Van Landschoot families and related households recorded in the 1860 United States Census.

How to Read the 1860 Census Schedule

The 1860 federal census followed the same general structure as the 1850 schedule, but added an important new column for personal estate. The headings below correspond to the principal fields used by the enumerator and help explain how each census entry should be interpreted.

1. Dwelling houses numbered in the order of visitation
The number assigned to each house as visited by the census taker.

2. Families numbered in the order of visitation
The household number given in sequence during enumeration.

3. The name of every person whose usual place of abode on the 1st day of June, 1860, was in this family
Each free person living in the household was listed by name.

4. Age
The age of each person at the last birthday before the official census date.

5. Sex
Recorded as male or female.

6. Color
Usually marked as White, Black, or Mulatto, according to census usage of the period.

7. Profession, occupation, or trade of each person, male and female, over fifteen years of age
Useful for identifying farmers, laborers, servants, craftsmen and other occupations.

8. Value of real estate
The declared value of land or real property owned.

9. Value of personal estate
The declared value of movable goods or personal property.

10. Place of birth, naming the state, territory, or country
Especially important for immigrants, as it may identify Belgium or another country of origin.

11. Married within the year
Shows whether the person had married during the year before the census.

12. Attended school within the year
Indicates school attendance during the previous year.

13. Persons over twenty years of age who cannot read and write
A literacy indicator and often useful in family and social context.

14. Whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane, idiotic, pauper, or convict
A special column used to note particular physical, mental or legal conditions.

Census Records

Ambrose Van Landschoot

Census record from 1860. This entry helps trace the continuing presence of the family in the United States during a period of settlement and growth. In 1870 he will be found in Atkinson, Illinois.

William Van Landschoot

Census record from 1860. This entry documents another Van Landschoot household and helps trace the family’s presence in America during the decade before the Civil War.

Peter Landschoot

Census record from 1860. This entry adds another documented household or individual connected with the broader Van Landschoot family network in this decade.

Based on compiled census images and genealogical identification of Van Landschoot family members and related households in the United States.