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The Government of Britain
decided that it needed to know the size of the population of England for
a number of reasons. (mainly to calculate what taxes to levy!) A succession
of Acts of Parliament from 1753 onwards culminated in the first 'real'
census in 1841. The census has been taken every 10 years since 1841 with
ever increasing amounts of data requested.
The census information is only made public 100 years after the date it
was gathered. Accordingly the 1901 census is the most recent available.
The following files list the information gathered from the census returns
for the years given. These files list who was in each household on census
night, their family relationship to each other and where each person was
born. These facts make the census returns very useful for establishing
family groups and their development over the years. For some years the
census returns have been ptotographed at excellent resolution and the
images put on CD or DVD as Acrobat.pdf files and these can be purchased.
These records can be manually searched on the computer. Additionally,
many of the handwritten returns have been typed up in computer format
by hundreds of British geneology enthusiasts. This data can be purchased
from the organisations who funded the data entry. Unfortunately the accuracy
is not perfect and a number of transcription errors have been made. In
all fairness, the handwriting on some of the returns is very bad.
The following links will take
you to the data for the year in question. Please use your Web Browser
'Back Arrow' to bring you back to this page.
1841,
1851, 1861, 1871,
1881, 1891,
1901, 1911
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