Examples

This section summarizes the information one can expect to find in the various censuses from 1841 onwards.

Census

1841 Census of Population

Census place (parish, township, etc.)
Address (street, number, etc.)
Uninhabited or Building
Inhabited
Surname / Forename / Relationship to head / Marital condition
Age / Male or Female (rounded to nearest 5 years. Under 15 yrs is exact)
Occupations
Whether born on same County ( Y or N ).
Whether born in S(cotland), I(reland),or F(oreign) Parts.

1841 - extract from Buxton, NFK

*                    1841 Census of Buxton       HO 107 
*                    ---------------------
Parish or Township of Buxton (Part of)
Column
  1         2 3  4                5  6   7                8            9

PLACE       U I Names            AGE/SEX Profession,Trade Whether born Else-
            N N                   M  F                    same county. where

Mill Street   / Charles Gould     34      Gardener         Yes
                Sophia   do          34                    Y
                Wm       do        9                       Y
                Martha   do           7                    Y
                /
                Charles Frankling 15      Ag. Lab          Y
                Eliz/h     do        12                    Y
                //
              / Martha Dunning       70   Ind(ependent)    Yes
                Sarah    do          35                    Y
                Emily    do          25   Dressmaker       Y
                George   do        1                       Y
                //
              / John Bell         40      Carpenter        Yes
                Maria do             35                    Y
                Rob/t  do         15                       Y
                John   do         15                       Y
                Maria  do            12                    Y
                Emma   do            10                    Y
                W/m    do          7                       Y
                Caroline  do          5                    Y
                Jane      do          2                    Y
                //
            /&/ Thos Sturman      92      Ind..            Y
                Sarah do             85                    Y
                //
            /&/ John Hannant      37      Ag. Lab          Yes
                Marg/t   do          37                    Y
                John     do       10                       Y
                //
              / Esther Copland       86                    Yes
----------------------------------------------------------------
Total in    2u6                   11 14
Page 1..
ie. 2 u(nihabited) [One between Bell and Sturman households and
            the second between Sturman and Hannant households]
and 6 inhabited (separated by //)
of which Charles Gould's contains 2 families (separated by / in column 4).

1851 Ecclesiastical Census of all Church Worshippers

The Ecclesiastical Census of 1851 only gives average numbers of worshippers at all churches throughout the County. Do not just overlook the other information it contains because as well as the name for each Parish of the Church of England ie. St Michael's it also lists all Non Conformist ones. These are useful pointers to where baptisms etc. might have taken place if they can not be found in the Anglican church.

The parish of Buxton is given as an example.

Church of Parish of Buxton, St. Andrew. Square tower contains 2 ailses with clerestories, a chancel and a porch at the south end.

Parish, Ecclesiatical Division.      Sup. Reg.     County and Diocese
-------------------------------      ---------     ------------------
Buxton                               Aylsham       Norfolk
Ingham and Sparham Deanery                         Diocese of Norwich

Free sittings    220
Other sittings   140
                 ---
                 360

Estimate No. of persons attending divine service         Average
                      am       pm      evening
   Gen                57      149        -             80    139
Sunday Scholars       56       52        -             50     50
                     ---      ---                      --    ---
                     113      201                     130    189

George Jarvis, Curate, Vicarage House, Buxton

Wesleyan      1825   Separate building    Entirely Worship    Free Other
Chapel                     Yes                  Yes            65    60

                                                          Free space 120
                       am      pm    evening
                        -      60      60

Benjamin Passon, Steward

Friends or Quaker meeting House at Lamas (erected before 1800)

...(numbers of worshippers)....

Ransom Bransby (a member)

Particular Baptist   Lamas with       Before 1800    A room in a range of
Chapel              Hautbois Parva                   buildings entirely
                                                     separate from others
...(numbers of worshippers)....

George Copland, Minister

The Heath Chapel    Baptist     Before 1800   Separate building

...(numbers of worshippers)....

F(?)aber Dawson, Minister.

Books

Norfolk Record Society Vol LXII: 1851 Census of Religious Worship for Norfolk
Editors J. Ede & N. Virgoe
[ISBN 09511-600-87, 1998]
House of Commons Sessional Papers, 1852-53, Vol LXXXIX: Census of Great Britain, 1851: Religious Worship, England and Wales - Report and Tables [London, 1853]
Reprinted in the Irish University press Series of British Parl. Papers, Population, Vol. 10
[Shannon, 1970]

The following article contains 131 references to this census.

Field, Clive: The 1851 Religious Census of Great Britain: a Bibliographical Guide for Local and Regional Historians
(Series title: The Local Historian, Journal of British Assoc. for Local History).
[ISBN 00245585, Vol 27, No 4, 1997]

1851 to 1891 Censuses of Population

These contain the following items, but see notes afterwards:-

Census place (parish, township, etc.)
Address (street, Schedule number-NOT house no., etc.) [14 characters]
Surname / Forename (sometimes swopped around)
Relationship to head / Marital condition
Age / Male or Female
Occupation [13 characters]
County of birth / Parish of birth (sometimes swopped around).
PRO and GSU references[transcription only]

Notes
The 1851 and 1881 transcripts have some fields truncated as indicated in [square brackets]. The "blind, deaf, dumb" heading doesn't appear - but where applicable, there is a reference across to the "Miscellaneous notes" fiche, which then has the full details.

1851 - extract from Buxton, NFK

*                    1851 Census of Buxton       HO 107 / 1810   f 585--> 604
*                    ---------------------
*The whole of the Parish including Mill Street, Brook Street, Townsend 
*and Scotland Common, Lion Street the Hall and Buxton old Workhouse.
*
..........
Schedule | Street |Surname,
Number
27 Coltishall Rd Bell, Robert         H M 27    Carpenter, Jour. Catton       , NFK
                 Bell, Ann            W M    27 Dressmaker       Hevingham    , NFK
28 Coltishall Rd Woodhouse, Samuel    H M 34    Ag. Lab          Brampton     , NFK
                 Woodhouse, Ann       W M    37                  Oxnead       , NFK
                 Woodhouse, James     S   11    At Home          Hevingham    , NFK
29 Coltishall Rd Coman, James         H M 44    Ag. Lab                    BX , NFK
                 Coman, Elizabeth     W M    29                  Palling      , NFK
                 Coman, Robert        S    7    Scholar                    BX , NFK
                 Coman, James         S    4    At Home                    BX , NFK
                 Coman, John          S    1    At Home                    BX , NFK
                 Watts, Sarah         Sw?    18                  Palling      , NFK
30 Coltishall Rd Frankling, Elizabeth H Ww   78                  Gressenhall  , NFK
                 Frankling, Harriet   Gd     11 Scholar                    BX , NFK
31 Coltishall Rd Everitt, Jane        H M    28 Tea Dealers Wife Unknown      , ?
                 Everitt, Edward      S    6    At Home                    BX , NFK
                 Meares, Mary Ann     Sv     14 House Servant    No. Walsham  , NFK
32 Coltishall Rd Saul, Thomas         H M 49    Ag. Lab          Cawston      , NFK
                 Bradley, Joseph      L M 50    Engineer         Tipton,      , STS
                 Bradley, Mary Ann    L M    30 Glover           Yarmouth     , NFK
*                                         -- --
*                                         10  9

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