Making Sense of the Census: The Manuscript Returns for England and Wales, 1801-1901Providing researchers with a guide to the 19th century census records, this book also provides an administrative background to the census, describing the documents in detail and commenting on the nature and reliability of the information they contain. These manuscripts are widely used by genealogists, historical demographers, and those interested in social, economic and local history and the book can also be used both as a general introduction to the subject and as a means of reference when working on the records. |
Contents
The archival history of the documents | 18 |
The structure of the enumerators books | 27 |
Special returns | 37 |
Copyright | |
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1851 census report 1901 is Wanting administrative counties appear British Census Act census night census returns census-taking Censuses and Surveys century Ceredigion civil parishes classes for 1841 column Colyton Ecclesiastical employed England and Wales enumeration book enumeration district enumerator's book Examples farm Farmer forma material relating found in RG George Bacon household schedules inhabited houses instructions Item 68 Llangefni lodgers males and females Municipal Borough nineteenth nineteenth-century censuses nominal information number of houses Number of males number of persons occupations Office of Population onwards overseers Parliamentary borough poor law Population Censuses printed pro forma problems public records London record classes Record Office registration counties registration districts relevant census classes RG 27 volume Royal Navy Rural sanitary district Salep sanitary district Scotland servants ships social street sub-district Surveys has supplied term total number towns trade uninhabited Urban sanitary district various PRO record vessels wapentakes Welsh women