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General Register Office: 1861 Census Returns

Description and record details

Reference RG 9
Title General Register Office: 1861 Census Returns
Date 1861-01-01
Description

Enumerators' schedules of returns made by heads of households for the 1861 census, which include the names, age, sex, occupation and parish and county of birth of individual members of the population of England, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Included in this series are returns from ships of the Royal Navy and merchant shipping at sea and in ports abroad, and from British ships in home ports. The series also includes descriptions of the proposed enumeration districts for London.

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Arrangement

The returns are topographically arranged in numerical order of registration district. The index to places gives the appropriate registration district number of each place. The whereabouts of institutions is indicated by a numerical code explained below: (1) Barracks, military quarters and hospitals;(2) HM ships at home;(3) Workhouses and pauper schools;(4) Hospitals for the sick, convalescents and incurables;(5) Lunatic asylums both public and private;(6) Prisons;(7) Certified reformatories and industrial schools;(8) Merchant vessels;(9) Schools.

Related material

The returns of censuses taken in 1841 and 1851 are preserved in HO 107

Held by The National Archives, Kew
Legal status Public Record(s)
Language

English

Creator

General Register Office, 1836-1970

Physical description 4543 volume(s)
Access conditions Available in digital format
Accumulation dates 1861
Administrative/ biographical background