Catalogue description General Register Office: 1861 Census Returns

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Reference: RG 9
Title: General Register Office: 1861 Census Returns
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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Date: 1861
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 April 7

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