Given Name(s)	Last Name

1841 1851 1861 1871

Census Dates

A census was taken to record those living in a household at midnight on a Sunday. The dates of the census varied from year to year.

• Sun/Mon. 6/7th June 1841
• Sun/Mon. 30/31st March 1851
• Sun/Mon. 7/8th April 1861
• Sun/Mon. 2/3rd April 1871
• Sun/Mon. 3/4th April 1881
• Sun/Mon. 5/6th April 1891
• Sun/Mon. 31st March / 1st April 1901

Access

These censuses have been microfilmed and are available through your local family history center. The 1881 Census is available for searching free at their website.

Ancestry.com is also converting the census to digital format and indexing them.

• earlier ones in progress 
• 1871 England Census
• 1891 England Census
  

The 1901 Census for England and Wales. A comprehensive index with over 32 million names is available for (free) searching and a fee  applies when a chargeable transaction (image download, print request or transcribed details) has been completed.

British Origins. This commercial site, presented in conjunction with the Society of Genealogists, offers a full index and digitised images of the 1841 census for Cambridgeshire, Devon, Dorset, Essex, Gloucestershire (includes Bristol), Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk