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General Register Office: 1861 Census Returns
Catalogue reference: RG 9
What's it about?
RG 9
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...
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RG 9
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office: 1861 Census Returns
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Date (When the record was created)
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1861
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Description (What the record is about)
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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 (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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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.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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The returns of censuses taken in 1841 and 1851 are preserved in HO 107
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- General Register Office, 1836-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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4543 volume(s)
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Available in digital format
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1861 April 7
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13334/
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