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Series
General Register Office: Census Returns: Specimens of Forms and Documents
Catalogue reference: RG 27
What's it about?
RG 27
A manuscript statement of the practical means planned by the first Registrar General and adopted for taking the 1841 Census was prepared entitled "History of the Census of 1841". The volume sets out the preparatory steps, instructions and layout...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RG 27
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office: Census Returns: Specimens of Forms and Documents
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1841-1991
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Description (What the record is about)
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A manuscript statement of the practical means planned by the first Registrar General and adopted for taking the 1841 Census was prepared entitled "History of the Census of 1841". The volume sets out the preparatory steps, instructions and layout of the forms. Separate collections have been made for other census of England and Wales from 1861 to 1991. Those for the 1921 and 1931 censuses include forms and instructions used in machine and tabulation processes.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Each volume is indexed.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- General Register Office, 1836-1970
- Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, 1970-1996
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 62 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Census
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13352/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
206,531 records
Within the department: RG
Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and...
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