Census Enumerators' books

Introduction
Available from AHDS History's Collection
Available from other AHDS Centres' Collections
Further Information
Links

Part of map depicting national free trade lectures, shows and exhibitions, December 1910. [AHDS History Study Number: 4818]
Introduction

Census enumerators' books are the primary historical source for the study of family and local history from 1851 to 1901. Copies of the original CEBs are available nationally from the Family Records Centre and in many local libraries and archives. Selections of many of these CEBs have been digitised, and some of these are available from AHDS History. These are not all formatted in the same way, so they may not be comparable.

 Available from AHDS History's Collection

The enriched version of the 1881 Census is available to UK higher and further education users through CHCC

Clicking on the links below will take you to the relevant catalogue record from the UK Data Archive catalogue.

Study No.Title
SN 5596Scottish Census Enumerators' Books: Skye, Kilmarnock, Rothiemay and Torthorwald, 1861-1901
SN 5323Pinner Census, 1901
SN 5221Cornwall Online Census Project, 1841
SN 4986Village Records of Chelsworth, Suffolk, 1441-1904
SN 4978Cornwall Online Census Project, 1891
SN 4710Census Enumerators' Returns for Kingston upon Thames, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891
SN 4375National Sample from the 1881 Census of Great Britain
SN 4212Census Enumerators' Books for Downham, Cambridgeshire, 1851 and 1891
SN 41781881 Census for Scotland [note: non higher and further education users can purchase a full transcription of the 1881 census from the Genealogical Society of Utah]
SN 41771881 Census for England and Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man (Enhanced Version) [note: non higher and further education users can purchase a full transcription of the 1881 census from the Genealogical Society of Utah]
SN 39231851 Census : Berkhamsted Superintendent Registrar's District, Hertfordshire
SN 3821Social History of the Welsh Language : Evidence of the 1891 Census; Project 2
SN 3651Scots Miners 1891 Census Survey
SN 3319Warrington in 1841-1881
SN 31391891 Census Project, Spitalfields
SN 3031Ashwell History Census Data Project, 1841-1881; Wheathamstead, 1861
SN 3030Ashwell History Census Data Project, 1841-1881; Wallington, 1851
SN 3029Ashwell History Census Data Project, 1841-1881; Therfield, 1851
SN 3028Ashwell History Census Data Project, 1841-1881; Rushden, 1851
SN 3027Ashwell History Census Data Project, 1841-1881; North Mymms, 1851-1861
SN 3026Ashwell History Census Data Project, 1841-1881; Letchworth, 1851-1871
SN 3025Ashwell History Census Data Project, 1841-1881; Kelshall, 1851-1861
SN 3024Ashwell History Census Data Project, 1841-1881; Harpenden, 1861-1871
SN 3023Ashwell History Census Data Project, 1841-1881; Gravely, 1851
SN 3022Ashwell History Census Data Project, 1841-1881; Datchworth, 1851-1881
SN 2999Bridgeton and Paisley Census, 1851, 1871 and 1891 : A Sample of Households Containing Cotton Workers
SN 2998Heads of Households in Bridgeton and Paisley, 1851, 1871, 1891
SN 2988Pinner Census, 1841-1891
SN 2975Ashwell History Census Data Project, 1841-1881; Ashwell, 1841-1881
SN 2948Ashford, 1840 - 1870 : a Socio-Demographic Study
SN 2708Census Enumerators' Books : Four Rural Areas, 1851-1881
SN 2592Census Enumerators' Books, Keighley, West Yorkshire, 1851-1881
SN 1978Occupation and Family in the Somerset Coalfield and St Helens, 1851
SN 18531861 Census Southwark; Parishes of Christ Church, St. Thomas and St. Saviour
SN 1819Sheerness Naval Dockyard Study; Census Enumerators Books, 1851-1871
SN 17451851 National Census : Random One per Cent Sample of Norwich Wards
SN 17361851 Census of Seaham Harbour, County Durham
SN 1660Segregation and Social Structure in Early 20th Century Belfast
SN 1482Enumerators Returns for County Antrim, 1851
SN 1328Suffolk Census Data, 1851-1876
SN 1316National Sample from the 1851 Census of Great Britain
SN 1206A Demographic Analysis of a Subdivided Population, 1851-1871
 
Available from other AHDS Centres' Collections

There are currently no census enumerator's books available from other AHDS centres.

 Further Information

For further details about Census Enumerators' Books please read: E. Higgs, A clearer sense of the census: the Victorian census and historical research (London, HMSO, 1996). (This is currently out of print but should be available from any good library. A new edition will be published during 2005.); D.Mills and K.Schurer, eds., Local communities in the Victorian census enumerators' books (Oxford, Leopard's Head Press, 1996). Available from lps@herts.ac.uk.

 Links

FreeCEN This site is primarily of interest to genealogists.

1881 Census published by the Genealogical Society of Utah available to the non-HE/FE community.

 

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