Re: 1841 census « Reply #1 on: Friday 01 September 06 14:51 UTC (UK) »
Hi Alf
It would probably help people doing any searches for you if you could include any other info you might have re William such as parents' names or any other known siblings or place names.
There is also 68% coverage of Dumfries-shire to date on 1841 FreeCen at http://freecen.rootsweb.com. You might be lucky and find your William there. Remember to try for variants of spellings, eg some Ferguson entries are down as Fergusson.