1831 Census Warwick St Nicholas

[locksmith]

This may be of interest to those who had ancestors in 1830s Warwick (but probably only if you subscribe to ancestry)

Ancestry hold thousands of pages of unindexed but browsable Miscellaneous Parish records (Warwickshire, England, Miscellaneous Parish Records). Hidden away under the records for St Nicholas (Warwick) under the section "Miscellaneous Books 1828-1824", starting at image 55, I found the original 1831 Census for this parish.
Although censuses prior to 1841 did not have too much useful information for genealogy research, they did record the head of each household, in this case their full name. This one also includes the Street name.

Simon

[taffie01]

Hi Simon,
thanks for that useful info, hadn't noticed that yet. we all need an extra pair of eyes at times!
cheers taffie

[locksmith]

Yes, I have found these records extremely interesting and useful in no small part. There are all sorts of useful snippets hidden away but can take hours of browsing and a lot to get side tracked on. Why for instance did a widow of 30 years, and with no family, keep paying for 4 seats on a pew in the church?

The church accounts are really interesting, giving a really good view of who was doing what, what was being paid for (ale for workers in the church yard, 6d for the mole cather etc).

These have been keeping me busy from time to time since the records began.

Simon

[Reg1nald]

Simon,
Many thanks for this link, it has been an amazing resource for my research.

[locksmith]

I'm glad to have been of help.

Simon