Pre-1841 censuses: Brightlingsea 1831, Elmstead 1811

[helvissa]

I'm transcribing some pre-1841 Essex censuses. I've started with the 1831 Brightlingsea census. There's over 200 heads of household mentioned. Also, lots of fishermen, which shouldn't come as a surprise!

Should any of you find it useful:
http://essexandsuffolksurnames.co.uk/essex/brightlingsea.htm

[Wade82]

Thank You this shall be useful I am sure.

[Thunder Monkey]

Should any of you find it useful:
http://essexandsuffolksurnames.co.uk/essex/brightlingsea.htm

Hi Helvissa,

I am very interested in your work as I have a lot of ancestors in and around Brightlingsea.
Unfortunately I can not seem to access the transcribed lists, am I doing anything wrong?

Thank you in advance.

[helvissa]

I think I'm suffering an html fail! Try this: http://essexandsuffolksurnames.co.uk/essex/brightlingsea/

Oh - and which surnames are you interested in? Mine in Brightlingsea are mainly Savage, Field and Ward (I suspect that in 1831, my Field ancestor was living in the Ward household...).

[Thunder Monkey]

I think I'm suffering an html fail! Try this: http://essexandsuffolksurnames.co.uk/essex/brightlingsea/

Oh - and which surnames are you interested in? Mine in Brightlingsea are mainly Savage, Field and Ward (I suspect that in 1831, my Field ancestor was living in the Ward household...).

The two links on the page, to the pdfs, take me back to a html-looking (although the link ends in .pdf) page unfortunately.

I am interested in Butcher and Webb but also Long, Cardy and Hobrough maybe there too.

[helvissa]

It's all sorted now!

There's no Butcher, but there's a Webb.

[Thunder Monkey]

Thank you so much.
I'm having a search through now. 

[helvissa]

Beaumont-cum-Moze census for 1821 transcribed now too:
http://essexandsuffolksurnames.co.uk/essex/beaumont-cum-moze/

There are also lists from 1688 and 1747 of occupants of BCM including acreages (so it's like a head of households-only census for some of the parish inhabitants). These were in one of the parish registers.

[Duodecem]

Hello Helvissa -thank you so much for your link to the 1831 census which I stumbled upon when doing a search.
My g.g grandparents-James Harvey and Elizabeth Hills married in Brightlingsea in 1810. I knew James had died by the time of the 1841 census. What I didn't know was that he had died between his last child's baptism in 1827 and 1831, which shows Elizabeth in a household of 4f and 1m-so presumably herself and 4 youngest children.
I haven't been able to find any birth or burial records for James but now I'm getting closer!
Thanks once again, Jan