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Pre 1841 census
« on: Thursday 12 January 17 23:36 GMT (UK) »
What i would like to know is

How can you find who was living with who and where before the 1841 census

is there something that can be searched

I know there are some parish register documents - but they only seem to cover births, deaths and little marriage info

Would like to know for all of britain and ireland


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Re: Pre 1841 census
« Reply #1 on: Friday 13 January 17 07:42 GMT (UK) »
Below is some information about census records before 1841

Pre-1841 Census
There are only a few name lists created on the parish level for the census years 1801, 1811, 1821, 1831. The few surviving pre-1841 censuses generally contain only names of the head-of-household. Consult an archive in your county to determine what may be available or information on pre-1841 census records can be found in:

The University of Essex, Department of History published an easy to follow PDF file in 2004 entitled "Census Schedules and Listings, 1801-1831: An Introduction and Guide" by Richard Wall, Matthew Woollard and Beatrice Moring. This is now available at two websites: (1) The University of Essex, from which it can be readily downloaded; and (2) Academia, from which it can be downloaded by those who first sign up to enroll in Academia. The 151-page guide includes a county-by-county catalogue of the surviving name lists that have been found for the English censuses from 1801-1831, including all those listed in the following work by Chapman.
Chapman, Colin R., Pre-1841 Censuses and Population Listings in the British Isles.  Dursley, Gloucestershire, England : Lochin Publishing, 1998 (5th ed). (Family History Library book 942 X27cc, 1998)
The 1831 census was collated by the census office and the resulting Parish Register Abstracts form an important part of the published census material, because from it alone, the clergymen's manuscript returns have survived. The records are held at The National Archives of the UK under 'Clergymen's returns of 1831' (HO71/1-HO71/124.) 

There is statistical data available for every parish in the pre-1841 censuses. Consult Online Historical Population Reports article for further details.

The above was from the Family Search website.  Link below for further details

https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/England_Census#Pre-1841_Census
Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire

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Re: Pre 1841 census
« Reply #2 on: Friday 13 January 17 08:35 GMT (UK) »
What i would like to know is

How can you find who was living with who and where before the 1841 census

is there something that can be searched

I know there are some parish register documents - but they only seem to cover births, deaths and little marriage info

Would like to know for all of britain and ireland



I am afraid the answer is still the same as it has been for the last century, and beyond, albeit that now the task is far easier due to the amount of records online and published on microfiche/film and transcriptions available.

That is the researcher sits down with a copy of the parish register (for the parish concerned) and re-constructs families from the baptisms & births, marriages and burials & deaths registered (yes, many parish registers do contain births & deaths as well as baptisms & burials).
This is a very time consuming task but can and has been done by generations of researchers from time immemorial.
Other available documents may also help such as lair registers (grave registers), wills, papist lists, pauper records, manorial records etc., etc.

This is where the modern researcher is at a disadvantage to the researchers of the past; in the past, due to difficulties of access the researchers built a wealth of research techniques that unfortunately modern research using the internet does not develop.
This means that many modern researchers have no idea how to actually research as opposed to running a search and view operation. They are then forced to learn new techniques without the “comfort blanket” of the census to corroborate their compilations.

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