A quick way to find a street on a census?

[SamuelF992]

Hi all

I'm looking to find 21 Boston Street, Manchester in the 1871 census on Ancestry and I want to know if there's a fast way of searching for it rather than just looking through all the enumeration districts in Hulme one-by-one? Would love to know if I'm missing a simple trick!

Best wishes
Samuel

[JJen]

1871 -

Robert Kenyon   30
Mary Kenyon   29
Thomas Kenyon   5
Harry Kenyon   3
Elizabeth Kenyon   2
Roth Kenyon   32
Wuneforn Norman   20

RG10 Piece 4004 Folio 12 Page 16, 21 Boston Street, Hulme.

Found on FindMyPast

JJ

[Mart 'n' Al]

TheGenealogist.Com allows street searches. It's wonderful.

Martin

[Melbell]

if you Google it with the word census and the date, it might come up and lead you straight to the census you want.

Melbell

[Bookbox]

Census street indexes for registration districts with population 40,000+ are available free on the old Your Archives site (not 1881 or 1901) ...

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121228200517/http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Help:Census_Street_searches

[crisane]

 It used to be possible to do a street search on ancestry but now in their wisdom they have changed this and a couple of years ago on their support page in answer to this query replied "it is only possible to search the 1911 UK Census by address. You can do this by leaving all search fields empty and type the address into the 'Keyword' section, once you do that the site will search for the address."

However you can browse through all the images in a particular enumeration  district until you find the one you want.

On the 'search' page RH side, click on UK census under the Special Collections/Census & Electoral Rolls banners.
Scroll down the page to Included data collections and click on the census year you need-

RH column - Browse this collection
Choose - County, Civil Parish
It then brings up a menu of enumeration districts which when clicked on brings up the first image which lists the streets in that district. You can then scroll through the images until you find the street and house number you want.

[SamuelF992]

Tremendous stuff. Thank you all very much!

Sam

[Erato]

Another technique that I have used successfully in the U.S.:

If there is a city directory available for a year close to the census, find the names of people who lived on that street and then search for them on the census.

[oldohiohome]

also in the US censuses 1880 to 1950, go to https://stevemorse.org/ and search the page for Unified 1880-1950 Census ED Finder. Then be sure to put the correct year in at the top of the page before you start with the rest of the steps.

I have no idea what you get for results for 1950, which hasn't been released yet. maybe the images are available.