Extracting data from a UK census

[Daffodilica]

Is it possible to somehow extract a list of all occurences of one surname from a UK census? I want to create a list, e.g. all people with the surname Saull from the 1841 census, that I can then use to create a map of where those surnames appear.

Thanks - any advice on how to do this would be gratefully received!

[KGarrad]

I did that myself on the 1851 census for Vanstone

Cut-and-Paste into an Excel spreadsheet worked for me.

I used the free index on FindMyPast.

Saull should be easy - there's only 78 of them

[Daffodilica]

Thanks - I'll give it a go. Just created an excel list from FamilySearch, so I'll try Find My Past next!

[rosie99]

Thanks - I'll give it a go. Just created an excel list from FamilySearch, so I'll try Find My Past next!

Doesn't familysearch draw its information for most census from findmypast.  They certainly give a link to it.

[Daffodilica]

I think so - I'll try and extract from both sites and see if there are any differences 

[jc26red]

You might also want to consider doing the same with spelling variations.

[Daffodilica]

Thanks - will do. I'm going to have a play around with data over the weekend.