The 1861 Census UK Online - Records for England and Wales

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1861 Census UK Online

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The 1861 Census for England
The 1861 Census for England was taken on the night of 31 March 1861. Census returns were collected according to registration district. These returns were divided into sub-districts and assigned consecutive piece numbers for reference purposes.

Bedfordshire	Herefordshire	Royal Navy
Berkshire	Hertfordshire	Rutland
Buckinghamshire	Huntingdonshire	Shropshire
Cambridgeshire	Kent	Somerset
Cheshire	Lancashire	Staffordshire
Cornwall	Leicestershire	Suffolk
Cumberland	Lincolnshire	Surrey
Derbyshire	London	Sussex
Devon	Middlesex	Warwickshire
Dorset	Norfolk	Westmorland
Durham	Northamptonshire	Wiltshire
Essex	Northumberland	Worcestershire
Gloucestershire	Nottinghamshire	Yorkshire
Hampshire	Oxfordshire

The 1861 Census for Wales
The 1861 Census for Wales was taken on the night of 31 March 1861. Census returns were collected according to registration district. These returns were divided into sub-districts and assigned consecutive piece numbers for reference purposes.

Anglesey	Denbighshire	Montgomeryshire
Breconshire	Flintshire	Pembrokeshire
Caernarvonshire	Glamorgan	Radnorshire
Cardiganshire	Merionethshire
Carmarthenshire	Monmouthshire

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