Census Returns
A summary of every households response to the census that we all have to complete every ten years, is made available to the public after 100 hundred years. Thus, since the first complete census conducted in 1841, returns are available for every tenth year up to and including 1901. The national returns are held in London and local returns are held at most local record offices and/or libraries. The 1901 cnesus returns have been published on the Internet (address - http://www.census.pro.gov.uk). The census returns give personal details for all the inhabitants of every address in the UK. They included full name, age, marital status, relationship to head of household, occupation and place of birth, and are thus an invaluable tool for the family historian.
Indexes to some census returns on a local scale have been published by various family and history societies, private individuals and research and educational institutions. The LDS has published an index and full transcript of the 1881 census on microfiche and CD-ROM.
