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The United Kingdom Census of 1841 recorded the occupants of every United Kingdom household on the night of Sunday 6 June 1841. [2] The enactment of the Population Act 1840 meant a new procedure was adopted for taking the 1841 census. It was described as the "first modern census" as it was the first to record information about every member of ...
The site is a partnership between National Records of Scotland and Court of the Lord Lyon. ScotlandsPeople offered 50 accounts to their database. Unlike some other TWL resources, ScotlandsPeople provided approved Wikipedia users with 1000 credits to use on the site to access online records, instead of a time-limited account.
In conjunction with the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS), the NAS supplies content for the ScotlandsPeople website, allowing searches in pre-1855 old parish registers (OPRs); statutory registers of births, marriages and deaths from 1855; census returns, 1841–1921; and the testaments digitally captured by the SCAN project. [14] [15]
TheGenealogist started with the need to provide census indexes in 2002 and an initial volunteer project of indexing the 1891 census called UK Indexer. [2] The volunteer project at www.ukindexer.co.uk proved very popular and was a rewarding hobby for family historians to help provide quality, accurate data that was used on TheGenealogist. [3]
The census in the United Kingdom is decennial, that is, held every ten years, although there is provision in the Census Act 1920 for a census to take place at intervals of five years or more. There are actually three separate censuses in the United Kingdom – in England and Wales , Scotland , and Northern Ireland – although they are often co ...
The Statistical Accounts of Scotland Online gives access to the Old and the New accounts and has an introduction from which much of this article is taken. Google Books also has the Accounts free of charge. ElectricScotland hosts pdf copies of Google's scans of the First and Second Statistical Accounts.
National Records of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Clàran Nàiseanta na h-Alba) is a non-ministerial department of the Scottish Government. It is responsible for civil registration , the census in Scotland , demography and statistics , family history , as well as the national archives and historical records.
No census was taken in 1921 due to the disruption of the Irish War of Independence. The first census taken in the Irish Free State (now the Republic of Ireland) was in April 1926; the first Northern Ireland census occurred at the same time. [22] No census took place in Northern Ireland in 1931, but one took place there in 1937. [23]