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The 1881 census was the first UK census to be indexed in its entirety. In the 1980s, in a project that has been characterised as "the largest collection of historical source material to be made available in computerised form", [5] and "the first major 'crowd-sourced' exercise in the world", [6] the Genealogical Society of Utah began collaborating with the Federation of Family History Societies ...
* The figures for 1881 in the source do not cross-cast precisely. The source gives figures for a very large number of subdivisions of the hundreds etc., including parishes and many small extra-parochial areas, especially in and around the City of London. The treatments from one census to the next are not precisely consistent.
Census returns 1841-1901 for Wrexham County Borough; Census returns 1891-1901 for Denbighshire and Flintshire; Census indexes 1881 for Wales, Cheshire, Lancashire and Shropshire; National Probate Indexes for England and Wales 1858-1943; Newspapers from ~1850 [10] Parish registers for parishes in Wrexham County Borough
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 census took place on April 4, 1881, having been assented to via the Census Act on May 15, 1879. The total population count of Canada was 4,324,810. [ 1 ] Dependent on the quoted figure, this is either a 24.1% increase from the 1871 census's 3,485,761, or a 17.2% increase from the 1871 estimate's 3,689,257.
During the decennial England and Wales Censuses of 1841 to 1901, the individual schedules returned from each household were transcribed and collated by the census enumerators into Census Enumerators' Books (CEBs). It is these CEBs that are used by researchers in the fields of social science, local and family history etc. Their contents changed ...
3 April – census in the United Kingdom. Two-thirds of the population are urbanised; one-seventh live in London. 5 April – the Treaty of Pretoria gives the Boers self-government in the Transvaal under a theoretical British oversight. [5]
The 1881 census counted over 1 million inhabitants in the East End, a third of whom lived in poverty. [67] The Cheap Trains Act 1883, while it enabled many working class Londoners to move away from the inner city, also accentuated [clarification needed] the poverty in areas like the East End, where the most destitute were left behind. [51]