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The census was conducted under the Census Act 1920, which prohibits disclosure for 100 years after the census was taken. [4]On 27 February 2019 Findmypast announced that it had been awarded the contract by the UK National Archives (in association with the Office for National Statistics) to digitise the 1921 census for England and Wales and publish it online. [1]
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 ...
In 1965, a small group of professional genealogists and probate researchers called themselves "Title Research". They did much of their research using microfiche records. In 2001, Title Research started an in-house project, called "1837 online", to produce a computerised version of the birth, marriage and death register pages of the General Register Office (GRO), and the following year began ...
Historian David Olusoga said the survey captured ‘one of the most dramatic and dangerous moments in history’.
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]
Authors Arthur Conan Doyle and Beatrix Potter are included on the handwritten returns, as well as a one-year-old Captain Sir Tom Moore.
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The individual records from the 1921 census were protected by the privacy provisions that forbade their release for 100 years, and thus they only became available in January 2022. [10] The individual records concerning England and Wales from the 1931 census were entirely destroyed by a fire of indeterminate cause in December 1942. [11] [3]