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1881 England Census

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Abberton Great Coggeshall Ovington
Abbots Roothing Great Dunmow Paglesham
Aldham Great Easton Panfield
Alphamstone Great Hallingbury Pattiswick
Alresford Great Henny Pebmarsh
Althorne Great Holland Peldon
Ardleigh Great Horkesley Pentlow
Arkesden Great Leighs Pitsea
Ashdon Great Maplestead Pleshey
Asheldham Great Oakley Prittlewell
Ashen Great Parndon Purleigh
Ashingdon Great Saling Quendon
Aveley Great Sampford Radwinter
Aythorpe Roothing Great Stambridge Rainham
Ballingdon cum Brundon Great Tey Ramsden Bell House
Bardfield Saling Great Totham Ramsden Crays
Barking Great Wakering Ramsey
Barling Great Waltham Rawreth
Barnston Great Warley Rayleigh
Bartlow Great Wigborough Rayne
Basildon Great Yeldham Rettendon
Beauchamp Roothing Greenstead Rickling
Beaumont Hadleigh Ridgwell
Beaumont with Moze Hadstock Rivenhall
Belchamp Otten Halstead Rochford
Belchamp St Paul Harlow Romford
Belchamp Walter Harwich St Nicholas Roxwell
Berden Hatfield Broad Oak Roydon
Berechurch Hatfield Peverel Runwell
Berners Roothing Haverhill Saffron Walden
Birch Havering Saint Peter
Birchanger Hawkwell Salcott
Birdbrook Hazeleigh Sandon
Black Notley Hempstead Shalford
Blackmore Henham Sheering
Bobbingworth Heybridge Shelley
Bocking Heydon Shellow Bowells
Boreham High Easter Shenfield
Borley High Laver Shopland
Bowers Gifford High Ongar Sible Hedingham
Boxted High Roothing South Benfleet
Bradfield Hockley South Fambridge
Bradwell Hornchurch South Hanningfield
Bradwell by Coggleshall Horndon on Hill South Ockendon
Braintree Hutton South Shoebury
Brentwood Ingatestone South Weald
Brightlingsea Ingrave Southchurch
Broomfield Inworth Southminster
Broxted Kelvedon Springfield
Bulmer Kelvedon Hatch St Botolph
Bulphan Kirby le Soken St Botolph and St Giles
Bures St Mary Laindon St Giles
Burnham Lamarsh St Lawrence Newland
Buttsbury Lambourne St Mary
Canewdon Langdon Hills St Mary Layton
Canvey Island Langenhoe St Osyth
Castle Hedingham Langford Stambourne
Chadwell St Mary Langham Stanford le Hope
Chapel Langley Stanford Rivers
Chelmsford Latchingdon and Snoreham Stanstead
Chester All Sts Lawford Stansted Mountfitchet
Chester St Nicholas Layer Breton Stanway
Chignal Smealy Layer De La Hay Stapleford Abbots
Chignall St James Layer Marney Stapleford Tawney
Chigwell Leaden Roothing Stebbing
Childerditch Lee Chapel Steeple
Chingford Leigh Steeple Bumpstead
Chipping Ongar Lexden Stifford
Chrishall Leyton Stisted
Clavering Leyton Low Stock
Colchester All Sts Lindsell Stondon Massey
Colchester Holy Trinity Liston Stow Maries
Colchester St Botolph Little Baddow Strethall
Colchester St Giles Little Bardfield Sturmere
Colchester St James Little Bentley Sutton
Colchester St Leonard Little Braxted Takeley
Colchester St Martin Little Bromley Tendring
Colchester St Mary at Walls Little Burstead Tendring St Nicolas Harwich
Colchester St Mary Magdalen Little Canfield Terling
Colchester St Nicholas Little Chesterford Thaxted
Colchester St Peter Little Chishall Theydon Bois
Colchester St Runwald Little Clacton Theydon Garnon
Cold Norton Little Coggeshall Theydon Mount
Colne Engaine Little Dunmow Thorpe
Copford Little Easton Thorpe le Soken
Corringham Little Hallingbury Thorrington
Cranham Little Henny Thundersley
Creeksea Little Holland Tilbury
Cressing Little Horkesley Tillingham
Dagenham Little Ilford Tilty
Danbury Little Laver Tollesbury
Debden Little Leighs Tolleshunt D Arcy
Dedham Little Maplestead Tolleshunt Knights
Dengie Little Oakley Tolleshunt Major
Doddinghurst Little Parndon Toppesfield
Dovercourt Little Sampford Twinstead
Downham Little Stambridge Ugley
Dunton Little Tey Ulting
Earls Colne Little Thurrock Upminster
East Donyland Little Totham Vange
East Ham Little Wakering Vessels
East Hanningfield Little Wakering and Havenport Virley
East Horndon Little Waltham Wakes Colne
East Mersea Little Warley Waltham Holy Cross
East Tilbury Little Wigborough Walthamstow
Easthorpe Little Yeldham Walthanstow
Eastwood Littlebury Walton le Soken
Elmdon Loughton Wanstead
Elmstead Magdalen Laver Weeley
Elsenham Maldon All Sts Wendens Ambo
Epping Maldon St Marys Wendon Lofts
Fairsted Maldon St Peter Wennington
Farnham Manningtree West Bergholt
Faulkbourn Manuden West Ham
Feering Margaret Roothing West Hanningfield
Felstead Margaretting West Horndon
Finchingfield Marks Tey West Mersea
Fingringhoe Markshall West Thurrock
Fingrinhoe Mashbury West Tilbury
Fobbing Matching Wethersfield
Fordham Mayland White Colne
Forest Gate Messing White Notley
Foulness Middleton White Roothing
Foxearth Mile End Wicken Bonant
Frating Mistley Wickford
Frinton Moreton Wickham Bishops
Fryerning Mount Bures Wickham St Paul
Fyfield Mountnessing Widdington
Gestingthorpe Mucking Widford
Goldhanger Mundon Willingale Doe
Good Easter Navestock Willingale Spain
Gosfield Nazeing Wimbish
Grays Thurrock Netteswell Witham
Great Baddow Nevendon Wivenhoe
Great Bardfield Newport Wix
Great Bentley North Benfleet Woodford
Great Braxted North Fambridge Woodford St Mary
Great Bromley North Ockendon Woodham Ferris
Great Burstead North Shoebury Woodham Mortimer
Great Canfield North Weald Bassett Woodham Walter
Great Chesterford North Wood Wormingford
Great Chishall Norton Mandeville Wrabness
Great Clacton Orsett Writtle

Census Records - Parishes

After separating census records into groups by county, the British Government subdivided these records into civil parish groups. Many times, but not always, the civil parish name is the same as the local ecclesiastical parish. Researchers should also be aware of boundary line or jurisdictional changes through time. These changes may affect where an ancestor was recorded on the census, so it remains important to search the parishes surrounding the area where your ancestor lived.