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1881 England Census

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Abram Formby Over Wyresdale
Accrington Forton Overton
Adlington Foulridge Padiham
Aighton Bailey and Chaigley Freckleton Parbold
Ainsworth Fulwood Parr
Aintree Garstang Pemberton
Aldcliffe Garston Pendlebury
Aldingham Golborne Pendleton in Clitheroe
Alkrington Goldshaw Booth Pendleton in Salford
Allerton Goosnargh Penketh
Alston Gorton Pennington in Leigh
Altcar Great and Little Marsden Pennington in Ulverston
Altham Great Bolton Penwortham
Anderton Great Crosby Pilkington
Angerton Great Eccleston Pilling
Anglezarke Great Harwood Pilsworth
Ardwick Great Heaton Pleasington
Arkholme with Cawood Great Lever Poulton Barre and Torrisholme
Ashton in Makerfield Great Sankey Poulton le Fylde
Ashton U Lyne Greenhalgh with Thistleton Poulton with Fearnhead
Ashton Under Lyne Gressingham Preesall with Hackinsall
Ashton with Stodday Grimsargh with Brockholes Prescot
Ashworth Habergham Eaves Preston
Aspull Haigh Prestwich
Astley Haighton Priest Hutton
Atherton Hale Quarlton
Aughton Halewood Quernmore
Balderstone Halliwell Radcliffe
Barley with Wheatley Booth Halsall Rainford
Barnacre with Bonds Halton Rainhill
Barrow in Furness Hambleton Ramsgreave
Barrowford Booth Hapton Read
Barton in Preston Hardhorn with Newton Reddish
Barton Upon Irwell Harpurhey Reedley Hallows
Bedford Harwood Ribbleton
Beswick Haslingden Ribby with Wray
Bickerstaffe Haughton Ribchester
Billinge Chapel End Hawkshead Monk Coniston Skelwith Rishton
Billinge Higher End Haydock Rivington
Billington Heap Rixton with Glazebrook
Bilsborrow Heapey Rochdale
Birkdale Heath Charnock Roeburndale
Birtle cum Bamford Heaton Roughlee Booth
Bispham Heaton Norris Royton
Bispham with Norbreck Heaton with Oxcliffe Rufford
Blackburn Henheads Rumworth
Blackley Hesketh cum Becconsall Rusholme
Blackrod Heskin Salesbury
Blatchinworth and Calderbrook Heyhouses Salford
Blawith Heysham Samlesbury
Bleasdale Higham with West Close Booth Satterthwaite
Bold Higher Booths Scarisbrick
Bolton le Sands Hindley Scotforth
Bootle cum Linacre Hoghton Sefton
Borwick Holleth Sharples
Bradford Hopwood Shevington
Bradshaw Hornby Silverdale
Breightmet Horwich Simonstone
Bretherton Hothersall Simonswood
Briercliffe cum Extwistle Houghton Middleton and Arbury Singleton
Brindle Howick Skelmersdale
Broughton in Preston Hulme Skerton
Broughton in Salford Huncoat Slyne with Hest
Brying with Kellamergh Hutton South Toxteth
Bulk Huyton with Roby Southworth with Croft
Burnage Ightenhill Park Speke
Burnley Ince Blundell Spotland
Burrow with Burrow Ince in Makerfield Stalmine with Staynall
Burscough Inskip with Sowerby Standish with Langtree
Burtonwood Ireby Staveley
Bury Kearsley Stretford
Butterworth Kenyon Subberthwaite
Cabus Kirkby Sutton
Cantsfield Kirkby Ireleth Tarbock
Carleton Kirkdale Tarleton
Carnforth Kirkham Tatham
Cartmel Fell Kirkland Thornham
Castleton Knowsley Thornley cum Wheatley
Caton Lancaster Thornton in Fylde
Catterall Lathom Thornton in Sefton
Chadderton Layton with Warbreck Thurnham
Charnock Richard Lea Ashton Ingol and Cottam Tockholes
Chatburn Leagram Todmorden and Walsden
Cheetham Leck Tonge
Childwall Levenshulme Tonge with Haulgh
Chipping Leyland Torver
Chorley Litherland Tottington Higher End
Chorlton cum Hardy Little Bolton Tottington Lower End
Chorlton on Medlock Little Bolton Higher End Toxteth Park
Church Little Bowland Trawden
Church Coniston Little Crosby Treales Roseacre and Wharles
Claife Little Eccleston with Larbreck Tunstall
Claughton in Garstang Little Harwood Turton
Claughton in Lunesdale Little Heaton Twiston
Clayton le Dale Little Hoole Tyldesley cum Shakerley
Clayton le Moors Little Hulton Ulnes Walton
Clayton le Woods Little Lever Ulverston
Clevely Little Mitton Upholland
Clifton Little Woolton Upper Allithwaite
Clifton cum Salwick Liverpool Upper Allithwaite and E Broughton
Clitheroe Livesey Upper and Lower Allithwaite
Clitheroe Castle Longton Upper Holker
Cliviger Longworth Upper Rawcliffe with Tarnacre
Cockerham Lostock Urmston
Cockersand Abbey Lower Allithwaite Urswick
Colne Lower and Upper Holker Vessels
Colton Lower Booths Walmersley cum Shuttleworth
Coppull Lower Darwen Walton le Dale
Cowpe Lench Newhall Hey and Hall Carr Lower Holker Walton on Hill
Crompton Lowick Wardleworth
Cronton Lowton Warrington
Croston Lunt Warton
Croxteth Park Lydiate Warton with Lindeth
Crumpsall Lytham Wavertree
Cuerdale Maghull Weeton with Preece
Cuerdley Manchester Welsh Whittle
Cuerdon Mansriggs Wennington
Culcheth Marton West Broughton
Dalton in Furness Mawdesley West Derby
Dalton in Kendal Medlar with Wesham Westby with Plumpton
Dalton in Wigan Melling Westhoughton
Darcy Lever Melling with Wrayton Westleigh
Denton Mellor Whalley
Didsbury Middle Hulton Wheatley Carr Booth
Dilworth Middleton in Lancaster Wheelton
Dinckley Middleton in Oldham Whiston
Ditton Moss Side Whittingham
Downham Moston Whittington
Downholland Much Hoole Whittle le Woods
Droylsden Much Woolton Widnes
Dunnerdale with Seathwaite Musbury Wigan
Dunnockshaw Myerscough Wilpshire
Dutton Nateby Windle
Duxbury Nether Kellet Winmarleigh
East Broughton Nether Wyresdale Winstanley
Eccleshill Netherton Winwick with Hulme
Eccleston in Chorley Newchurch Wiswell
Eccleston in Prescot Newton Withington
Edgeworth Newton in Makerfield Withnell
Egton cum Newland Newton with Scales Witton
Ellel North Meols Woodplumpton
Elston Old Laund Booth Woolston with Martinscroft
Elswick Oldham Worsley
Elton Openshaw Worsthorne cum Hurstwood
Entwistle Orell and Ford Worston
Euxton Ormskirk Worthington
Everton Orrell Wray with Botton
Failsworth Osbaldeston Wrightington
Farington Osmotherley Wuerdle and Wardle
Farleton Oswaldtwistle Yate and Pickup Bank
Farnworth Out Rawcliffe Yealand Conyers
Fazakerley Over Darwen Yealand Redmayne
Fishwick Over Hulton
Flixton Over Kellet

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.