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1881 England Census

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Please choose a civil parish in Shropshire:

Abdon Ercall Magna Pitchford
Acton Burnell Eyton Upon Wild Moors Pontesbury
Acton Round Farlow Posenhall
Acton Scott Farlow and Silvington Prees
Adderley Farmcote and Claverly Preston Gubbals
Alberbury Fitz Preston on Wild Moors
Albrighton Ford Quatford
Albrighton St Mary Frodesley Quatt
Alveley Glazeley Quatt Jervis
Ashford Bowdler Greet Ratlinghope
Ashford Carbonell Grinshill Richards Castle
Astley Gt Hanwood Rodington
Astley Abbotts Gt Ness Rushbury
Aston Botterell Habberley Ruyton of Eleven Towns
Atcham Hadnall Ryton
Badger Halford Selattyn
Barrow Harley Shawbury
Baschurch Haughmond Demesne Sheinton
Battlefield Highley Shelve
Beckbury Hinstock Sheriff Hales
Bedstone Hodnet Shifnal
Benthall Holdgate Shipton
Beobridge and Claverly Hope Baggot Shrawardine
Berrington Hope Bowdler Shrewsbury Holy Cross
Bettws Hopesay Shrewsbury St Alkmond
Billingsley Hopton Cangeford Shrewsbury St Chad
Bishops Castle In Hopton Castle Shrewsbury St Julian
Bishops Castle Out Hopton Wafers Shrewsbury St Mary
Bitterley Hordley Sibdon Carwood
Bolas Magna Hughley Sidbury
Boningale Hyssington Silberton
Boraston Ightfield Silvington
Boscobel Kemberton Smethcott
Bridgnorth St Leonard Kenley St Lawrence
Bridgnorth St Mary Magdalen Kinlet St Martin
Bromfield Kinnerley Stanton Lacy
Brompton and Rhiston Kinnersley Stanton Long
Broseley Knockin Stanton Upon Hine Heath
Broughton Lee Brockhurst Stapleton
Buildwas Leebotwood Stirchley
Burford Leighton Stockton
Burwarton Leintwardine Stoke St Milborough
Cainham Lilleshall Stoke Upon Tern
Cardeston Linley Stokesay
Cardington Llanfair Waterdine Stottesdon
Chelmarsh Llansilin Stowe
Cheswardine Llanyblodwell Sutton
Chetton Llanymynech Sutton Maddock
Chetwynd Longdon Upon Tern Tasley
Childs Ercall Longford The Woodhouse
Chirbury Longnor Tong
Church Preen Loppington Tugford
Church Pulverbach Loughton Uffington
Church Stretton Lt Wenlock Uppington
Claverley Ludford Upton Magna
Clee St Margaret Ludlow St Lawrence W Felton
Cleobury Mortimer Lydbury North Waters Upton
Cleobury North Lydham Wellington
Clive Madeley Welsh Hampton
Clun Mainstone Wem
Clun - Eddycliff Melverley Wentnor
Clunbury Meole Brace Westbury
Clungunford Middle Wheathill
Cold Weston Middleton Priors Whitchurch
Condover Middleton Scriven Whitchurch - Alkington
Coreley Milson Whitchurch - Black Park
Cound Mindtown Whitchurch - Broughall
Cressage Minsterley Whitchurch - Hinton
Culmington Monkhopton Whitchurch - Hollyhurst and Chinnel
Dawley Montford Whitchurch - New Woodhouses
Deuxhill More Whitchurch - Old Woodhouses
Diddlebury Moreton Corbet Whitchurch - Tilstock
Ditton Moreton Say Whittington
Ditton Priors Morville Whittington - English Frankton
Donington Much Wenlock Whitton
Dowles Munslow Willey
Drayton in Hales N Lydbury Wistanstow
Eardington Nash Wistanstow - Cheney Longville
Easthope Neen Savage Withington
Eaton Neen Sollars Wollaston
Eaton Constantine Neenton Wombridge
Edgmond Newport Woolstaston
Edgton Norbury Woore
Ellesmere Norton in Hales Worfield
Ellesmere - Cockshutt and Crosemere Oldbury Worthen
Ellesmere - Criftins Onibury Worthen - Hope
Ellesmere - Kenwick Stockett and Whettall Oswestry Rural Woundale and Claverly
Ellesmere - Kenwick Wood Oswestry Town Wrockwardine
Ellesmere - Penley Pattingham Wroxeter
Ellesmere - Trench Petton

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.