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1871 England Census

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Please choose a civil parish in Essex:

Abberton Great Sampford Radwinter
Abbotts Roothing Great Stambridge Rainham
Aldham Great Tey Ramsden Bellhouse
All Saints Great Totham Ramsden Crays
Alphamstone Great Wakering Ramsey
Alresford Great Waltham Rawreth
Althorne Great Warley Rayleigh
Ardleigh Great Wigborough Rayne
Arkesden Great Yeldham Rettendon
Ashden Greenstead Rickling
Ashdon Greenstead St John Ridgewell
Asheldham Greensted Rivenhall
Ashingdon Hadleigh Rochester
Aveley Hadstock Rochford
Aythorpe Roding Halls Green and Roydon Romford
Bardfield Saling Halstead Roothing Beauchamp
Barking Harlow Roothing Berners
Barling Harold Wood Roxwell
Barnston Harold Wood Ward Roydon
Bartlow Hatfield Roydon Hamlet
Basildon Hatfield Broad Oak Runwell
Beaumont Hatfield Peveral Saffron Walden
Beeleigh Road St Peter Haverhill Salcott
Beeleigh St Peter Havering atte Bower Sandon
Belchamp Otten Hawkwell Santon
Belchamp St Paul Hazeleigh Shalford
Belchamp Walter Helions Bumpstead Sheering
Berden Hempstead Shelley
Berechurch Henham Shellow Bowells
Billericay Heybridge Shenfield
Birch Heydon Sible Hedingham
Birchanger High Easter Snaresbrook Wanstead
Birdbrook High Laver Snoreham
Black Notley High Ongar Snoreham St Peter
Blackmore High Roothing South Benfleet
Bobbingworth Hill Lane South Fambridge
Bocking Hockley South Hanningfield
Boreham Holy Trinity South Hornchurch
Borley Hornchurch South Ockenden
Bowers Gifford Horndon on the Hill South Shoebury
Boxted Hutton South Weald
Bradfield Ingatestone Southchurch
Bradwell Ingrave Southminster
Bradwell on Sea Inworth Spital Road St Peter
Braintree Kedington Springfield
Brentwood Kelvedon St Botolph
Brightlingsea Kelvedon Hatch St Botolph and St Giles
Broadley Common and Roydon Kirby St Giles
Broomfield Laindon St Giles Holy Trinity and St Botolph
Broxted Laindon Hills St James
Bulmer Lamarsh St John the Evangelist
Bulphan Lambourne St Lawrence
Bures Lambourne Brook St Leonard
Burness Langenhoe St Margaret
Burnham Langford St Martin
Buttsbury Langham St Mary
Canewdon Langley St Mary at the Walls
Castle Hedingham Latton St Mary Magdalene
Catmere End Lawford St Nicholas
Chadwell St Mary Layer Breton St Osyth
Chelmsford Layer de la Haye St Peter
Chickney Layer Marney St Peter and St Paul
Chignall Smealy Leaden Roding St Runwald
Chignall St James Leigh Stambourne
Chigwell Lexden Stanford le Hope
Chigwell Row Leyton Stanford Rivers
Chigwell St Mary Lindsell Stanstead
Childerditch Liston Stansted Mountfitchet
Chingford Little Baddow Stanway
Chipping Hill Little Bardfield Stanway All Saints
Chipping Ongar Little Bentley Stapleford Abbots
Chrishall Little Braxted Stapleford Tawney
Clavering Little Bromley Stebbing
Coggeshall Little Burstead Steeple
Colchester Little Canfield Steeple Bumpstead
Colchester St Botolph Little Chesterford Stifford
Cold Norton Little Chishall Stisted
Colne Engaine Little Clacton Stock
Copford Little Coggeshall Stondon Massey
Corringham Little Dunmow Stow Maries
Cranham Little Easton Strethall
Creeksea Little Hallingbury Sturmere
Cressing Little Henny Takeley
Dagenham Little Horkesley Tendring
Danbury Little Ilford Terling
Debden Little Laver Thaxted
Dedham Little Leighs Theydon Bois
Dengie Little Maplestead Theydon Garnon
Doddinghurst Little Oakley Thorpe
Downham Little Parndon Thorrington
Dunmow Little Sampford Thoydon Mount
Dunton Little Stambridge Thundersley
Earls Colne Little Tey Tilbury
East Donyland Little Thurrock Tillingham
East Ham Little Totham Tilty
East Ham St Mary Magdalene Little Wakering Tollesbury
East Hanningfield Little Waltham Tolleshunt Darcy
East Horndon Little Warley Tolleshunt Knights
East Horndon and Herongate Little Wigborough Tolleshunt Major
East Mersea Little Yeldham Toppesfield
East Tilbury Littlebury Tulbridge St Peter
Easthorpe Littlebury Green Twinstead
Eastwood Loughton Ugley
Elmdon Lower Southend and Milton Ulting
Elmstead Magdalen Laver Union Lane St Peter
Elsenham Maldon St Peter Upminster
Epping Manningtree Vange
Epping Green Manuden Vessels
Epping Upland Margaret Roding Virley
Essex Margaretting Wakes Colne
Fairsted Market Hill St Peter Waltham Holy Cross
Farnham Marks Tey Walthamstow
Faulkbourne Mary Magdalene Walthamstow St Mary
Feering Mashbury Walton
Felstead Matching Walton le Soken
Finchingfield Mayland Wanstead
Fingringhoe Messing Weeley
Fobbing Middlemead Wendens Ambo
Fordham Middleton Wendon Lofts
Foulness Mile End Wennington
Foxearth Mistley West Bergholt
Frating Moreton West Ham
Frinton Mount Bures West Hanningfield
Fryerning Mountnessing West Horndon
Fulbridge St Peter Mucking West Mersea
Fyfield Mundon West Thurrock
Gestingthorpe Navestock West Tilbury
Goldhanger Nazeing Wethersfield
Good Easter Netteswell White Colne
Gosfield Nevendon White Notley
Grays Newport White Roothing
Great Baddow North Benfleet Wicken
Great Bardfield North Fambridge Wickford
Great Bentley North Hornchurch Wickham Bishops
Great Braxted North Ockenden Wickham St Paul
Great Bromley North Shoebury Widdington
Great Burstead North Weald Widford
Great Canfield North Weald Bassett Willingale Doe
Great Chesterford North Wood Willingale Spain
Great Chishall Norton Mandeville Wimbish
Great Clacton Orange Winter Street St Peter
Great Coggeshall Orsett Witham
Great Coggeshall and Marks Hall Ovington Witham Chipping Hill
Great Dunmow Paglesham Wivenhoe
Great Easton Panfield Wix
Great Hallingbury Pattiswick Woodford
Great Henny Pebmarsh Woodford Bridge
Great Holland Peldon Woodham Ferrers
Great Horkesley Pentlow Woodham Mortimer
Great Leighs Pitsea Woodham Walter
Great Maplestead Pleshey Wormingford
Great Oakley Prittlewell Wrabness
Great Parndon Purleigh Writtle
Great Saling Quendon Wyke Hill St Peter

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.