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1861 England Census

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Please choose a civil parish in Berkshire:

Abingdon St Helen Eaton Hastings Shaw cum Donnington
Abingdon St Nicholas Enborne Shellingford
Aldermaston Englefield Shinfield
Aldworth Extraparochial Shottesbrook
Allhallows Faringdon Shrivenham
Appleton and Eaton Farnborough Shrivenham and Watchfield
Arborfield Fawley Sonning
Ardington Fernham Sonning and Woodley
Ashampstead Finchampstead Sotwell
Ashbury Frilford South Hinksey
Aston Tirrold Frilsham South Moreton
Avington Fyfield Southstoke
Bagley Wood and Chandlings Garford Sparsholt
Barkham Great Coxwell Speen
Basildon Great Faringdon Stanford
Baulking Greenham Stanford Dingley
Beech Hill Hampstead Marshall Steventon
Beedon Hampstead Norris Stratfield Mortimer
Beenham Harwell Streatley
Besselsleigh Hatford Sulham
Binfield Hawkridge Sulhampstead Abbots
Bisham Hinton Waldrist Sulhampstead Bannister
Blewbury Hungerford Sunninghill
Bourton Hurley Sunningwell
Boxford Hurst Sutton Courtney
Bradfield Inkpen Sutton Wick
Bray Kennington Swallowfield
Bright Waltham Kingston Bagpuize Thatcham
Brightwell Kingston Lisle Tidmarsh
Brimpton Kintbury Tilehurst
Buckland Lambourn Tubney
Bucklebury Leckhampstead Uffington
Burghfield Letcombe Bassett Upton
Buscot Letcombe Regis Vessels
Catmore Little Coxwell Wallingford
Chaddleworth Little Wilbraham Wallingford Castle
Charlton Little Wittenham Wallingford St Leonard
Charney Long Wittenham Wallingford St Mary the More
Chieveley Longcot Wallingford St Peter
Childrey Longworth Waltham St Lawrence
Chilton Lyford Wantage
Chilton Foliatt Marcham Warfield
Cholsey Midgham Wargrave
Clapcot Milton Welford
Clewer Moulsford West Hagbourne
Coleshill New Windsor West Hanney
Coleshill and Great Coxwell Newbury West Hendred
Compton Newland West Ilsley
Compton Beauchamp North Hinksey West Lockinge
Cookham North Moreton West Shefford
Culham Old Windsor West Woodhay
Cumnor Padworth White Waltham
Dedworth Pangbourne Windsor
Denchworth Peasemore Winkfield
Didcot Purley Winnersh
Draycot Moor Pusey Winterbourne
Drayton Radley Wokefield
Earley Reading St Giles Wokingham
East Garston Reading St Lawrence Woolhampton
East Hagbourne Reading St Mary Woolstone
East Hanney Remenham Wootton
East Hendred Ruscombe Wytham
East Ilsley Sandhurst Yattendon
East Lockinge Sandleford
Easthampstead Seacourt

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.