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1861 England Census

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

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.