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1861 England Census

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

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.