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1851 England Census

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

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.