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1841 England Census

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Abberton Great Sampford Prittlewell
Abbots Roothing Great Stambridge Purleigh
Abbots Stapleford Great Tey Quendon
Aldham Great Totham Radwinter
All Saints Great Wakering Rainham
Alphamstone Great Waltham Ramsden Bellhouse
Althorne Great Warley Ramsden Crays
Ardleigh Great Wigborough Ramsey
Arkesden Great Yeldham Rawreth
Arlesford Greenstead Rayleigh
Ashdon Hadleigh Rayne
Asheldham Hadstock Rettendon
Ashen Halstead Rickling
Ashingdon Harlow Ridgwell
Avely Hatfield Rivenhall
Aytrop Roothing Hatfield Broad Oak Rochford
Ballingdon Havengore Island Romford
Bardfield Saling Haverill Roxwell
Barking Havering Atte Bower Roydon
Barling Hawkwell Runwell
Barnston Haydon Saffron Walden
Beauchamp Roothing Hazeleigh Salcott
Beaumont Cum Moze Hempstead Sandon
Belchamp Olton Henham Shalford
Berdon Heybridge Sheering
Bere Church High Easter Shelley
Berners Roothing High Laver Shellow Bowells
Birchanger High Ongar Shenfield
Birdbrook High Roothing Shopland
Bishops Wickham Hockley Sible Hedingham
Black Notley Holy Trinity Smealy Chignal
Blackmore Hornchurch South Benfleet
Bobbingworth Horndon On The Hill South Fambridge
Bocking Hutton South Hanningfield
Boreham Ingatestone South Ockendon
Borley Ingrave South Shoebury
Bowes Gifford Inworth South Weald
Boxted Kedington Southchurch
Bradfield Kelvedon Southminster
Bradwell Kelvedon Hatch Springfield
Bradwell Next The Sea Kirby Le Soken St Botolph
Braintree Knight Tolleshunt St Giles
Brightlingsea Laindon St James
Broomfield Lamarsh St James Chignal
Broxted Lambourne St Lawrence Newland
Bulmer Langenhoe St Leonard
Bulphan Langford St Martin
Bumpstead Helion Langham St Mary
Bumpstead Steeple Langley St Mary At The Walls
Burnham Latchingdon St Mary Bures
Buttsbury Latton St Mary Magdalen
Canewdon Lawford St Michael Mile End
Castle Hedingham Layer Breton St Nicholas
Chadwell St Mary Layer de la Hay St Osyth Chich
Chapel Layer Marney St Pauls Belchamp
Chelmsford Leaden Roothing St Peter
Chickney Leigh St Runwald
Chigwell Lexden Stambourne
Childerditch Lindsell Stanford Le Hope
Chingford Liston Stanford Rivers
Chipping Ongar Little Baddow Stansted Mountfitchet
Chrishall Little Bardfield Stanway
Clavering Little Bentley Stapleford Tawney
Cold Norton Little Braxted Stebbing
Copford Little Bromley Steeple
Corringham Little Burstead Stifford
Cranham Little Canfield Stisted
Creeksea Little Chesterford Stock
Cressing Little Chishall Stondon Massey
Dagenham Little Clacton Stow Maries
Danbury Little Dunmow Streethall
Debden Little Easton Sturmere
Dedham Little Hallingbury Sutton
Dengie Little Henny Takeley
Doddinghurst Little Holland Tendring
Dover Court Little Horksley Terling
Downham Little Ilford Thaxted
Dunton Little Laver Thorpe Le Soken
Earls Colne Little Leighs Thorrington
East Donyland Little Maplestead Thoydon Bois
East Ham Little Oakley Thoydon Garnon
East Hanningfield Little Parndon Thundersley
East Horndon Little Sampford Tilbury Juxta Clare
East Mersea Little Stambridge Tillingham
East Tilbury Little Tey Tilty
Easthorpe Little Thurrock Tollesbury
Eastwood Little Totham Tolleshunt Darcy
Elmdon Little Wakering Toppersfield
Elmstead Little Waltham Twinstead
Elsenham Little Warley Ugley
Engain Colne Little Wigborough Ulting
Epping Little Yeldham Upminster
Fairsted Littlebury Vange
Farnham Loughton Virley
Faulkbourn Low Leyton Walter Belchamp
Feering Magdalen Laver Waltham Abbey
Felstead Major Tolleshunt Walthamstow
Ferring Manewdon Walton Le Soken
Finchingfield Manningtree Wanstead
Fingringhoe Margaret Roothing Wates Colne
Fobbing Margaretting Weeley
Fordham Marks Tey Wendens Ambo
Foulness Markshall Wendon Lofts
Foxearth Mashbury Wennington
Frating Matching West Bergholt
Frinton Mayland West Ham
Fryering Messing West Hanningfield
Fyfield Middleton West Horndon
Gesthingthorpe Mistley West Mersea
Goldhanger Moreton West Thurrock
Good Easter Mount Bures West Tilbury
Gosfield Mount Thoydon Wethersfield
Grays Thurrock Mountnessing White Colne
Great and Little Birch Mucking White Notley
Great Baddow Mundon White Roothing
Great Bardfield Navestock Wicken Bonant
Great Bentley Nazeing Wickford
Great Braxted Netteswell Wickham St Paul
Great Bromley Nevendon Widdington
Great Burstead Newport Widford
Great Canfield North Benfleet Willingale Doe
Great Chesterford North Fambridge Willingale Spain
Great Chishall North Ockendon Wimbish
Great Clacton North Shoebury Witham
Great Coggeshall North Weald Bassett Wivenhoe
Great Dunmow Norton Manderville Wix
Great Easton Orsett Woodford
Great Hallingbury Ovington Woodford St Mary
Great Henny Paglesham Woodham Ferris
Great Holland Panfield Woodham Mortimer
Great Horksley Pattiswick Woodham Walter
Great Leighs Pebmarsh Wormingford
Great Maplestead Peldon Wrabness
Great Oakley Pentlow Writtle
Great Parndon Pitsea
Great Saling Plesthey

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.