Genealogy Chat

Could anyone tell me which month the 1901 census came out.
Linda S

I think it was on the night of 31st March

Thanks Annette
Linda S

Excuse me. The 1901 census took place on the night of Sunday 7/8 April 1901. It was published on the first working day of 2002.

According to my records Annette was correct, the 1901 census was taken 31 March. 1861 was the 7th. April.

Victor,
Not according to the National Archives own website - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/rdleaflet.asp?sLeafletID=326&j=1

Along with many others including Ancestry.

RobG

Cut & pasted from the above website:

The dates of the censuses were as follows:

1841 6 June 1881 3 April
1851 30 March 1891 5 April
1861 7 April 1901 31 March
1871 2 April

The 1901 Census for England was taken on the night of 31 March 1901. The following information was requested: Name of street, avenue road, etc.; house number or name; whether or not the house was inhabited; number of rooms occupied if less than five; name of each person that had spent the night in that household; relationship of person enumerated to the head of the family; each person's marital status; age at last birthday (sex is indicated by which column the age is recorded in); each person's occupation; whether they are employer or employee or neither; person's place of birth; whether deaf, dumb, blind, or lunatic.

Enumeration forms were distributed to all households a couple of days before census night and the complete forms were collected the next day. All responses were to reflect the individual's status as of 31 March 1901 for all individuals who had spent the night in the house. People who were traveling or living abroad were enumerated at the location where they spent the night on census night. All of the details from the individual forms were later sorted and copied into enumerators' books, which are the records we can view images of today. The original householder's schedules from 1841 to 1901 were destroyed.

I do apologise. My reference was wrong. It was the night of 31 March 1901. So sorry.

Apart from the 1841 which was taken at the beginning of June all the rest were taken in that week beginning 31 March and ending 7 April.

Sorry to be a nit-picker but 1851 was 30 March.

I stand corrected Margaret! I have a list of them all written down in the back of my notebook but I only ever need to worry about the detail if I think someone may have been born very close to the date of the census. The only one to remember is the 1841 as it's such a different date.

I, too, have a list of them on a post-it note right beside the computer. Comes in handy when you have a child's age in months or, better still, weeks.