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Hi Can anyone tell me how to search a certain address on the 1841 census on Ancestry. Is it possible? I want to know who lived at that address at that time. i cannot seem to get it to come up on familysearch.com

Thanks

Diana

The only way I know how to do this is quite laborious ...

Search 1841 census using residence county and parish (you don't need to enter the parish, but will have to scroll through the results to find the right one). You will however have to put in at least a surname - you only have to put in 3 letters and a wildcard so maybe try Smi*!
View image for any of the results that come up for the correct county and parish.

At the top of the image page it will have e.g.
You are here: Search > Census > UK Census Collection > 1841 England Census > Buckinghamshire > Monks Risborough > District 2

If you click on the place name before the district no. you will then get a list of the districts in that parish, in the above e.g. these are:
Please choose an enumeration district in Monks Risborough:
District 1 View description of enumeration district
District 2 View description of enumeration district
District 3 View description of enumeration district

You can then click on "view description" for each one and it will tell you which streets are included and you can pick the correct district to look at, finding the street today on www.streetmap.co.uk will help if it still exists.

Once you know the right district click on where it says e.g. District 1 and you will get to page 1 of that district, each district shouldn't be too many pages (district 1 in Monks Risborough is 7 pages) and you can view each page in turn by clicking on Next.

I haven't found a way to search for an address on the 1841, I've tried to put part of the street name / house name in keywords at the bottom of the search but it doesn't exist.

Doing it this way is still quicker than going to the local records office though!

Helen

Helen

Thank you very much for explaining this so well. My great grandfather stayed in a house in Dysart in Fife on the 1881 census and I have found out another Thomson from a different resource( my GG grandfather was a David Thomson) apparently lived in this same street in 1841 but I don't know if it was in the same house!

I will try it tomorrow and let you know how i get on.

Diana

Well, Scotland's quite different. If you have access to Ancestry, you can enter the address (and, say, the parish # =426). I would recommend only using, say, the first 3 letters of the street followed by "*" - e.g., is Rosslyn St going to be spelled with a double s? - Ros* would get them both.

Mostly, one can also use FreeCEN to search 1841 SCT, but Fife is only 75% done, and Dysart is in the incomplete 25%
http://www.freecen.org.uk/coverage-FIF.html#1841

Incidentally, there seem to be a lot of Fife parishes missing on that list, so maybe Fife 1841 has some missing books cf:
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/famrec/list-of-parishes-registration-districts.html

Hi Helen in Bucks and mgnv

Thank you both for your help with this query. I still can't seem to find what I am looking for but as I stay in Fife I think I shall try the local library in Kirkcaldy and see if they have anything with names of people in a certain street.

Many thanks again for your help.

Diana