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Locating by address on Censuses

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Alison

Alison Report 18 Jul 2006 20:06

I have access to 1841-1901 censuses via Ancestry.com but cannot see any way of accessing them by address rather than individual names. On the 1901 census you can access by address. Does anyone know how I can do this for earlier censuses? There are people I cannot find by name but who I have addresses for around the times of some of the censuses and it might come up with something. Can it be done using something other than 'Ancestry' perhaps?

Heather

Heather Report 18 Jul 2006 20:08

You can do that on the 1881 too. Only other thing to do is enter the area only and then trawl street by street - not a lot of fun if its London but ok if its a small village.

Alison

Alison Report 18 Jul 2006 20:13

Thanks - yes, they are all in heavily populated parts of London and I really wanted 1841-61 but will have a look anyway.

The Ego

The Ego Report 18 Jul 2006 20:19

how do you do the address search on 1901?

Alison

Alison Report 18 Jul 2006 20:40

Not sure how you'd do it via Genes Reunited but if you go to 1901censusonline.com and select the address search it is quite easy.

Heather

Heather Report 18 Jul 2006 20:54

Ego, Merry tells you have to do this on the other thread - Ill bump it up. Basically you use the free look up bit on the TNA 1901 on here and then click to get the reference which you then use on your ancestry!

Merry

Merry Report 18 Jul 2006 21:05

Also you can use the 1837online address search for 1861 and 1891 to help you slightly short-circuit the trawling on ancestry for those years.....the 1837online address search tells you the ecclesiastical parish and the schedule number......you then need to trawl the district description pages on Ancestry to find the correct ecclesiastical district (usually covers about three or four enumeration districts). When you have locaed which districts cover the right ecclesiastical district, you only need to check the one schedule number for each district, rather than trawl the whole 30-60odd pages. Merry

Glen In Tinsel Knickers

Glen In Tinsel Knickers Report 18 Jul 2006 21:57

As Heather says by trawling it is possible,but for London it's a major pain in the bum,you can narrow it down a little bit by checking which district you need at the top of the screen with a census image showing,but it can go awry with the London districts,give me a Norfolk village and i can do it,but London is too awkward. Glen