FreeCEN England Summary
plus the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man
and England & Wales Shipping
We added 125,287 England records to the FreeCEN database on 15 Dec 2017
Last updated:
18 Dec 2017
The FreeCEN project began in 1999 with the aim of making high quality transcriptions of the 19th century England, Wales and Scotland censuses freely available in a searchable database.
FreeCEN is under the trusteeship of Free UK Genealogy which also includes the FreeBMD and FreeREG projects — all these run on a 100% volunteer basis. Many thousands of volunteers from all over the world have contributed their time and efforts to make the census records freely available.
If you have a general enquiry about the FreeCEN project, or would like to volunteer as a transcriber, please contact Brenda Bowers.
England summary
| COUNTY | RECORDS ONLINE for | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name & site | Current Coord. | 1841 Pop (est.) | 1841 | 1851 | 1861 | 1871 | 1881 | 1891 |
| Records online | 2,720,426 | 1,490,497 | 9,953,423 | 4,825,314 | 326,187 | 7,652,039 | ||
| England pop (est.) | 14,860,800 | 16,764,500 | 19,891,600 | 21,299,700 | 24,396,900 | 27,231,100 | ||
| Percentage online (est.) | 18.3 | 8.9 | 50.0 | 22.7 | 1.3 | 28.1 | ||
| Total England &c records online | 26,967,886 | |||||||
| Bedfordshire | Brenda Bowers | 107,900 | 33,417 | 165,885 | ||||
| Berkshire | Brenda Bowers | 161,147 | 17,748 | 4,726 | 7,347 | |||
| Buckinghamshire | Brenda Bowers | 156,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 114,999 | ||
| Cambridgeshire | Bev Howlett | 164,500 | 18,666 | 76,418 | ||||
| Channel Islands | Brenda Bowers | 76,100 | 50,927 | 20,660 | ||||
| Cheshire | Brenda Bowers | 395,700 | 0 | 0 | 29,390 | 21,567 | ||
| Cornwall | 341,300 | 340,901 | 354,744 | 362,111 | 358,040 | 326,187 | 318,637 | |
| County Durham | Carol Barber | 324,300 | 531,261 | 703,905 | 47,458 | |||
| Cumberland | Carol Barber | 178,000 | 156,127 | 154,253 | ||||
| Derbyshire | Brenda Bowers | 272,200 | 121,085 | 317,722 | ||||
| Devon | Brenda Bowers | 533,500 | 531,680 | 193,322 | 580,295 | 632,473 | ||
| Dorset | Carol Barber | 175,000 | 56,489 | 0 | 46,737 | 30,050 | 54,773 | |
| Essex | Brenda Bowers | 345,000 | 158,570 | 138,353 | ||||
| Gloucestershire | Chris Mahoney | 431,400 | 436,687 | |||||
| Gloucestershire | Brenda Bowers | 83,457 | 0 | 93,125 | ||||
| Hampshire | David Philpot | 355,000 | 432,888 | 542,644 | ||||
| Herefordshire | Jane Earles | 113,900 | 0 | 0 | 126,614 | 0 | ||
| Hertfordshire | Brenda Bowers | 157,200 | 0 | 34,223 | 0 | 29,585 | 21,900 | |
| Huntingdonshire | Brenda Bowers | 58,500 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9,481 | 50,294 | |
| Isle of Man | Brenda Bowers | 48,000 | 6,660 | |||||
| Kent | Rebekah House | 548,300 | 57,794 | 49,220 | ||||
| Kent | Jen Sheehan | 270,930 | ||||||
| Lancashire 1841 | Brenda Bowers | 1,667,000 | 0 | |||||
| Lancashire | Neil Southern | 2,200,295 | 331,447 | |||||
| Leicestershire | John Toplis | 215,900 | 241,995 | 267,663 | 64,689 | |||
| Lincolnshire | Michael Borrill | 362,600 | 116,372 | 400,038 | 425,613 | 458,959 | ||
| London 1891 (pt) | Barbara Pearce | 3,254,300 (in 1871) |
N/A | 4,751 | 320,226 | |||
| London | Brenda Bowers | |||||||
| Middlesex | Ian Cameron | 1,576,600 | 0 | 84,006 | 86,217 | |||
| Middlesex | Brenda Bowers | 6,960 | ||||||
| Norfolk | Bev Howlett | 412,700 | 423,431 | 429,781 | 448,613 | |||
| Northamptonshire | Brenda Bowers | 199,200 | 0 | 0 | 16,190 | |||
| Northumberland | Carol Barber | 250,300 | 331,794 | |||||
| Nottinghamshire | Brenda Bowers | 249,900 | 171,778 | 254,469 | 322,166 | 116,408 | 497,347 | |
| Oxfordshire | Brenda Bowers | 161,600 | 0 | 0 | 2,669 | 187,954 | ||
| Rutland | Michael Borrill | 21,300 | 23,142 | 3,662 | 7,881 | |||
| Shipping (England & Wales) | [2] 99,200 | 41,443 | ||||||
| Shropshire | Brenda Bowers | 239,000 | 0 | 15,550 | 19,086 | 6,469 | ||
| Somerset | Geoff Jarvis | 436,000 | 414,123 | 328,748 | 461,835 | 286,514 | 0 | 174,207 |
| Staffordshire (North) | Ian Cameron | 510,500 | 0 | 511,033 | 144,045 | |||
| Staffordshire (South) | Dave Dudley | |||||||
| Suffolk | Bev Howlett | 315,100 | 119,454 | 197,919 | ||||
| Surrey | Bev Howlett | 582,700 | 69,928 | 23,306 | ||||
| Sussex | Simon & Chris Brickell | 299,800 | 310,083 | 358,160 | 420,025 | 553,971 | ||
| Warwickshire | Brenda Bowers | 401,700 | 397,684 | 256,303 | 0 | 798,758 | ||
| Westmorland | Carol Barber | 56,500 | 60,816 | 65,135 | 0 | |||
| Wiltshire | Brenda Bowers | 258,700 | 247,752 | 14,908 | 84,588 | 197,358 | 63,334 | |
| Worcestershire | Brenda Bowers | 233,300 | 0 | 24,648 | 0 | 39,250 | ||
| Yorkshire (East Riding) | Carol Barber | 1,591,500 | 213,933 | 140,309 | 0 | |||
| Yorkshire (North Riding) | Carol Barber | 142,026 | 141,652 | 3,734 | ||||
| Yorkshire (West Riding) | Carol Barber | 1,043,912 | 607,151 | 399,795 | ||||
Footnotes
- All population estimates are taken from, or calculated from, the digitised Census Reports as seen on online historical population reports.
- This figure for Shipping (Navy plus Merchant Seamen) is for the whole of Great Britain and also includes prisoners aboard the convict hulks stationed in the River Medway, Chatham. A further 89,000 Army personnel were enumerated abroad or in Ireland.