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    INSTITUTIONAL CENSUS RECORDS

    Mar 10, 2020 3 minutes

    Census records from a variety of institutions, including asylums, barracks, hospitals, orphanages and workhouses, exist for all of the English, Welsh and Scottish censuses from 1841 to 1911. For the date of the 1851 census, public institutions were given separate enumeration books to record their entries.

    A wide range of census resources is available online. All of the major subscription databases offer coverage of the 1841–1911 censuses with indexes and images for England and Wales and Scottish indexes up and . For full Scottish coverage, including images up to 1911, you should visit . In terms of the free websites, FreeCEN () aims to transcribe the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891 England, Scotland and Wales censuses for online searching, and FamilySearch () has a complete index, with some images available on the site and others through partner subscription websites.

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