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A census of the population of England and Wales has been carried out every ten years since 1801 (except in 1941). Because of the personal information contained in them, the census returns are closed to public inspection for 100 years.
From 1841 details of all the residents in every house on census night are given, and from 1851 the address, name, age, sex, marital status, relationship within the household, occupation and birthplace are also recorded.
Lancashire’s Online Reference Library gives free access to Ancestry’s Library Edition on Library Computers. This provides access to all the available census records for England, Wales, Scotland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
Currently each main library in the county holds also census returns from 1841-1901 on microfilm for its own area and the Lancashire Record Office holds them for the whole pre-1974 county area. The policy of the Library is to deposit microfiche or microfilm copies of census returns from 1841 to 1901 in libraries throughout the County in the areas to which they relate; please see Census holdings for a detailed guide to place names and the libraries that hold the microform copies. More information on the Census holdings may be found in the ' Guide to Lancashire Local Studies and Family History Collections '(Section 9).
The Online Reference Library is also a useful source for checking out other websites which provide census information. Just do a word search for “census” (NB many of these sites are only accessible through paying a subscription or one off charge).
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