1881 Census

Sunday 3rd April 1881

The 1881 form introduced no changes from 1871 and the data collected was as follows;

Address information included more detail than previously.
Houses: A check box indicating if the building was "Inhabited" or "Uninhabited or Building".
Name of each resident on census night.
The relationship of each person to the head of the family, the head usually being the first person listed.
Each person's "Condition" or marital status. Married (M), Unmarried (U), Widowed (W), Divorced (D).
Each person's age at the time of their previous birthday was recorded, with no rounding down.
Sex was indicated by means of the age being entered into a Male/Female column.
Rank, profession or occupation.
Where born; parish and county. If born overseas only the country was recorded.
Whether the person being enumerated was "blind", "deaf or dumb", "imbecile or idiot" or "lunatic".

Free census record forms are available at www.eyfhs.org.uk/census