Census 1871 England

The 1871 United Kingdom Census included enumerations for England, Wales, the Isle of Man, and the Channel islands. The 1871 England census contains information about a household’s occupants including birthplaces, occupations, and health.

The 1871 census for England was taken on the night of 2 April 1871.

The information requested on the census included:

• Address (name of the street, avenue, or road; house number)
• Occupant (name of each person who spent the night in the house; their birthplace and relationship to head of family)
• Residence (whether home was inhabited; number of rooms occupied)
• Personal (sex, age, marital status)
• Occupation (whether employer, employee, or neither)
• Health (whether blind, deaf, dumb, imbecile, idiot, or lunatic)

Abbreviations in the 1871 Census are as shown:

• WI = used wife
• DA = daughter
• GD = granddaughter
• GS = grandson
• HD = head
• Lgr = lodger
• M = married
• U = unmarried
• NP = nephew
• NC = niece
• SCH = scholar
• Sis = sister
• SO = son
• SV or Ser = servant
• SL or SOLW = son-in-law (this could mean stepson, or something different than the modern day usage)
• AG LAB = agricultural labourer
• FRMR = farmer