Bere Regis Census every Decade from 1841 - 1901
A National Census has been conducted every decade in the UK since 1801. The records for Bere Regis from 1841 - 1901 are available on this Website. As an example of the sort of information you could get on your family, click here to see records held on the Bullen Family who lived in Honeycombe Cottage in Shitterton during this period...
Click the relevent photograph below to go and discover exactly who was living in the village at the time of each Census...
1841 Census
1851 Census
1861 Census
1871 Census
1881 Census
1891 Census
1901 Census
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A big thank you to The National Archives & Ancestry.co.uk for making these Scans available
If you are interested in how Dorset has changed over the course of the Census period, click the Image below to see the Office for National Statisitics report on Dorset (1801 - 2001)
What about the other years you may ask?
There has been a census every ten years since 1801, excluding 1941. However, only those that date from 1841 are of real value to the family historian. The administration of the early census returns 1801-1831 was the responsibility of the Overseers of the Poor and the clergy.
Most of these early returns were unfortunately destroyed, although in some isolated instances they have been preserved. The census returns for 1841 were the first to be kept and, as far as the general public is concerned, the information is released by the Public Record Office after a hundred years. For example, the public were given access to the 1891 census returns on 1 January 1992.
The census was taken on the following dates:
10 Mar 1801 No longer exists, with a few exceptions 27 May 1811 No longer exists, with a few exceptions 28 May 1821 No longer exists, with a few exceptions 30 May 1831 No longer exists, with a few exceptions 7 June 1841 Read it here 30 March 1851 7 April 1861 2 April 1871 3 April 1881 5 April 1891 31 March 1901 2 April 1911 100 year closure - will be opened 1st January 2012 19 June 1921 100 year closure 26 April 1931 Destroyed during WW2 29 Sept. 1939 WW2 National Registration - 100 year closure 8 April 1951 100 year closure 23 April 1961 100 year closure 25 April 1971 100 year closure 5 April 1981 100 year closure 21 April 1991 100 year closure 29 April 2001 100 year closure
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