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ages were apparently rounded down in multiples of five years, this was not done consistently but where this has been implemented, relatives aged 26 and 29, will both be shown as aged 25.

30 March 1851

Indexed and online at ancestry.co.uk

7 April 1861

3 April 1881

5 April 1891

31 March 1901

available 2002

2 April 1911

100 year closure has been retrospectively applied

19 June 1921

100 year closure has been retrospectively applied

26 April 1931

Destroyed by fire in WW2

1941

not taken due to WW2

what do census numbers mean ?

Basically it is an indexing system, so if you have the RG, piece folio and page then you, or someone else, will always be able to use the same details to find the same page.

RG refers to year
1841 and 1851 is HO107,
1861 is RG9,
1871 is RG10,
1881 is RG11,
1891 is RG12,
1901 is RG13

PIECE
After the RG, the next part is a census piece. Each enumerator has a pre-printed booklet to fill in. This was around 20 sheets (40 sides). Once filled in these were bound together to make a book of perhaps 200 sheets, this book is the piece. It thus forms a collection of enumerators books for a particular district. This can be books for several census enumerators, covering a certain predefined area.
FOLIO
Sheets in a piece were marked with a folio number on the top right corner of each sheet on the front (not the back) The folio is one sheet within the book, this is not a page (which is one side) but a sheet which is two.
PAGE
In a perfect world each folio would always consist of two sides -pages one and two, but errors mean that sometimes a folio number was missed, messed, overran, fell on the floor, got found later, got eaten by the dog, or just, well something human happened! so sometimes a folio will have three or four pages, or have had something added to it, like an annotation.