1881 United Kingdom census

Census of the population of the United Kingdom March 2026 March 2026 Census 1881 1871 1871 United Kingdom census 3 April 1881 1891 1891 United Kingdom census United Kingdom The United Kingdom Census of 1881 recorded the people residing in every household on the night of Sunday 3 April 1881,http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/census-records/#6-when-were-the-censuses-taken Census records 7 March 2018 The National Archives and was the fifth of the UK censuses to include details of household members. Data recorded Details collected include: address, name, relationship to the head of the family, marital status, age at last birthday, gender, occupation, and place of birth. As with earlier censuses, the form asked whether any "lunatics", "imbeciles" or "idiots" lived in the household, causing the Registrar General to observe that: "It is against human nature to expect a mother to admit her young child to be an idiot, however much she may fear this to be true. To acknowledge the fact is to abandon all hope."1801-1901. Office for National Statistics. Archived by The National Archives 28 January 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2017. The total population of England, Wales and Scotland was recorded as 29,707,207.1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/1881-england-wales-and-scotland-census FindMyPast 15 December 2021 Notables named in the census included Winston Churchill, Karl Marx and Charles Darwin.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4065313.stm Pages from 1881 census go online BBC News 3 December 2004 24 November 2012 Indexing The 1881 census was the first UK census to be indexed in its entirety. In the 1980s, in a project that has been characterised as "the largest collection of historical source material to be made available in computerised form",Matthew Woollard Woollard M Schurer K 1881 Census for England and Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man (Enhanced Version) https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=4177 UK Data Service 14 February 2020 10.5255/UKDA-SN-4177-1 9 Nov 2000 and "the first major 'crowd-sourced' exercise in the world",Federation Wiki https://www.familyhistoryfederation.com/wiki Federation of Family History Societies 14 February 2020 the Genealogical Society of Utah began collaborating with the Federation of Family History Societies and the Scottish Association of Family History Societies to produce an index to the 1881 census for England, Wales, Scotland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. In 1994 and 1995 the resulting index was published, county by county, on microfiche, and made available to institutions.Young Stephen Lumas Susan History Of The British 1881 Census Project http://www.ffhs.org.uk/General/Projects/1881.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20050101091436/http://www.ffhs.org.uk/General/Projects/1881.htm dead 2005-01-01 The Federation of Family History Societies 14 February 2020 1995 In 1999 the index was published on a set of 24 CD-ROMs and made available to the general public.National index to 1881 British census https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/831463?availability=Family%20History%20Library FamilySearch 14 February 2020 In August 2001 the index for Scotland was made available online on Scots Origins, then the official data site of the General Register Office for Scotland, and is now available on its successor ScotlandsPeople. In February 2003, the remaining material was made available free of charge on the FamilySearch website.Christian Peter Annal David Census. The Family Historian's Guide 2014 Bloomsbury London 978-1-4729-0293-1 116 Free access to the online index is now available from several other sites, though the Scottish data remains exclusive to ScotlandsPeople. Results Scotland The 1881 census in Scotland was the first census to count the numbers of Gaelic speakers.1881 Census https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/census-records/1881-census National Records of Scotland 11 July 2023 Registration county Population Number of Gaelic speakers % Gaelic speakers Lanark 942,193 11,500 1.2% Edinburgh 388,836 2,145 0.6% Aberdeen 269,047 604 0.2% Forfar 268,653 590 0.2% Renfrew 225,611 4,199 1.9% Ayr 217,630 649 0.3% Fife 172,131 126 0.1% Perth 130,282 14,537 11.2% Stirling 106,883 441 0.4% Inverness 86,389 60,447 70.0% Argyll 80,761 50,113 62.1% Ross and Cromarty 79,467 56,767 71.4% Dumbarton 78,182 1,423 1.8% Dumfries 76,167 17 0.0% Banff 59,783 330 0.6% Roxburgh 52,592 25 0.0% Elgin (or Moray) 45,084 1,273 2.8% Linlithgow 44,005 47 0.1% Kirkcudbright 42,290 11 0.0% Caithness 39,859 4,246 10.7% Haddington 38,510 294 0.8% Wigtown 38,448 28 0.1% Kincardine 35,465 18 0.1% Berwick 35,273 43 0.1% Orkney 32,044 36 0.1% Shetland 29,705 12 0.0% Selkirk 26,346 8 0.0% Clackmannan 24,025 86 0.4% Sutherland 22,376 16,776 75.0% Bute 17,634 3,725 21.1% Peebles 13,688 3 0.0% Nairn 8,847 1,068 12.1% Kinross 7,330 15 0.2% Total 3,735,536 231,602 6.2% Table above according to Return of numbers of gaelic-speaking people of Scotland, under census of 1881. Return of numbers of gaelic-speaking people of Scotland, under census of 1881 http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/PageBrowser?path=Browse/Census%20(by%20date)&active=yes&mno=694&tocstate=expandnew&display=sections&display=tables&display=pagetitles&pageseq=2 histpop 11 July 2023 See also Census in the United Kingdom List of United Kingdom censuses References 1871 UK census 1881 1891 1881 Census Category:April 1881 in the United Kingdom Category:1881 censuses