The United Kingdom Census of 1861 recorded the people residing in every household on the night of 7 April 1861, and was the third of the
UK censuses to include details of household members. The census was taken and recorded everyone living in a household on Sunday 7 April 1861 The 1861 format of the census was identical to the previous 1851 census, despite pressures for 'religious affiliation' questions to be included. This suggestion was rejected at the time.
The total population of England, Wales and Scotland was recorded as 23,085,579.
See also
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Census in the United Kingdom
Coincident full censuses have taken place in the different jurisdictions of the United Kingdom every ten years since 1801, with the exceptions of 1941 (during the Second World War), Ireland in 1921/Northern Ireland in 1931,https://www.nisra.gov. ...
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List of United Kingdom censuses
The census in the United Kingdom is decennial, that is, held every ten years, although there is provision in the Census Act 1920 for a census to take place at intervals of five years or more. There are actually three separate censuses in the Uni ...
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1861
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Events
January–March
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Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses inc ...
April 1861 events