IMPORTANT !

Please note: Censuses are organised by Registration Districts, which do not necessarily correspond with county boundaries. A set of census records for a Registration District may omit some places within a county, and/or include places from adjacent counties. The CDs contain the records of Registration Districts.

We are very proud of the quality of the scanned images. We have worked from films copied from the first generation films at the PRO, and have then used the very best possible film scanner currently available to digitise the images at a high resolution. Using Adobe Acrobat Reader you can zoom in and in to read the pages. You really don't have to squint to read the pages. Zoom right in without noticeable loss of detail.. You can print first class copies of any page for use in your family history documents.

These are very old original hand written records. The vast majority of pages are readable, but there may be some pages that are illegible due to faded ink and the techniques used to film the records. Our scanning is done from films and we apply enhancement techniques to obtain the best possible results. When you order the census CDs, you accept that some pages may be difficult to read or illegible.

This is real primary data. Note that the CDs contain images of the actual pages of the census enumerators' books. Real original primary research data. (Not transcriptions in text format). What you see is the original hand written documents. That does involve you reading the pages rather than typing in a name and expecting the computer to find it. However, you will very quickly become used to the handwriting styles of the different enumerators, and it is easy to click through the pages at even low magnification to spot the people you are looking for.

Reproduced by permission of the National Archives.

THIS IS A HUGE 23 CD SET

Not only does the county have a large population, but the reason for so many CDs in the set is that we have scanned it in grey scale to a very high quality indeed to overcome the problems typically associated with the faded 1841 census pages. We can't promise that every single page will be legible (invisible ink is impossible to scan) but we can promise that the pages will be more readable than on the original films that you may have seen in the past!

We make no apologies for the price of our 1841 census CDs. We work UP to a quality rather than down to a price, and we have gained the reputation of being the best at scanning these old 1841 census documents.

In addition to the full county set above, we have made parts of the Staffordshire 1841 census available on individual CDs, each containing a range of census pieces.

If you do not need the whole county, then this is the opportunity for you to buy smaller parts at a more affordable price for the districts in which you have interest.

The census is not necessarily organised by logical geographical districts. Please refer to the places included (by clicking on its link) or the master index file to see which places are included on which CD. Be aware that some places occasionally occur on more than one CD. (We have not divided the CDs into geographical areas - we have kept strictly to the HO classifications as per the original census references).

For each CD listed below there is a button where you can click to see its contents.

ALL OF THE 1841 CENSUS CDs LISTED BELOW ARE AVAILABLE NOW

FOR THE FULL COUNTY SET SEE ABOVE

HO107/973

HO107/974-975

HO107/976-977

HO107/978-979

HO107/980-981

HO107/982

HO107/983-984

HO107/985-986

HO107/987-988

HO107/989-990

HO107/991

HO107/992

HO107/993-994

HO107/995

HO107/996

HO107/997

HO107/998

HO107/1000-1001

HO107/1002-1004

HO107/1005-1006

HO107/1007-1009

HO107/1010

In addition to the full county set above, we have made parts of the Staffordshire 1871 census available on individual CDs, each containing a range of census pieces.

If you do not need the whole county, then this is the opportunity for you to buy smaller parts at a more affordable price for the districts in which you have interest.

For each CD listed below there is a button where you can click to see its contents.

ALL OF THE 1871 CENSUS CDs LISTED BELOW ARE AVAILABLE NOW

FOR THE FULL COUNTY SET SEE ABOVE

Stafford, Stone & Newcastle under Lyme Registration Districts

RG10/2814-2837

Wolstanton Registration District.

RG10/2838-2854

Stoke upon Trent Registration District.

RG10/2855-2877

Leek, Cheadle & Uttoxeter Registration Districts

RG10/2878-2895

Burton on Trent and Tamworth Registration Districts.

RG10/2896-2912

Lichfield and Penkridge Registration Districts.

RG10/2913-2926

2 CD set

Wolverhampton Registration District

RG10/2927-2953

Walsall Registration District

RG10/2954-2967

2 CD set

West Bromwich Registration District

RG10/2968-2991

2 CD Set

Dudley Registration District