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Buckinghamshire 1851 Census

• Transcription and conventions used
• Coverage
• Checking
• Grouping
• Abbreviations and codes
• Contact details
• How to buy
• Copyright

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Transcription and conventions used

The Buckinghamshire 1851 census database records 167,095 people in 35,177 household schedules.

The data records include:

• Ordnum - maintains original order within household - not shown
• Surname
• Forenames - Shown as recorded.
• Census District - Town/Parish . Larger areas divided into parts, part numbers for database use only not part of original description of district. See below for description of districts
• Address where given
• Cond - condition, that is, whether married, unmarried or widowed.
• Rel - relationship to head of household - see abbreviations below.
• Sex - M for male, F for female.
• Age - The age in years, or months is suffixed by 'm'
• Occupation
• POB - where born, usually town or parish is given.
• Birth County or Country - county of birth as a Chapman County code
• Disability
• Piece Number - refers to a filmed batch of enumerator's books within the HO107 class at the Public Record Office.
• Folio - refers to a single leaf - a pair of pages within the piece.
• Schedule Number - usually a household

Any word or field which contains an unclear character has a question mark appended at the end.

Brackets, "( )" have been used where a piece of data has been derived from another part of the census date. Typically this would be used to add a surname where there was no surname given and ditto was not used in the original and the surname has been derived from the context of the census.

Coverage

The whole of the pre-1974 county of Buckingham is included in the transcription. The following table lists the places in Buckinghamshire and the number of records for each place, together with the piece number in the Public Record Office class HO107.

Transcription and Checking

The transcription was done by members of the Buckinghamshire Family History Society using a computer program developed by Nigel Underwood & Derek Ayshford.  The Project co-ordinator was Shirley Nicholls who also led the team of inputter and checkers

Method

Transcribed from a filmed copy of the original census return

Quality Assurance

All records were input into a database and printouts from the database were checked back against the film. Any transcription errors were corrected.

Grouping

The group feature of the database should reconstitute a household accurately even when a household crosses onto a new folio.

Abbreviations and Codes

Abbreviations have been used to save space for both Relationship to head of household and county of birth.

Relationship

The following codes have been used to indicate the relationship to the head of the household.

Birth County

The three letter Chapman County Code has been used to both indicate and standardise the county of birth.

How to buy

Bucks FHS have produced a CD containing the complete searchable 1851 Census transcription for Bucks together with demographic analysis of the data. This CD is available for £10 + p&p Details are on the Society's website www.bucksfhs.org.uk or by e-mailing publications@bucksfhs.org.uk or by writing to Bucks FHS Publications, 3 Swallow Lane, Stoke Mandeville,Aylesbury, Bucks HP22 5UW)

Contact details

Buckinghamshire Family History Society. Web: http://www.bucksfhs.org.uk

Copyright, Database Right and disclaimer

© Buckinghamshire Family History Society. The Census is Crown Copyright and the information from the Census is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO). The Buckinghamshire Family History Society is the maker of this database and the owner of the database rights. First published in 2002.

While every care has been taken in the preparation of the index users are advised to view the originals of the Census returns (or facsimiles thereof, e.g. microfilm) and to form their own interpretation. The Buckinghamshire Family History Society accepts no liability for any errors or omissions that remain (although they would welcome notification of alternative interpretations of the census returns by emailing data@bucksfhs.org.uk or writing to 1851 Census Data, Bucks FHS, PO Box 403, Aylesbury, Bucks HP21 7GU )

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