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Cornwall 1851 Census Index

• 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 Cornwall 1851 census database records 356,333 people grouped in 73,186 schedules.

The data records includes:

• Parish - parishes within Cornwall have been standardised.
• Town - not always given.
• Piece Number - refers to a filmed batch of enumerator's books within the HO107 class at the Public Record Office.
• Reg District - usually a single letter - not shown.
• Subdist - name of sub-district where enumerated - not shown.
• Folio - refers to a single leaf - a pair of pages within the piece.
• Page - the page of the census enumerator's book.
• Schedule - the number of the schedule in the database - not shown.
• Household - identifies the household that is enumerated.
• Address - abode where enumerated
• Forenames - abbreviated forenames have been expanded where obvious, for example, Hy to Henry – Wm or Wllm to William, etc.
• Surname - also see alternative surname
• Rel - relationship to head of household - see abbreviations below.
• Cond - condition, that is, whether married, unmarried or widowed.
• Age - The age in years, or months is suffixed by 'm'
• Months - y indicates age in years, m indicates age in months - not shown.
• Sex - M for male, F for female.
• Occupation
• POB - where born, usually town or parish is given.
• Birth county - county of birth as a Chapman County code, CON indicates Cornwall and DEV indicates Devon.
• Birth country - country of birth if given.
• Disability - whether blind, or deaf and dumb.
• Alternate Surname - this field is used to show an alternative deduced from another source or the second part of a hyphenated name or other suggested alternative.

Note: Some other fields are included in the database but duplicate information in other fields. Some fields are not shown where inappropriate to this database.

This data is based on the work done by Ray WOODBINE - Member Number 00003 of Cornwall FHS.

Any field which contains a suspect entry has a space and a question mark appended at the end. This indicates uncertainty about the data even after checking with the original, e.g. Thomasoin ?

Alternatives where deduced from other sources or suggested possible alternatives are give in square brackets e.g. John Heneric [Henry] ?

Coverage

About half of the parishes are covered, these are mainly in the eastern half of the county roughly on a line drawn North-South through St Austell.

The following table shows the number of entries for each parish and the number of the piece or pieces with the Public Record Office class HO107:

Checking

The data has been checked by Ray WOODBINE, the transcriber.

Grouping

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

Abbreviations and Codes

The 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.

Contact details

Please see the Cornwall Family History Society web site, www.cornwallfhs.com, for more information about this database.

How to buy

Please see the Society web site for details of how to purchase volumes from the 1851 census transcript and index.

Copyright and disclaimer

© Trustees of the Cornwall Family History Society and others to be defined. The Census is Crown Copyright and the information from the Census is reproduced with the permissi on of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).

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 Cornwall 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.)

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