USEFUL INFORMATION FOR GENEALOGISTS

CENSUS DATES IN THE UK (from 1801 - 2001)
09.03.1801 26.05.1811 27.05.1821 28.05.1831
06.06.1841 30.03.1851 07.04.1861 02.04.1871
03.04.1881 05.04.1891 31.03.1901 02.04.1911
19.06.1921 26.04.1931 08.04.1951 23.04.1961
25.04.1971 05.04.1981 21.04.1991 29.04.2001
There was no census in 1941 because of WW II, the 1931 census is believed to have been destroyed by enemy action during WW II and the next census to be released will be the 1901 census and will be available to the public from January 2002 when the hundred year rule expires. 

 

Chapman County Codes for England (pre 1974)

BDF Bedfordshire HRT Hertfordshire SOM Somerset
BRK Berkshire HUN Huntingdonshire STS Staffordshire
BKM Buckinghamshire KEN Kent SFK Suffolk
CAM Cambridgeshire LAN Lancashire SRY Surrey
CHS Cheshire LEC Leicestershire SSX Sussex
CON Cornwall LIN Lincolnshire WAR Warwickshire
CUL Cumberland LND London WES Westmorland
DBY Derbyshire MDX Middlesex WIL Wiltshire
DEV Devonshire NFK Norfolk WOR Worcestershire
DOR Dorset NTH Northamptonshire YKS Yorkshire

DUR Durham

NBL Northumberland ERY East Riding YKS
ESS Essex NTT Nottinghamshire WRY West Riding YKS
GLS Gloucestershire OXF Oxfordshire NRY North Riding YKS
HAM Hampshire RUT Rutland IOW Isle Of Wight
HEF Herefordshire SAL Shropshire IOM Isle Of Man