Family Historian User Group

The Dorset OPC web site has an 1811 census for Whitchurch Canonicorum, in which I've found what might be some ancestors of mine. I only stumbled across this census by accident.

http://www.opcdorset.com/WhCanonicorumF ... icorum.htm

Does anyone know anything about these earlier local census, why they were taken, who by, are there any records of what ones exist etc? They could be a useful resource, particularly if available online.

David

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There are quite a lot of them, although the information recorded varies from numbers only to something akin to the 1841 census.

Try Googling 'pre-1841 census' for a selection of what is available.

Gerry