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- When you search the 1861 Census Record, we will search all of our historical 1861 Census data for names that match your search criteria.
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1861 census
The 1861 census for England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday the 7th April 1861.
The total population was declared to be 20,066,000.
In London the first horse drawn trams began appearing on the streets. It is also the year the book Mrs Beeton’s Household Management was published as a guide to running a Victorian household. It gave advice on childcare, managing servants and also contained over 900 recipes. You can see Isabella Beeton living with her husband Samuel, a publisher, in Hatch End in 1861.
