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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.
The British Newspaper Archive
Read about historical events at the time they were happening. Perhaps you'll discover your ancestor in their local newspaper?
