Wrexham Abbot & Wrexham Regis in the 1881 British Census

The 1881 census was taken after two acts of parliament received royal assent on 7 September 1880, one relating to England and Wales and the Islands, and the other relating to Scotland.The only published information in regard to the administration of a Scottish census, dates from 1851, prior to the establishment of the Scottish Register Office in 1854.In the case of England and Wales, some 34,711 enumerators were hired to distribute schedules to each household or tenement (during the week of 28 March 1881) and to collect those completed schedules , on either 4 or 5 April. The enumerators then had to enter the recorded details on the schedules into their enumeration books, and all within six days ‘in strict conformity with the rules given therein’. In 1987, the Genealogical Society of Utah (GSU) was granted a licence by her Majesty’s Stationary Office (HMSO) to fully transcribe and index the 1881 Census of England and Wales. The GSU was founded in 1894 by the Church of Latter Day Saints, and its purpose was to collect genealogical data, and make it available to the public. The result of the GSU’s work was a fully machine-readable transcript of the census for England and Wales [initially Scotland nor Ireland were not included], and was published on CD-ROM in 1999. These extracts were faithfully transcribed from those images.