Transcriptions of pages
Contributed by Devon Researchers

The 1901 Census for England and Wales is now online and you can search the indexes for free.  You can chose to either view a whole census page or alternatively, the transcription of a household - both on a "pay per view basis".  It is cheaper to view a whole census page and of course you might find another relation hiding on the same page.  The census scans that you can pay to download are viewable and printable from various imaging software that you may already have on your system.  But one program that I have found to be very good for viewing these scans is IrfanView - a freeware program that can be downloaded from the Irfanview Website

I have been advised that there is another website called 1901 Leftovers collecting transcriptions of pages from the 1901 Census for the whole of England and Wales... so if you any to share, you might like to contribute.

Registration Districts

Note: Only Underlined Districts have pages from the 1901 Census at the moment.

Notes on Census Scans

The census images that you view can be downloaded and saved to your computer as .tif files.  But I recommend that you save them with the filename that is given, or at least retain this as part of your re-named file.  Why? Well, because this reference actually provides the PRO Reference of RG13, along with the Piece, Folio and Page number for the page - you can work this out from the example here:

Folio numbers only occur every other page - so looking at the page at a later date when you are trying to reference your finds and you might find that yours is missing!  Of course a major disaster if you want to reference your finds properly.  These references are not included in the indexes, so once lost, to retrieve them you would have to pay to view the scan again!  So worth remembering.

I  have complained that these page references should be freely available to us, even in the indexes.  It would help us to determine if we had found the family and should be freely available for people who can search microfiche/film for themselves.  AGREE with me?  Then please Contact 1901 Census, click on Contact Us and finally Feedback.  For those in the UK, you could also write to your local M.P.