1851 census:missing towns & villages

[Wilkes_ml]

After spending endless amount of time searching both Ancestry & FMP for Felstead, and blaming the new search facility on both the sites, it only suddenly dawned on me that there may be parishes missing ( doh...it's one thing I keep forgetting!!!)

So just a reminder to others who can not find their Essex ancestors in 1851....

Aythorp-Roothing, Bardfield-Saling, Barnston, Broxted, Chickney, Easton Lodge
Felstead, Great Bardfield, Great Canfield, Great Dunmow, Great Easton, Hatfield-Broad-Oak or Hatfield Regis, High Easter, High Roothing, Leaden-Roothing, Lindsell, Little Bardfield, Little Canfield, Little Easton, Little Dunmow, Margaret Roothing, Morrell-Roothing, Stebbing, Takeley, Thaxted, Tilty, White Roothing are all missing from the 1851 census

[Peter Goodey]

Or in other words, the whole of Dunmow registration district.

For anyone who may be interested, here's how to check what's missing from the census using the National Archives catalogue -

In Advanced Search, enter the following -

Keywords: missing OR wanting Add any other keywords you want eg Essex

Date Range: 1851 to 1851 This is only to distinguish between 1841 and 1851 - you don't really need it for later censuses.

Search within: HO107 (or RG9, RG10, RG11 etc)

In theory this should work but I spotted one doubtful area. A notorious absence from the 1861 census is the Belgrave sub-district of St George Hanover Square. I have a feeling that this was included in the old catalogue marked 'missing' (or 'wanting'). Now it doesn't seem to appear at all. Perhaps I'll ask them.