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Details collected include: address, name, relationship to the head of the family, marital status, age at last birthday, gender, occupation, and place of birth. As with earlier censuses, the form asked whether any "lunatics", "imbeciles" or "idiots" lived in the household, causing the
Registrar
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The 1881 census was the first UK census to be indexed in its entirety. In the 1980s, in a project that has been characterised as "the largest collection of historical source material to be made available in computerised form", and "the first major 'crowd-sourced' exercise in the world", the
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General to observe that: "It is against human nature to expect a mother to admit her young child to be an idiot, however much she may fear this to be true. To acknowledge the fact is to abandon all hope."
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1171:
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website. Free access to the online index is now available from several other sites, though the
Scottish data remains exclusive to ScotlandsPeople.
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162:, and made available to institutions. In 1999 the index was published on a set of 24 CD-ROMs and made available to the general public.
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1245:
1412:
132:
945:
837:
1110:
1009:
975:
166:
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In August 2001 the index for
Scotland was made available online on Scots Origins, then the official data site of the
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recorded the people residing in every household on the night of Sunday 3 April 1881, and was the fifth of the
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Office for
National Statistics. Archived by The National Archives 28 January 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
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1176:
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887:"1881 Census for England and Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man (Enhanced Version)"
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1005:
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173:. In February 2003, the remaining material was made available free of charge on the
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574:
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191:
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The total population of
England, Wales and Scotland was recorded as 29,707,207.
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1051:"Return of numbers of gaelic-speaking people of Scotland, under census of 1881"
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686:
414:
115:
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Return of numbers of gaelic-speaking people of
Scotland, under census of 1881
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430:
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590:
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494:
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222:
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946:"History Of The British 1881 Census Project"
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950:The Federation of Family History Societies
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91:to include details of household members.
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1000:Christian, Peter; Annal, David (2014).
976:"National index to 1881 British census"
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924:Federation of Family History Societies
885:Woollard, M; Schurer, K (9 Nov 2000).
133:Federation of Family History Societies
106:Notables named in the census included
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944:Young, Stephen; Lumas, Susan (1995).
1002:Census. The Family Historian's Guide
167:General Register Office for Scotland
1004:. London: Bloomsbury. p. 116.
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201:Registration county
67:General information
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1382:Beyond 2011
1329:Census acts
1246:Unpublished
985:14 February
960:14 February
929:14 February
904:14 February
870:24 November
844:15 December
655:Clackmannan
153:Isle of Man
89:UK censuses
33:Census 1881
1407:Categories
825:1801-1901.
790:References
671:Sutherland
575:Kincardine
543:Haddington
495:Linlithgow
210:Number of
206:Population
194:speakers.
160:microfiche
1150:Published
1085:UK census
753:3,735,536
527:Caithness
415:Dumbarton
367:Inverness
239:Edinburgh
217:speakers
112:Karl Marx
1370:See also
1142:Censuses
864:BBC News
773:See also
623:Shetland
463:Roxburgh
431:Dumfries
351:Stirling
255:Aberdeen
215:% Gaelic
186:Scotland
151:and the
145:Scotland
122:Indexing
1224:Ireland
1182:Ireland
1060:11 July
1055:histpop
1035:11 July
810:7 March
756:231,602
735:Kinross
703:Peebles
639:Selkirk
591:Berwick
559:Wigtown
355:106,883
339:130,282
323:172,131
307:217,630
291:225,611
287:Renfrew
275:268,653
259:269,047
243:388,836
227:942,193
181:Results
137:England
72:Country
1308:Future
1008:
729:12.1%
707:13,688
697:21.1%
691:17,634
681:75.0%
678:16,776
675:22,376
659:24,025
643:26,346
627:29,705
611:32,044
607:Orkney
595:35,273
579:35,465
563:38,448
547:38,510
537:10.7%
531:39,859
515:42,290
499:44,005
483:45,084
467:52,592
451:59,783
435:76,167
419:78,182
409:71.4%
406:56,767
403:79,467
393:62.1%
390:50,113
387:80,761
383:Argyll
377:70.0%
374:60,447
371:86,389
345:11.2%
342:14,537
271:Forfar
230:11,500
223:Lanark
192:Gaelic
147:, the
1314:2031
1089:1881
759:6.2%
750:Total
745:0.2%
739:7,330
726:1,068
723:8,847
719:Nairn
713:0.0%
694:3,725
665:0.4%
649:0.0%
633:0.0%
617:0.1%
601:0.1%
585:0.1%
569:0.1%
553:0.8%
534:4,246
521:0.0%
505:0.1%
489:2.8%
486:1,273
473:0.0%
457:0.6%
447:Banff
441:0.0%
425:1.8%
422:1,423
361:0.4%
335:Perth
329:0.1%
313:0.3%
297:1.9%
294:4,199
281:0.2%
265:0.2%
249:0.6%
246:2,145
233:1.2%
141:Wales
1361:2000
1356:1991
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1336:1800
1299:2021
1294:2011
1289:2001
1284:1991
1279:1981
1274:1971
1269:1966
1264:1961
1259:1951
1254:1931
1236:1939
1231:1921
1219:1911
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1204:1881
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1194:1861
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1177:1841
1172:1831
1167:1821
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1006:ISBN
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872:2012
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687:Bute
319:Fife
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