Series details HO 129

Context

HO Records created or inherited by the Home Office, Ministry of Home Security, and related bodies
	Division within HO General registers, registered papers, warrant and entry books and correspondence; and records of General and E Departments, and wartime departments (First World War)

Title

Home Office: Ecclesiastical Census Returns

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Former reference (Department)

Former reference (PRO)

Creator names

Covering dates

1851

Physical description

623 bundle(s)

Dimensions

Map scale number

Physical condition

Note

Access conditions

Available in microform only unless otherwise stated

Restrictions on use

Immediate source of acquisition

Custodial history

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Appraisal/destruction information

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Location of originals

Copies information

Held by

The National Archives, Kew

Content
Scope and content	Ecclesiastical census returns of churches and chapels, endowments, sittings, estimated attendances on 30 March 1851 and average numbers during the preceding twelve months. In a few cases the papers include returns of the educational census, 1851.
Arrangement
Publication note	To discover in which district a place not mentioned by name in this list occurs, consult the printed index to the Population Returns, 1851, in which the number of the registration district, given in the fifth column, is also the number of the bundle e.g. the reference for Abbas Combe is HO 129/320
Unpublished finding aids
Related material	See also the Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys: RG
Separated material