Which (if any) UK census was taken at Easter?

It sounds like a pub quiz question! I’m sure someone told me one of them was.

English Census data is bread and butter to the genealogist. It shows family groupings at 10 year intervals.

So off to Google and here are the census dates from Wiki:

1801 – Tuesday, 10 March
1811 – Monday, 27 May
1821 – Monday, 28 May
1831 – Monday, 30 May
1841 – Sunday, 6 June
1851 – Sunday, 30 March
1861 – Sunday, 7 April
1871 – Sunday, 2 April
1881 – Sunday, 3 April
1891 – Sunday, 5 April
1901 – Sunday, 31 March
1911 – Sunday, 2 April

Of course the censuses before 1841 have very limited usefulness and availability although I did find one for Ossett in 1821 and it helped enormously with by Hetherington ancestors.

So back to Google for Easter dates

1801 – April 5th
1811 – April 14th
1821 – April 22nd
1831 – April 3rd
1841 – April 11th
1851 – April 20th
1861 – March 31st
1871 – April 9th
1881 – April 17th
1891 – March 29th
1901 – April 7th
1911 – April 16th

So – none of them. Now who gave me that duff information…

 

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Posted by andymick on February 10, 2012

https://andymick.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/which-if-any-uk-census-was-taken-at-easter/