UK Census
The National Archives website describes the Census that have been made in the UK every 10 years over the period
1801 until 2011.
1891 Census
The description of the 1891 census from tge National Archives website:
A question was introduced about the number of rooms in each household in response to fears of overcrowding in industrial cities.
For the first time, women census takers were employed. The requirements for a good census taker have not changed much in
over 150 years: “…he must not be infirm; he must be temperate, orderly and respectable, and such a person has to conduct himself
with strict propriety…”
This was the first census to ask a question about the Welsh language in Wales.
Many babies less than a year old were recorded as being able to speak Welsh!
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The 1891 Census is a particuarly interesting one for Belchamp Walter as it shows who lived where at the time
of great changes. The Farmers Strike (1893) and then the 1st World War coming 23 years later.