Census – Pre-1841 parish household surveys

Parish schoolmasters were responsible for compiling the censuses in 1801, 1811, 1821 and 1831 and no schedules were returned centrally, only statistics. A few of the lists of households compiled by schoolmasters survive in private hands or in the National Records of Scotland or local archives, often with kirk session records, probably because schoolmasters frequently filled the office of session clerk.

Bibliography

Chapman, Colin, Pre-1841 Censuses and Population Listings in the British Isles 4th edition (Lochin Publishing, 1994)

Gibson, Jeremy and Mervyn Medlycott, Local Census Listings 1522-1930: holdings in the British Isles 3rd edition (Federation of Family History Societies, 1997)