Use this box to enter the details of the address (normally a house or other building) for which you are searching.

Search Tips

If you are not sure of the house name or number, or the house did not have a unique designation at the time of the census, then enter only the street name to get a list of all houses in the street.

If you are not sure of the street name use the wildcards to find similar names. eg: "woodle*" will return "Woodley" and "Woodleigh".

If there is no street name for the address, then enter only the house name or number. eg: "Manor Farm".

Isolated dwellings may have neither house name nor street name but were listed only as "cottage", "caravan", "shed", "stable" etc: To locate these enter only the appropriate word or abbreviation eg "cottage" or "cott", or use the wildcard to find both eg: "cott*".

Words like "street" have common abbreviations and addresses may be recorded eg: as "Church Street" or "Church St" by different enumerators. Omit these words wherever possible and enter just the name eg: "Church".

To search for a particular type of dwelling you can enter just the type eg: "farm","shop","hotel" etc: , but note that this will only list entries where the word you entered appears in the name of the establishment eg: entering "hotel" will locate The Crown Hotel but not The Crown Inn.
Note that the majority of Institutions were enumerated separately. To search for these by name select the Institution Search from the main menu.

Mobile and unusual dwellings eg: houseboats, caravans, stables, sheds etc: , are usually recorded as a description together with some location information eg: "caravan beside the inn", "shed in the farmyard".
Try entering just the description eg: "caravan" in the House and/or Street box.