Now available for you to own, your very own set of the Dorset 1861 Census, which comes as a set of 3 CDs. The CDs contain high quality images of the census books digitised from the microfilm, and where missing pages or poor images have been detected additional images taken from the books have been added.
Please note: Censuses are organised by Registration Districts, which DO NOT necessarily correspond with county boundaries. A set of census records for a Registration District may omit some places within a county, and/or include places from adjacent counties.
Link to street indexes to browse the areas and streets where your ancestors possibly lived. The CD set covers the whole of Dorset as it appears on the 1861 Census fiche. Features of the CD set are: the ability to magnify an area to see further detail, print the current page, alphabetic street index, and searchable area indexes.
Registration Districts on CD 1 (RG9/1325-1344):
Shaftesbury, Sturminster, Blandford, Wimborne, Poole, Wareham
Registration Districts on CD 2 (RG9/1345-1361):
Wareham, Weymouth, Dorchester, Sherborne
Registration Districts on CD 3 (RG9/1362-1369):
Beaminster, Bridport, Master Index
Please read carefully: If the CDs are for use in a Society or Public Library you will need a library licence, this price is five times the full retail price. You will then be issued with a library certificate for the product. The publishers terms do not allow users to publish their products or extracts on the internet. Also terms also exclude using these products to provide a lookup service, or selling disks of sets individually.
