You can search the London 1881 census online at
http://www.familysearch.org, or you may even have the LDS 1881 CDs which are transcriptions of the 1881 census.
Now you're given the opportunity to have the original hand written pages of the census for your convenience on CD-ROM. Think of it like this: for just $13.50 you can have the whole of the original pages of the original books for a whole registration district on CD for research to print your own copies!
This set contains the St Mary Paddington Registration District of the 1881 Census, and it contains images of the census books digitised from the microfilm.
The publishers are very proud of the superb quality of the scanned images. They've have worked from really excellent films copied from the first generation films at the PRO, and have then used the very best possible film scanner currently available to digitise the images at a high resolution.
Link to indexes to browse the areas and streets where your ancestors possibly lived, and it covers the whole of the St Mary Paddington Registration District as it appears on the 1881 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 for larger towns, and searchable area indexes. A full list of areas covered are in the PRO Class List.
Registration Districts on the CD (RG11/001-014):
St Mary Paddington (Sub Dist. 1A-1N)
