The Northamptonshire 1841 Census, now also comes as single CD's, so why buy the full county set, if you don't need it. This CD contains the places covered by HO107/801-802, 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.
The CD set allows you to link to indexes to browse the areas and streets
where your ancestors possibly lived, and it covers the places as they appeared
on the 1841 Census fiche (see the list below for the places that are covered by
this set).
This is real primary data. Note that the CDs contain images of the actual
pages of the census enumerators' books. Real original primary research data,
(not transcriptions in text format). What you see is the original hand written
documents. That does involve you reading the pages rather than typing in a name
and expecting the computer to find it. However, you will very quickly become
used to the handwriting styles of the different enumerators, and it is easy to
click through the pages at even low magnification to spot the people you are
looking for.
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. Zoom in and out to read the pages.
Places included on this CD:
Hundreds covered on CD 3: Hamfordshoe, Higham-Ferrers.
Places covered on CD 3 (HO107/801-802): Ashby-Mears, Bozeat, Caldecott,
Chelveston, Earls Barton, Easton-Maudit, Ecton, Great Doddington, Hargrave,
Higham-Ferrers, Higham-Park, Holcot, Irchester, Knuston, Newton-Bromshold,
Raunds, Ringstead, Rushden, Stanwick, Strixton, Sywell, Sywell-Bray Lodge, Wellingborough, Wilby,
Wollaston.
