The Shropshire 1841 Census, now also comes as smaller sets covering just one or
two piece numbers on each CD, so why buy the full county set, if you don't need
it. This set contains the places covered by HO107/926-927, 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 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.
Places on CD 13 (HO107/926-927):
Albrighton, Albrighton Division, Albrighton St Mary (part), Astley, Berwick,
Castle, Clive, Coleham (part), Fitz, Frankwell, Grinshill, Hadnall, Hardwick,
Harlscott (part), Haston, Haughmond, Leaton, Longner, Merrington, Middle (part),
Newton, Preston-Gubbals, St Chad (part), Shotton, Shrewsbury Borough, Shrewsbury
St Chad (part), Shrewsbury St Julian (part), Shrewsbury St Mary (part),
Smethcott, Uffington, Woollascott
