Counties available on the site at launch
Please find below a full list of the 36 counties available at launch. Please see our separate post on the rollout dates of the remaining counties.
If you have not already seen it, we have already posted an article on the order of scanning and rollout of the counties, click below to read it:
http://blog.1911census.co.uk/2008/12/the-order-of-scanning-and-our-unintentional-northsouth-divide/
Counties available at launch:
- Bedfordshire
- Berkshire
- Buckinghamshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Cheshire
- Cornwall
- Derbyshire
- Devonshire
- Dorsetshire
- Essex
- Gloucestershire
- Hampshire
- Herefordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Huntingdonshire
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- London
- Middlesex
- Norfolk
- Northamptonshire
- Nottinghamshire
- Oxfordshire
- Rutlandshire
- Shropshire
- Somersetshire
- Staffordshire
- Suffolk
- Surrey
- Sussex
- Warwickshire
- Wiltshire
- Worcestershire
- Yorkshire West Riding
Counties not available for launch:
England:
- Durham
- Cumberland
- Northumberland
- Westmorland
- Yorkshire – East Riding and North Riding
Wales:
- Anglesey
- Brecknockshire
- Carnarvonshire
- Cardiganshire
- Carmarthenshire
- Denbighshire
- Flintshire
- Glamorgan
- Merionethshire
- Montgomeryshire
- Monmouthshire
- Pembrokeshire
- Radnorshire
Other:
- Isle of Man
- Channel Islands
- Royal Navy
- Military Establishments
January 13th, 2009 at 9:30 am
What a cheek. Some blatent English favouritism (whether direct or indirect) in selction of counties available. When are you going to include the Welsh counties?
January 13th, 2009 at 11:50 am
I would also like to know when the Welsh counties will be included. Is it possible for you to provide a better idea of when they will be available to search, e.g. by April 2009 or by January 2010?
It is a great shame that no Welsh counties are available to search as all my ancestors are Welsh!
January 13th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Why no Cumbria? (Cumberland)
January 13th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
What about the Irish ??
1911 England was still governing then or was no census taken in Ireland ??
January 13th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
No Co. Durham and Northumberland - -the only counties I am interested in.
Only after I bought some credits did I discover these two have to wait!!
The money is irrelevant- -but it should have been publicised this morning.
January 13th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
you do not yet show my uncle frank wells born 1879 he lived at 52 pritchard road now bethnal green then in haggerston stated his birth place as st. lukes on account he was born in hoxton died at warton house shoreditch now bethnal green in 1952 warton house is now part of the boundary estate all his family had married and moved out of prichard road in the period 1911
January 13th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
what good is a census that does not show the east end
January 13th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
When is the site going to be available again ?? This is a much needed and awaited site for millions and will be an important vehicle for people wanting to find family connections so get it up and running A.S.A.P
January 14th, 2009 at 2:04 am
Though I am pleased that we are able to search the 1911 census so soon there is nothing for the Welsh until a later date - the English have been well catered for & given the usual priority over everyone else. I think that the areas released should have been more balanced.
January 14th, 2009 at 11:45 am
While I was happy to see the census up and running, the lack of North and East Yorkshire has meant that 50% of those I am searching for are not available.
If I had realised this, I would have waited a while before joining, but at least we havent had to wait until 2011!!.
January 14th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
You can please some people some of the time……but you can`t please all of the people all of the time !!!!!!!!!!!!!
A happy bunny …living in wales with english and welsh ancestors.!
January 15th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Once again favouratism is rampant, towards the South of England. The North East of England has been totally ignored. No trace of Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire (etc) but everywhere else in England is included. When are you going to include these Northern English counties??
January 16th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
When will Cumberland and Northumberland be available?
We have bought credits and none of our ancestors are accessible. !!!!
Why was it not publicised that all of England except the north would be available?
The world does not revolve around London and the South you know - there is life north of Manchester, and a superior brand it is too! A bit of common sense is called for on these matters - better wait a bit longer before launch than upset half the country
January 16th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
K. Creighton, the 1911 Irish Census has been released for the counties of Antrim, Down, Dublin and Kerry - for free.
The link is: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/.
January 19th, 2009 at 11:43 am
I know you have a huge amount of work and it is so exciting that 1911 census is available so soon, but as Durham and N Yorks are the Counties I would like to see, have you a more defined idea - Spring or Summer perhaps? - of when they might be available within 2009. Thank you
January 19th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Springy is more likely than Summery for the remaining English counties but beyond that we can’t be more precise - we are looking into exactly this question at the moment.
January 19th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I would just like to know roughly when the Eat Riding of Yorkshire 1911 census will be available.
January 19th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Why wont they give ma a strsight answer to why my Father who most certainly lived in Longton Stoke on Trent is not on the census
January 20th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
You should either have waited until everything was available or made it very clear what you did or did not cover before getting people to buy credits, which will now probably expire before you make Durham (which is all I’m really interested in) becomes available.
I’m sure this would not be right under trading standards.
January 20th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
iantester says - “Springy is more likely than Summery for the remaining English counties but beyond that we can’t be more precise - we are looking into exactly this question at the moment”.
I say - you just don’t care do you. You and your local area (London and the South no doubt) are OK, so you do not care less about anyone else. Your behaviour and parochialism is pathetic. You should be ashamed
January 21st, 2009 at 9:51 am
As someone who only has ancestors from Durham and Northumberland, Cumberland and North Yorkshire, and still live in the area myself I am very disappointed that these counties have to wait. The launch was heralded on all the local news stations with great fanfare, but no mention that our area was missed for now. Also I feel that a lack of a date for when these counties will be included is a poor excuse. This far through a major digitising project, you should have a fair idea of how long it should take. As you say yourselves you’ve already done 83%, how long can the other 17% take?
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Has anyone had difficult searching for German or Austrian ancestors in the 1911 census?
I have not found one particular family I’m looking for and I’m wondering if their census schedule was removed from the original bundle on the outbreak of war in 1914 so that the family could be registered as nationals from an enemy nation.
David
January 26th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Why launch the incomplete census?I agree with the comments - the corners of GB are yet again disregarded.I disappointed Northern researcher!
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:35 pm
I have also had problems locating my German ancestors on the 1911 census. The parents were listed as ‘German subjects’ on the 1901 census. I am also wondering if this is to do with omission during the war. I am aware that my great granmother changed her name around this time, but I cannot locate the family under the changed name either.
February 6th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Phil Nicholson Says:
January 26th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Why launch the incomplete census?I agree with the comments - the corners of GB are yet again disregarded.I disappointed Northern researcher!
RESPONSE . . .
Phil, get used to it mate. You (like me) are a genuine fully fledged “2nd class citizen” as far as findmypast.com are concerned.
We do not even have our counties on the “1901″ Census yet (never mind 1911!!!!!) can you believe that. (yes, I’m sure you can).
Oh . . to be an Essex girl . . . a member of the “findmypast.com privileged class”
February 14th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
like many of the researchers above I could not believe that the northern counties had been missed, I think the census should have been released all on the same day even if it meant waiting a while longer, and if there’s only a small amount to do how much will it take, northern researcher[cumbria] talk about the great divide
March 30th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
@Frank Brash: as you can see, we have extended the validity of credits to allow users to search for counties which are not yet online.
September 30th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Has anybody else had any problems with searching for members of their family in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent ?