Now all the English counties are complete, we thought it would be useful to let you know the number of people found in each county: in decreasing size order. Note the huge comparative size of Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding).

1. Lancashire   4,767,832
2. London   4,521,685
3. Yorkshire, West Riding   3,045,377
4. Durham   1,369,860
5. Essex   1,350,881
6. Staffordshire   1,348,259
7. Middlesex   1,126,465
8. Kent   1,045,591
9. Warwickshire   1,040,409
10. Cheshire   954,779
11. Hampshire   950,579
12. Surrey   845,578
13. Gloucestershire   736,097
14. Devonshire   699,703
15. Northumberland   696,893
16. Derbyshire   688,423
17. Sussex   663,378
18. Nottinghamshire   604,098
19. Lincolnshire   563,960
20. Worcestershire   526,087
21. Yorkshire, East Riding (with York)   515,041
22. Norfolk   499,116
23. Leicestershire   476,553
24. Somersetshire   458,025
25. Yorkshire, North Riding   419,546
26. Suffolk   394,060
27. Northamptonshire   348,515
28. Cornwall   328,098
29. Hertfordshire   311,284
30. Wiltshire   286,822
31. Berkshire   271,009
32. Cumberland   265,746
33. Shropshire   246,307
34. Dorsetshire   223,266
35. Buckinghamshire   219,551
36. Oxfordshire   199,269
37. Cambridgeshire   198,074
38. Bedfordshire   194,588
39. Herefordshire   114,269
40. Westmorland   63,575
41. Huntingdonshire 55,577
42. Rutlandshire   20,346

Overnight, we have uploaded records for the remaining English Counties (Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland) and added the missing Gateshead district records into the county of Durham (they were incorrectly listed as part of Northumberland - this is now fixed and they are searchable under Durham, as they should be).

Therefore all English counties are now complete.

Scanning of Welsh records is well underway and we are working on the transcriptions of the first batch of Welsh counties, which will be the next data release. Although we do not have a precise release date for them yet, we anticipate that we will have some data from Wales available in the next 4 to 6 weeks.

We thought we’d give you an update on the remaining counties and approximately when they will appear on the site. Please note that the dates are highly approximate, but we prefer to give you a rough guide rather than a concrete date that might not be accurate. 

The list below is the order of scanning the documents: this might not necessarily be the order the counties actually appear on the site but it should be reasonably close.

The remaining English counties should all be available on the site within two months - the best indication we can give for Wales, Islands and Military at present is summer 2009 but we hope this is more useful than saying nothing! As soon as we can give a closer indication on specific counties and a better steer on Wales, we will.

Order of scanning:

• Yorkshire, East Riding (with York)
• Yorkshire, North Riding
• Durham
• Northumberland
• Cumberland
• Westmorland

• Monmouthshire
• Glamorganshire
• Carmarthenshire
• Pembrokeshire
• Cardiganshire
• Brecknockshire
• Radnorshire
• Montgomeryshire
• Flintshire
• Denbighshire
• Merionethshire
• Carnarvonshire
• Anglesey

• Isle of Man
• Guernsey
• Jersey
• Alderney
• Sark

• Royal Navy
• Military

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:

1. Bedfordshire
2. Berkshire
3. Buckinghamshire
4. Cambridgeshire
5. Cheshire
6. Cornwall
7. Derbyshire
8. Devonshire
9. Dorsetshire
10. Essex
11. Gloucestershire
12. Hampshire
13. Herefordshire
14. Hertfordshire
15. Huntingdonshire
16. Kent
17. Lancashire
18. Leicestershire
19. Lincolnshire
20. London
21. Middlesex
22. Norfolk
23. Northamptonshire
24. Nottinghamshire
25. Oxfordshire
26. Rutlandshire
27. Shropshire
28. Somersetshire
29. Staffordshire
30. Suffolk
31. Surrey
32. Sussex
33. Warwickshire
34. Wiltshire
35. Worcestershire
36. 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