Please excuse the ignorance of an American on the wrong side of the pond: is the 1841 census for Bucks available in any searchable form, or it is just page by page searching? I'm looking for the family of Thomas and Rebecca [PEARCE] WHEELER, who were in the Flackwell Heath area in the 1851 census. Thomas was a papermaker, born in Exeter, Devonshire, but in Bucks from at least 1828, when his daughter, my ancestor Mary Ann, was baptised. Thomas and Rebecca were married in Wooburn, September 21, 1814. In 1851 Thomas was 57 and Rebecca was 56. I think it likely they attended Flackwell Heath Primitive Methodist Chapel. I think Thomas died in 1866, so I'm anxiously awaiting the 1861 release later this month to learn more about the WHEELERs and the SMITHs. Al Dawson, Iowa City, Iowa - MA, History, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1973 Visit my website at: www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/a/w/Al--Dawson/ Ancestor Birthday: Peleg Sanford Mason, April 06, 1720, Stonington, CT. Source: Gary Boyd Roberts, "The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, Who Were Themselves Notable or Left Descendants Notable in American History" (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc., 2001) pp. 233-34

In message <1a8.351fd292.2f855354@aol.com>, Microfish7@aol.com writes >Please excuse the ignorance of an American on the wrong side of the pond: is >the 1841 census for Bucks available in any searchable form, or it is just >page by page searching? > >I'm looking for the family of Thomas and Rebecca [PEARCE] WHEELER, who were >in the Flackwell Heath area in the 1851 census. Thomas was a papermaker, born >in Exeter, Devonshire, but in Bucks from at least 1828, when his daughter, my >ancestor Mary Ann, was baptised. Thomas and Rebecca were married in Wooburn, >September 21, 1814. We (Bucks GS) do have the raw data for the 1841 census of the Wycombe area. It is not indexed. so searching will take a little time. > >In 1851 Thomas was 57 and Rebecca was 56. I think it likely they attended >Flackwell Heath Primitive Methodist Chapel. I think Thomas died in 1866, so I'm >anxiously awaiting the 1861 release later this month to learn more about the >WHEELERs and the SMITHs. Right on track - the disc burning should be complete by early next week. (If everything goes according to plan.) > -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society