List, A few details for the geeks amongst you all about the 1891 Census for Herefordshire. 1891 Census Index for Herefordshire, County Index. The final Registration District of the 1891 Census Index, Bromyard RD has now been completed and is available to purchase on CD at £5 plus 50p P & P A big thank you to all the 35 people who have worked on this project, all of you that have transcribed, typed or check your way through the last 2 years. The full county index is now also available on CD at £10 plus 50p P & P Where fiche have contained bordering county parishes we have decided to include them, after all our ancestors did not stop at the county borders, you will find entries from part or all of the following; Bromyard RD includes the Parishes and Hamlets of Acton Beauchamp, Lower Sapey, Tenbury, Great Kyre, Bockleton, Little Kyre, Stoke Bliss, Hanley Child, Hanley William, Eastham, Orleton, Rochford, Lindridge, Knighton on Teme, Berrington, Hutton, and Upton in Worcestershire. Also includes the Parishes and Hamlets of Burford, Greet, Whitton, Whatmore, Weston, Tilsop, Boraston & Nash in Shropshire Ross RD includes parts of the following Gloucestershire parishes; Highleadon, Newent, Oxenhall, Pauntley, Ruardean, Rudford, Taynton, Tibberton, Upleadon. Also includes parts of the following Monmouthshire parishes; Skenfrith, St Maughans & Rockfield. Kington RD includes the Parishes and Hamlets of Glynfach, Hay, & Llanigon in Breconshire. Also includes the Parishes and Hamlets of Barland, Burlingjobb, Burva, Colva, Ednol, Evenjobb, Franksbridge, Gladestry, Glascomb, Harpton & Woolfpits, Kinnerton, Llandegley, Llanfihangel Nant Melan, Michaelchurch, Newcastle, Newchurch, New Radnor, Old Radnor, Stapleton, Walton, Willey and Womaston in Radnorshire. For all the geeks out there there were 21,000 children under 15 years old recorded, six of these were infants not yet named, all under 1 month, the youngest 1 hour old, Surname Roberts born in Linton. The oldest recorded were two 98 year olds. Surnames, there were over 7,000 different variants of names, Christian names were even more numerous at over 11,000 variants. The Top Ten most common Surnames were in descending order; Jones, Williams, Davies, Price, Powell, Smith, Lewis, Evans, Watkins and Morgan. Christian Names Top Ten, William, John, Elizabeth, Thomas, George, James, Mary, Charles, Sarah and Henry, so if you hoping to find a William Jones (272) or a John Williams (179), all I can say is good luck. In the column which asked for 'Parish Born' there over 10,000 different locations listed, amongst those were places like Australia, Bangalore, Barbados, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Japan, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, USA, Utah or just '17 Blenheim Terrace, London'. Our ancestors certainly did travel about, in fact 50,000 of the 136,000 in the index were not listed as being born within Herefordshire. Phil Bufton Vice Chairman Herefordshire FHS