Hi Martin, Thanks for the Blundell records and the clarification below. When I found out there are just a few districts in England that have held on to the early census records, I didn't dare dream one of them was Bolton! How lucky that is. Thanks so much, Leisha Central Penna Subject: RE: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] Censuses 1811,21,31 Censuses were carried out in the years before 1841 but they were just head counts to get population numbers. Some records have survived for some areas and luckily Great Bolton is one of them. http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~alan/family/N-EarlyCensuses.html<http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~alan/family/N-EarlyCensuses.html>