1861 Census Transcription
The 1861 census for England was taken on the night of 7 April 1861. Enumeration forms were distributed to all households a few days before the census night and the household members were required to complete the forms themselves. The next day, the enumerators collected the completed forms. All of the details from the individual forms were later sorted and copied into enumerators’ books. The original census schedules that were completed by household members were destroyed. However, the enumerators’ books were kept and in 1970 the records were microfilmed. The microfilm copies of the books for England, Wales, the Isle of Man, and the Channel islands are available at the Family Records Centre in London. The census records were grouped by county and then subdivided by civil parish groups. Many times, but not always, the civil parish name is the same name as the local ecclesiastical parish.
Listed below is a transcription of the:-
1861 Census for the Administrative County of Essex
Civil Parish of Hockley
Ecclesiastical Parish of St Peters, Hockley
Rural District of Rochford
Parliamentary Borough or Division of South Eastern Division
Village of Hockley
Collected on 7 April 1861
Public Record Office Ref: RG 9/1083
By Robert Josling