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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Lancashire => Topic started by: keenbutconfused on Saturday 17 February 07 20:22 GMT (UK)
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Hi - I live in the village of Dolphinholme, which is presently in the parish of Ellel, Lancashire. I would like to look at the census returns for the area - have ancestry subscription - but can't find the parish of Ellel listed when I try to browse the 1841 census. Can anyone advise where it might be hiding please???
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District 7 in Cockerham includes Dolphinholme.
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Many thanks for that - I wondered if that might be the case, but wasn't sure where to start to find out. Isn't it odd - Cockerham is even smaller than Dolphinholme now (and Dolphinholme is small enough!) - but it must have been of much more importance then!
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Glad to be of help, KBC.
To find descriptions of enumeration districts on Ancestry, after you have clicked on a particular census year from the home page, go down to the bottom of the census search form page. There is a list of counties.
Click on the county you want, and a list of civil parishes comes up. A bit of trial and error after that will usually get you where you want to be.