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Research in Other Countries => Europe => Topic started by: Hammerman on Thursday 24 August 17 14:08 BST (UK)
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I seem to remember once, a few years ago, seeing online the results and images of Census returns for the town of Calais, I think 1851, carried out as part of the England/Wales census. Can anyone confirm and where to look for them?
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To my knowledge this does not exist as documents carried out as part of the England/Wales censuses. Even shipping returns were only taken for vessels in home waters.
"Recensements de population" do exist in French archives and the ones for Pas-de-Calais are online:
http://www.archivespasdecalais.fr/Archives-en-ligne/Histoire-d-une-personne/Recensements-de-population
For the most part they are not yet indexed so without an address it can be hard to search unless your family lived in a small village. I've attached an example of what the record for an English family in the 1851 would look like in these records (in this case for Saint-Pierre-lès-Calais).