« Reply #23 on: Thursday 19 September 13 21:02 BST (UK) »
Have a look at Valda's excellent guide to the censuses in the Census & Resource board.
Briefly:
Census records have a reference to identify a specific page.
The first part indicates the year
HO107 = 1841 & 1851
RG9 = 1861
RG10 = 1871
& so on to RG14 = 1911
Up to & including 1901 each year is divided into pieces which was the area covered by one enumerator, the person who went from house to house to copy down the forms filled in by the householder - the 96 of the reference given earlier
Each piece is divided into folios - the 24 of the reference
Each folio has 2 pages [but not numbered 1 & 2] = the 31 of the reference
Hence RG10 96 24 31
Means 1871 piece 96 folio 24 page 31.
Each piece has at the beginning a list of streets covered by the piece, referred to as the street index. It was a description of the route taken by the enumerator. I have not checked but I suspect the reference given is for the street index covering the street requested in the first post.
The 1911 census was the first where the form completed by the householder was collected & archived.
Hope this helps.
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON
