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1841 census goes online

First to include details of age, occupation and blrthplace for family historians

The 1841 census of Britain has gone online for the first time, offering family historians a detailed snapshot of early Victorian life.

The website Ancestry.co.uk now has now translated all censuses from 1841 to 1901 into digital data which can be searched online.

The 1841 census was the first to include details like the age, occupation and birthplace of each occupant of a building.

It includes details of luminaries such as Charles Dickens, who was in the first flush of his success.

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