<p>There are an unexpected quantity of 'quasi-censuses' pre-dating the decennial national census, whose records survive in unexpected quantity. They include locally retained census enumeration lists made for 1801-1831 which included names of individuals, and many others in earlier centuries. For the first time these are comprehensively listed for the whole of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.</p>

Local Census Listings 1522-1930 : Holdings in the British Isles

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Jeremy Gibson

Mervyn Medlycott

Genealogy

Genealogical Publishing Co.

By law, a certain number of militiamen had to be recruited from among the  able-bodied men in each parish. Thus, lists of all those eligible had to be drawn up by the parish  constable, and where these survive (between 1757 and 1831) they constitute a veritable census.  Along with the "Defense Lists"--the Posse Comitatus of 1798 and the Levee en Masse of  1803-04--and muster rolls of various militia regiments and local forces, these militia lists (in  theory) are almost a complete census of the male population. Militias were generally raised on a  county basis, and most of these voluminous records are found today in the various county record  offices. This new work is a guide to the location of all such records in the county record offices  throughout Britain.

Militia Lists and Musters, 1757-1876 A Directory of Holdings in the British Isles

Jeremy S.W. Gibson

Genealogical Pub. Co

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