How will the census help me?

How will the census help me?

The census returns are the bridge between the records of civil registration which were started in England and Wales in 1837, and local records, which are parish registers, marriages, and burial, which precedes the records of civil registration. They will tell you, household by household, the names of everybody in the household. You can have a look at snapshots of a particular household or a particular family in 10 year intervals. We get a glimpse of how they are getting on, the number of children in each household, and also when they are likely to have married, and the names of the marital partners. They are extremely important.