The Forgotten Returns: the 1851 religious and educational censuses

The 1851 census enumerators also gathered returns on all churches, chapels and meeting houses, and also all the day schools, Sunday schools, evening classes and institutes in their areas. Most of the educational returns were destroyed after summarisation except for those of the Keighley and Todmorden Unions. It is believed there may be some other educational census returns in the London area. This workshop will follow worked examples for chapels and for schools, linking data from the 1851 census, among the scattered coal-mining communities close to Haworth.