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(1851)
The 1851 census return for St Mary Newington, Surrey, registration district: St Peter Walworth sub-district: enumeration district 21: described as: "All that Part of the Parish of St. Mary Newington, which Comprises South St. (East side), Ann St. (North side), Anns Row, Thurlow Place to Ann St., Aylesbury St. (both sides), Hen & Chicken Lane from the Hen & Chickens to East St. (both sides) Including James Place, and Victory Place, South side of East St. from Hen & Chicken Lane to Parish boundary, Surrey Square, Including Claremont Place and Crawleys Cottages." This area lay in the ecclesiastical district of St Peter Walworth, and in the borough of Lambeth. HO 107/1567. The addresses listed in the actual returns are 1 to 12 Anns Terrace; 2 to 7 Anns Row; 1 to 10 Anns Buildings; 1 to 9 Thurlow Place (including leather yard); 1 to 10 Ann(s) Street; 1 to 6 Aylesbury Place; Swiss Cottage; 1 to 4 Victory Place; 1 to 4 Pleasant Place; 1 to 8 Elizabeth Place; Brockley Lodge; 1 to 7 Victoria Place; 1 to 8 James Place; 1 to 3 Commerce Place; 1 to 9 Charles Place, East Street; 1 to 27 Anns Place; 1 to 8 Claremont Place; 1 and 2 Claremont Cottages; 27 and 28 Crawley Cottages; 1 to 29 Surrey Square; and Grove House, Surrey Square.CHAMBERS. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Inhabitants of Newington in Surrey
(1851)
The 1851 census return for St Mary Newington, Surrey, registration district: St Peter Walworth sub-district: enumeration district 23: described as: "All that Part of the Parish of St. Mary Newington, which Comprises East St. (North side) from John St. to Flint St, Flint St. (East side) & West side to Deans Buildings, Including Park Place (both sides), Huntsman St., Little Park Place, Park Road, & Hearnes Buildings". This area lay in the ecclesiastical district of St Peter Walworth, and in the borough of Lambeth. HO 107/1567. The addresses listed in the actual returns are 7 to 13 Sion Place; 1 to 20 Park Place (including Park Cottage (two)); 1 and 2 Huntsman Street; 1 to 7 Little Park Place; Park House Police Station; 1 to 4 Park Road; 1 to 16 Prior Place; 1 to 5 Brunswick Terrace; 1 to 8 and 31 to 41 Flint Street; and 1 and 2 Hearnes Buildings.CHAMBERS. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Inhabitants of Southwark in Surrey
(1851)
The 1851 census return for St George the Martyr, Southwark, registration district: London Road sub-district: enumeration district 10: described as: "London Road (south side), No 68 to No 1 and the Blind School - Albert Terrace - Gladstone St - Opposite Albert Terrace - Richmond Street - St George's Road (North side) including Preston House - Gladstone Place - Richmond Terrace - and West Place to the corner of Garden Row." This area lay in the parish of St George the Martyr, Southwark, ecclesiastical district of St Jude. The addresses listed in the actual returns are 1 to 68 London Road, Albert Arms, 1 to 5 Richmond Terrace, 1 to 26 Richmond Street, 1 to 16 Gladstone Street, 1 to 34 Albert Terrace, 1 to 4 West Place, 1 to 3 Richmond Place, 1 to 4 Gladstone Place, Preston House (St Georges Road) and the Blind School (London Road). The students at the Blind School are not included in this index.CHAMBERS. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Inhabitants of Southwark in Surrey
(1851)
The 1851 census return for St George the Martyr, Southwark, registration district: London Road sub-district: enumeration district 6: described as: "Gibraltar Row (both sides) commencing next to the 'Prince of Wales' - Union Place - Smith's Pl - Caroline Pl - Elliott's Row (west side) to the end of Parish - Mount Row or Place & Elliotts Place." This area lay in the parish of St George the Martyr, Southwark, ecclesiastical district of St Jude. The addresses listed in the actual returns are 1 to 65 Gibralter (sic) Row, 1 to 4 Caroline Place, 1 to 4 Castle Place, 1 to 14 Gibralter Place, 4 to 10 Smith's Place, 1 to 6 Union Place, 32 to 63 Elliotts Row, 2 to 16, 33 and 34 Elliotts Place, 2 to 6 Mount Row, and 1 to 3 Elizabeth Place.CHAMBERS. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Inhabitants of Southwark in Surrey
(1851)
The 1851 census return for St George the Martyr, Southwark, registration district: London Road sub-district: enumeration district 17: described as: "Charles Street (both sides) & House back of No 4 - Charles Place - South side of Westminster Road commencing at Catholic Chapel & including Princess Place, Asylum Buildings, Lee's Place & Hatfield Pl to the Crown inclusive - Lambeth Road to the Catholic Chapel & both sides of Joiner Street." This area lay in the parish of St George the Martyr, Southwark. The addresses listed in the actual returns are 1 to 29 Charles Street, 1 to 4 Charles Place, The Joiners Arms, 1 to 3 Joiners Place, 1 to 15 and 19 to 34 Joiner Street, St Georges Catholic Chapel, 1 to 5 Princess Place, 1 to 4 Asylum Buildings, 1 to 9 Hatfield Place, St Georges Circus (Crown Tavern), 1 to 7 Lees Place and 1 to 24 Lambeth Road.CHAMBERS. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Masters of Merchantmen and Shippers
(1851)
The London Mercantile Journal and Colonial Advocate, a weekly newspaper, published a report entitled Ships Entered Outwards, listing vessels registered with customs in the Port of London as preparing to leave for abroad. Under each day's heading each entry gives, first, the main port of destination; then the name of the ship; then the surname of the captain; nationality of the ship (e. g., B for British, D for Dutch, &c.); tonnage; the dock (e. g., W I D for West India Dock); and the name of the shipper or agent. These are the returns for December 1851. (The sample scan is from February)CHAMBERS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Men in Newington Workhouse in Surrey
(1851)
The 1851 census return for Newington Workhouse, which served the whole of St Mary Newington, Surrey, poor law union: in the ecclesiastical district of St Peter Walworth, and in the borough of Lambeth. HO 107/1567. This is the index to the adult males in the institution.CHAMBERS. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| New South Wales Intestates
(1851)
The probate courts of the Australian colonies furnished returns of estates of deceased intestates, giving full name, colonial residence, supposed British or foreign residence of family (often unknown, or left blank), amount of the estate and how much had been disbursed and how. The date of death is often stated, and if by accident, suicide or crime. Names were carried forward from return to return until the estate was expended or exhausted. CHAMBERS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Prisoners in the House of Correction at Westminster
(1851)
The 1851 census enumerators' books for the mass of the population record the information as in this sample scan. However, there were also separate books for the major public institutions. The instructions for the first column (Name and Surname of each Person who abode in the Institution on the Night of the 30th March, 1851) run: "Write after the Name of the Master or Head of the Institution the Names of his Wife, Children, other Relatives, and Servants; then the Names of the Officers, their Families, and Servants. Commence the list of Inmates for which the Institution is provided on another page." For the second column (Position in the Institution): "State whether the person is the Head, or an Officer or Servant, or the Wife, Son, Daughter, or other relative of such Officer or Servant. If an Inmate, state whether patient, soldier, scholar, &c." For the third column (Condition): "Write 'Married,' 'Widower,' 'Widow,' or 'Unmarried,' against the Names of all Persons except Young Children." For the fourth column (Age (last Birthday)): "For Infants under One Year state the Age in Months, writing 'Under 1 Month,' '1 Month,' '2 Months,' &c." For the fifth column (Rank, Profession or Occupation): "State here the profession, or what is believed to have been the ordinary occupation of the Inmate before admission into the Institution. Carefully distinguish in this column the different kinds of 'laborers,' and those who have been masters in trade from others." For the sixth column (Where Born): "Opposite the Names of those born in England, Scotland, or Ireland write the County, and Town or Parish. If born in the British Colonies, the East Indies, or in Foreign Parts, state the Country; in the last case, if a British Subject, add 'British Subject.'" For the seventh column (Whether Blind, or Deaf-and-Dumb): "Write 'Deaf-and-Dumb,' or 'Blind,' opposite the Name of the Person.'" The House of Correction of the City of Westminster was in the parish of St Margaret and the ecclesiastical district of St Stephen's; in Westminster superintendent registrar's district, and St Margaret registrar's district. There were 21 officers, 8 members of their families, and 6 servants; the institution held 737 prisoners - 245 men and 492 women. HO 107/1480
CHAMBERS. Cost: £2.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Pupil Teachers in Derbyshire: Boys
(1851)
The Committee of Council on Education awarded annual grants for the training and support of pupil teachers and stipendiary monitors in schools in England, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Pupil teachers started training between the ages of 13 and 15, and 'must not be subject to any bodily infirmity likely to impair their usefulness as Pupil Teachers, such as scrofula, fits, asthma, deafness, great imperfections in the sight or voice, the loss of an eye from constitutional disease, or the loss of an arm or leg, or the permanent disability of either arm or leg, curvature of the spine, or a hereditary tendency to insanity'.
They also had to obtain certificates from the managers of the school (and their clergyman, in the case of Church of England schools) as to their moral character and that of their family; good conduct; punctuality, diligence, obedience, and attention to duty; and attentiveness to their religious duties.
This detailed statement in the annual report of the committee for the year ending 31 October 1851 lists schools by county, giving:
1. Name and Denomination of School, with these abbreviations - B, British and Foreign School Society; F. C., Free Church of Scotland; H. C., Home and Colonial School Society; N., National Society, or connected with the Church of England; R. C., Roman Catholic Poor-School Committee; Wesn., Wesleyan Methodist.
2. Annual grants conditionally awarded by the committee in augmentation of teachers' salaries, and in stipends to apprentices, and gratuities to teachers.
3. Month in which annual examination was to be held.
4. Names of apprentices, giving surname and initials, and year of apprenticeship. Stipendiary monitors are indicated by (S. M.).CHAMBERS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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