FreeCEN Scotland Website
Welcome to the home page for the Scotland Free Census Project. This project aims to provide a "free-to-view" online searchable database of the 19th century Scottish census returns. It is part of the larger UK Free Census Project (aka FreeCEN).
For more information on this project and how to
get involved, please read the
Project Questions and
Answers.
** There are a number of useful documents for both volunteers and coordinators
in the documentation area. **
Note: Database is now available! Uploaded returns can be searched in
the UK FreeCEN database at:
http://freecen.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl.
If you need help searching the database, or would like more information on the
transcriptions, please read the
database search
hints.
For specific information on a county, please select a county home page below or
email the county coordinator.
If you are not a coordinator or a volunteer, why not think about becoming one?
We need more volunteers now to help keep this project moving forward.
Either contact me, , or the county coordinator given below. We provide
full support.
Please keep in mind that most of our volunteers and coordinators also work full time and have personal priorities. We try to answer immediately but that isn't always possible. Please give us a week or so to answer. If we don't answer in that time, please contact the Scotland Coordinator for assistance.
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We would like to extend our gratitude and appreciation to all the People and Coordinators who have made the Scotland Free Census Project a success.
County Project Pages
Completed Years in Bold
| County and status page | Present coordinator | Coord. reqd | 1841 Population (Approx) |
1841 Records loaded | 1851 Records loaded |
1861 Records loaded |
1871 Records loaded |
| Aberdeen | 192,400 | 194,159 | 154,782 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Angus | 170,500 | 171,833 | 0 | ||||
| Argyll | 97,400 | 101,339 | 5,232 | ||||
| Ayr | 164,400 | 168,142 | 169,361 | ||||
| Banff | 49,700 | 46,399 | 50,906 | 41,694 | |||
| Berwick | 34,400 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Bute | 15,696 | 15,696 | 16,538 | 16,141 | 16,753 | ||
| Caithness | 36,300 | 37,285 | 36,729 | 42,122 | 30,706 | ||
| Clackmannan | 19,200 | 15,036 | |||||
| Dumfries | 72,800 | 72,960 | 0 | ||||
| Dunbarton | 44,300 | 17,016 | |||||
| East Lothian | Coordinator Needed | ***** | 35,838 | 35,838 | 36,301 | 37,588 | |
| Fife | 140,100 | 60,702 | 3,060 | 0 | |||
| Inverness | 97,800 | 93,201 | 64,602 | ||||
| Kincardine | 33,100 | 33,515 | 34,943 | ||||
| Kinross | 8,800 | 9,557 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Kirkcudbright | & | 41,100 | 0 | ||||
| Lanarkshire | 427,000 | 411,569 | 168,246 | ||||
| Midlothian | 225,500 | 225,256 | 123,588 | ||||
| Moray | 35,000 | 37,134 | 41,074 | 8,551 | 3,131 | ||
| Nairn | 9,200 | 7,173 | 8,018 | 4,899 | 1,661 | ||
| Orkney | 30,500 | 26,747 | |||||
| Peebles | 10,500 | 10,542 | 10,783 | 11,311 | 12,191 | ||
| Perth | 137,500 | 25,491 | |||||
| Renfrew | 155,100 | 111,467 | 45,264 | 0 | |||
| Ross & Cromarty | 78,700 | 79,811 | 15,501 | ||||
| Roxburgh | 46,000 | 45,434 | 51,569 | 24,414 | |||
| Selkirk | 8,000 | 8,125 | 9,781 | 10,407 | 14,334 | ||
| Shetland | Coordinator Needed | ***** | 30,600 | 0 | |||
| Stirling | 82,100 | 79,633 | 71,668 | ||||
| Sutherland | 24,800 | 11,240 | |||||
| West Lothian | ***** | 26,900 | 24,462 | ||||
| Wigtown | 39,200 | 39,219 | 0 | ||||
| Scottish Shipping | Included in Parish Returns | Destroyed | 3,086 | 1,969 | |||
| Totals | 2,215,981 | 1,121,033 | 200,213 | 80,745 | |||
| Scotland (Approx) | 2,620,200 | 2,888,700 | 3,062,300 | 3,360,000 | |||
| 84.6% | 38.8% | 6.5% | 2.4% | ||||
|
Total Records Online = 3,617,972 |
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Coordinators shown in italics are acting county coordinator until a permanent one is recruited. Please contact them for more information.
0 in the number uploaded means that county has been started for that year.
Last updated on
9th November 2009.
Number of times visited since January 2006