England Jurisdictions 1851

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Works Referenced

 * List of Places, Changes to Places:
 * National Index of Parish Registers Series. Vols. 4, pt. 1; 6, pts. 1-5; 7; 8, pts. 1-6; 9, pts 1, 3-6; 10, pts. 1-3; 11, pts. 1-3. London: Society of Genealogists, various.
 * Youngs, Frederic A., Jr. Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England. 2 vols. London: Royal Historical Society, c 1980-c1991.

Various parish maps in the Family History Library collection were used to verify and identify places.
 * Base Map:
 * Kain, Roger J.P. and Richard R. Oliver, comps. Historic Parishes of England & Wales: Electronic Map-Gazetteer-Metadata. Colchester [England]: History Data Service, 2001. 3 CDs.
 * Lobel, M.D., gen.ed. The Atlas of Historic Towns. Vol. 2. Ilkeley, England: Scholar Press, 1975.


 * Market Towns:
 * Lewis, Samuel. Atlas to the Topographical Dictionaries of England and Wales: Comprising a General Map of England and Wales, a Plan of London, and Maps of the Counties. London: S. Lewis, 1849.

Other places in the parish were compiled from each source used as data was collected. A concerted effort was made to collect these from:
 * Other Places in the Parish, See References, Variant Spellings:
 * Wilson, John Marius. The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., [1871?].


 * Civil Registration Districts:
 * Public Records Office. Class List of All 1851 Census Returns. 7 vols. [London: Public Record Office, 19--].
 * Census of Great Britain, 1851. Population tables: Numbers of the inhabitants in the years 1801, 1811, 1821, 1831, 1841, 1851. Vol 1 pt 3&4. [S.I.: s.n., 19--?].


 * Hundreds:
 * Public Records Office. Class List of All 1841 Census Returns. 5 vols. [London: Public Record Office, 19--].
 * Youngs, Frederic A., Jr. Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England. 2 vols. London: Royal Historical Society, c 1980-c1991.

Information was sometimes taken from introductory material in county probate indexes and a variety of additional sources.
 * Probate Courts:
 * Camp, Anthony J. Wills and Their Whereabouts. London: Anthony J. Camp, c 1974.
 * Gibson, J.S.W. and Else Churchill. Probate Jurisdictions: Where to Look for Wills. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., c 2002.
 * Gibson. J.S.W. Wills and Where to Find Them. Chichester: Phillimore and Co., Ltd., 1974.


 * Diocese, Rural Deanery, Poor Law Union:
 * Youngs, Frederic A., Jr. Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England. 2 vols. London: Royal Historical Society, c 1980-c1991.