The 1841 Census

The 1841 census covering Oatlands do not exist – they are officially listed as “lost” within the National Archives collections catalogue.

At the time of the 1841 census (the night of the 7th of June) Oatlands was, for all practical purposes, simply the Oatlands Estate - owned at this time by Edward Hughes Ball Hughes, although he had already gone to France to escape his creditors. Although it would have revealed the names, ages and occupations of those people employed by the estate and those renting property from it, and enabled us to trace people who remained in Oatlands into the later censuses, the 1841 censuses for Walton and Weybridge are, sadly, unavailable as a source of information.

There is always a hope that it may come to light at some point in the future if a "local" copy exists hidden away somewhere - but, frankly, it is very unlikely...