The 1951 Census

The 1851 Census is the first one available that covers Oatlands and took place only 5 years after the Oatlands Estate was broken up for sale by public auction.

It was taken on the night of 30th March and should have recorded all persons present within a particular household that night. As any family historian knows this was not always the case but it is the best we have and we work within its limitations and occasional omissions.

One of the problems with this census as far as Oatlands is concerned is that the enumerator seems to have meandered about rather than following the edict of 'up one side of the road and down the other' - given the relative low number of occupied houses, or other buildings within Oatlands at the time, this is completely understandable, but it does make trying to physically locate a house or other building 'onto the map' considerably more difficult.

 Oatlands at this time appears within both the Weybridge and Walton on Thames censuses as it was not yet a separate registration district and that further complicates the issue – particularly as many of the roads named in the census no longer exist and Oatlands has no named roads whatsoever…

1851 Census - Instructions to Householder - MS-Word Download

1851 Census - Transcribed Schedules - Not Yet Available

1851 Census - Transcribed Schedules - Not Yet Available