1861 Census

The 1861 Census

The 1861 Census was taken on the night of April 7th and recorded all persons present within a particular household that night.

Although the enumerator still tended to meander a bit - though considerably less that ten years previously - physically locating buildings is made easier by the fact that there are many more 'known landmarks' from which to obtain clues.

Now, some fifteen years after the estate was broken up and sold, the 'shape' of the village is beginning to become clearly defined in terms of the class structure and the different types of housing that they occupied - this was a pattern that lasted, for the best part of the next one hundred years and was still clearly evident until the 'building boom' of the late 1960s and early 1970s changed it forever.

Oatlands appears within both the Weybridge and Walton on Thames censuses as it was still not yet a separate registration district and was defined by the boundary between the two parishes as far as the census was concerned..

1861 Census - Transcribed Schedules - Not Yet Available