Census returns

National censuses are now available to view free on PCs in all libraries via our subscription to Ancestry.  However, we also hold the following local copies in microform and book form:    

At Maidenhead library

1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901 (Please note, these are microfilms of the Maidenhead area only).  

Our printed holdings are:

  • 1841 - Cookham parish
  • 1851 - Maidenhead town
  • 1851 - White Waltham parish
  • BFHS name index to 1851 census of Berkshire v.10, (Bray and Cookham subdistricts of Cookham registration district). Place index to 1841 census of Berkshire.
  • 1881 (Microfiche transcript for Berkshire and Buckinghamshire)

At Windsor library

  • 1841 (Transcription from microfilm for New Windsor only)
  • 1841 (Microfilm) Windsor Enumeration District, Binfield, Cookham, Sunninghill, Easthampstead, Winkfield, Old Windsor
  • 1851 (Microfilm) New Windsor, Clewer, Egham, Sunningdale, Ascot, Cranbourne, Holloway Sanitorium, Royal Indian Engineering College
  • 1851 (Bound volume) Windsor Enumeration District
  • 1861 (Microfilm) Egham, Old Windsor, Sunninghill, Virginia Water, Ascot Heath, Englefield Green, Windsor Castle, New Windsor, Clewer, Barracks/Hospital
  • 1871 (Microfilm) New Windsor, Clewer, Dedworth, Old Windsor, Infantry Barracks, Cavalry Barracks, Windsor Castle, Beaumont College, Thorpe, Egham, Sunninghill
  • 1881 (Bound volume) Windsor Enumeration District
  • 1881 (Microfiche transcript) Berkshire
  • 1891 (Microfilm) Windsor Enumeration District
  • 1901 (Microfilm) Windsor Enumeration District.


BFHS name index to 1851 census (Windsor).