Details collected include:
Place: street name, house number or house name.
Houses: inhabited, uninhabited or a building.
Names of each person who were resident in the house on the night preceding the census.
Age and sex of each person: The actual age in years or months for babies under one year are recorded in the 1861 census.
Rank, Profession or Occupation.
Birth place, county and country.
Whether Blind, Deaf or Dumb.
The Superintend Registrar's District was Eton, Bucks and the Registrar's district was Eton. Enumeration District No. 6.
The area classed as Eton Wick for the 1861 census was the remainder of the Parish of Eton west of the Great Western Railway including Eton Wick, Lillywhites Farm, Saddocks Farm and Aldridges Farm.
The area classed as Eton Wick for the 1861 census was the remainder of the Parish of Eton west of the Great Western Railway including Eton Wick, Lillywhites Farm, Saddocks Farm and Aldridges Farm.
The 1861 Census reveals that there were 78 households and 276 people resident in the village on the 8th April. The oldest person, Thomas Pusey age of 86, he was born in 1763. There were three other residents in their 80’s. William Miles was youngest at three months old was the second child of Henry and Sarah Miles. William was the only baby born in the first three months of 1861.
Click on this link to see our transcription of the 1861 census records for Eton Wick. We will be looking deeper into what the census reveals about Eton Wick and publish our findings in future articles.
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