 A project to transcribe and
index the 1901 census for Rushden was undertaken by the Rushden & District
History Society in August/September 2002 to add to our collection of documents
and indexes for display at the first "Rushden Discovery Day" in
October 2002. It has since been re-checked and is now presented together
with the rest of the parishes of the Higham Ferrers Hundred, which have
been transcribed during 2003.
The "hundred" was
an ancient administration district and the parishes which together form
the Higham Ferrers Hundred are Bozeat, Chelveston cum Caldecott, Easton
Maudit with Strixton, Hargrave, Higham Ferrers, Irchester, Newton Bromswold,
Raunds, Ringstead, Rushden, Stanwick & Wollaston. Rushden was by far
the largest parish with 12,455 names in the index. Covington in Huntingdonshire
was also included as it was enumerated with Hargrave.
Our transcript also has the
Public Records Office reference, the folio number and page number to help
locate the entry in the original records.
Errors will occur, either from
the original evidence given, the poor education of some of the inhabitants,
misreading of handwriting by the enumerator, mistakes in our transcription
or missed by checkers. We hope there will not be too many faults, but we
will be pleased to receive notice of any discrepancies found.
Rushden &
District History Society
The transcription is available for sale on CD-ROM in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format for £5 per copy.
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