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A ‘Who's Who’ of famous people featured on census forms down the centuries is featured in The Hall of Fame. Nineteenth century census returns can be viewed here for royalty, politicians, authors, actors, scientists, engineers and many other legendary figures. The forms reveal how these eminent names described themselves eg. Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace in 1851 described her occupation as ‘The Queen’, but didn’t make it to ‘Head of Family’, this title going to husband Albert. Soap operas Coronation Street and Eastenders may be fictitious - but they are based on real places, as census historians discovered. And what's more a Mrs E. Sharples - Ellen not Ena - actually lived in Coronation Street, Manchester in 1881. The lives of Eastenders, living in Albert Square, London, were also as eventful as they are in today's TV soap. The 1881 Census returns reveal prostitutes, brothel keepers and sailors as residents of the square and there was even a Victoria Lodge. Click CORONATION STREET or ALBERT SQUARE to see the census returns from the 1800s. Click the celebrity to see their census return:
Charlotte Bronte (1816-55) author, poet. Pen name: Currer Bell. Click HERE for a story about researching famous people using the census.
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