FreeCEN is a collection of free UK census records from 1841 to 1891. FreeCEN is a part of FreeUKGEN which also owns FreeReg and FreeBMD.

FreeCEN adds new transcriptions regularly and is currently adding to the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891 census records.

Searches can be made by:

• Year
• Enumeration district
• Surname
• Phonetic search on Surname
• First name
• Marital status
• age or birth year
• age or year range
• Gender
• Occupation
• Language
• Disability
• Census county
• Birth county
• birth place
• civil parish
• ecclesiastical district
• street
• and more