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Information about parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, parish chest records, non conformist and other types of church records. Also add links to online parish collections. Make reference to records found in the FHLC.   

Although it is commonly thought that surviving enumerators schedules for the decades 1841-1901 constitute surviving census material, the 1851 census had for the first time a religious census. Each enumerator was asked to identify the existing religious group meetings in their designated enumeration district. Although this varied in enumerator performance it has been possible for example to locate a large proportion of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints branches in existence immediately prior to the exodus from Britain to USA therefore references to the religious census for this year are vital to include. Equally important are the locations of other faiths house meetings and temporary structures which precede the building of permanent structures. There were literally thousands of "tin tabernacles" (usually manufactured by Boulton &amp; Co, Norwich) used by all faiths as temporary meeting places. In such places there may be a census record surviving to justify request for land and permanent building. Temporary Roman Catholic Church buildings are also common in the nineteenth and twentieth century as large construction projects caused temporary worker settlements to construct railway viaducts, tunnels, electrical generation or new mining communities. Surviving records could be referenced in this section or a separate heading.<br>