Census of weekday and Sunday schools supported by religious bodies, with their dates of establishment and income, the number and gender of pupils on the books and in attendance on census day, and the number, gender and remuneration of teachers (2542)

Type of Data: Census of weekday and Sunday schools supported by religious bodies, with their dates of establishment and income, the number and gender of pupils on the books and in attendance on census day, and the number, gender and remuneration of teachers (2542)

Faith Community: Christianity

Date: 1851, 30 March (Sunday Schools) and 31 March (day schools)

Geography: Great Britain

Population: Weekday and Sunday schools connected with religious bodies

Keywords: Pupils, religious education, Sunday school, teachers, weekday schools

Collection Method: Self-completion questionnaire, filled in by the official responsible for each day or Sunday school

Collection Agency: Census Office

Sponsor: Home Office

Survey Instrument: Census of Great Britain, 1851: Education, England and Wales, pp. xcvi-cxi

Published Source:

Census of Great Britain, 1851: Education, England and Wales, Report and Tables, London: printed by George E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1854, [Command 1692] (Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, Session 1852-53, Vol. 90, reprinted in the Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers, Population, 11, 1970)

Census of Great Britain, 1851: Religious Worship and Education, Scotland - Report and Tables, London: printed by George E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1854 (Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, Session 1854, Vol. 59, reprinted in the Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers, Population, 11, 1970)

The Census and Sunday Schools: An Appeal Addressed to the Conductors of Schools, by the Committee of the Sunday School Union, London: the Union, 1854

Joachim Max Goldstrom, 'Education in England and Wales in 1851: The Education Census of Great Britain, 1851', The Census and Social Structure: An Interpretative Guide to Nineteenth Century Censuses for England and Wales, ed. Richard Lawton, London: Frank Cass, 1978, pp. 224-40

BRIN ID: 2542

Remarks:

The original returns from the 1851 education census have not survived

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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