Census and Population Records

In this section

Parish Registers

From 1631 can be found HERE

Census data 1841 to 1911

50 spreadsheets compiled, analysed and indexed by Gareth Richard, presents the data in a variety of interesting spread sheets (xls).This is probably the most useful section for genealogists.  The files can be  searched on line or  downloaded and manipulated to search or present data to your own choice.

Other data sources in chronological order

• 1086 - The Domesday Book
• 1591 - Members of the Jury of the Court of Survey of the Manor of Christ Church in Deddington taken June 4th 1591. This list (pdf) is taken from a document belonging to the Stilgoe family (see also 1640 below) and is made up of the tenants of the Manor and contains details of both the 1591 and 1640 Courts of Survey.
  
• 1623 onwards-  Cartwright Papers. The Cartwright family moved to Aynho in 1616 and lived there for more than 300 years, having extensive land holdings in both Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, including Deddington.
  Their papers, held in the Northamptonshire Records Office, contain the names of many of the people who lived in Deddington at different periods, from a 1623 list of inhabitants to a group of emigrants who left for Quebec in 1832.
• 1640 - Members of the Jury of the Court of Survey for the Manor of Deddington taken 14th October 1640.  This list (pdf) is made up of the tenants of the Manor and contains details of both the 1591 and 1640 Courts of Survey. 
• 1754 - A List of the Several Persons who voted for the Right Honourable Philip Wenman and Sir James Dashwood Baronet ; to be objected to by the Right Honourable Thomas Parker Esquire and Sir Edward Turner Baronet.
• 1791 - The Universal British Directory.  Deddington names and occupations
• 1792 - The Universal British Directory Preamble with no names but presumably largely the same as 1791. Reference to two medicinal springs. See also reference to them in 1839 Robson's Commercial Directory
  
• 1798 Land Tax records.  An act of parliament set a land tax resulting in the drawing up of lists of both owners and occupiers of land subject to this tax. While no details of the properties were given, these lists do provide a sort of mini-census.
• 1807 - Deddington Homesteads from the Deddington Quality Book.
• 1808 - Enclosure: Proprietors of land in Deddington, Clifton and Hempton (pdf)  For more details of the Enclosure award, village maps and a full key identifying all the properties/proprietors in the parish follow this link.
• c.1808 - A list of tenants and others taken from an account of land belonging to Henry, Nathaniel and Zachariah Stilgoe. We are indebted to a member of the Stilgoe family for making this document available to DOL.
• 1826 - The Copy of the Poll for Knights of the Shire for the County of Oxford. Taken at Oxford, on the sixteenth, seventeenth, and nineteenth of June 1826.
• 1830 - Piggotts Directory (pdf)
• 1837 - Causes of Death taken from the Deddington Parish Register
• 1839 The Charity Commissioners’ report on the state of charities in Deddington
• 1839 Robson's Commercial Directory with list of names
  
• 1845 The Electoral Register for Deddington Parish in the General Election. The franchise was very limited, excluding the poorer inhabitants and, of course, women.
  
• 1845 April 19th - 19 people emigrated to Quebec
• 1852 - Gardener's Directory (Extract)
• 1852 - Gardeners Directory
  
• 1868 - Cassey's Directory
• 1881 Workhouse residents.  Deddington residents of the Woodstock Union Workhouse in Bladon
• 1891- Kelly's Directory
  
• 1895 - Kelly's Directory
• 1911 Kelly's Directory
• 1935 Kelly's Directory
• 1939 Kelly's Directory
• 1939 Register This survey was carried out at the outbreak of WWII.  In the absence of the 1931 census (lost through fire) it is a very useful record.There are 2 sub-registers that apply to Deddington. The links below are to the Ancestry.co.uk subscription website.  Find my Past also has access to them. There is no great pattern in the enumerators order of recording. Some streets are included in both sub registers - presumably s/he covered the other side later in the walk and each has a couple of miscellanous pages at the end - presumably because no one was in on the first walk round.
     DZBH
     DZBI
  
• 1975 Polling List
  
• 2011 Census

See also

• Summaries of extracts from census data at foot of Census Spreadsheets
  
• Deddington & District History Society OnLine Historical Resources