My site is about Freehold Land Societies, Birkendale in particular, to get an introduction to Birkendale, click here.

In my site, you will be able to download actual census data from the area in a spreadsheet, and look at pictures and maps of the area now and in the past. Take a journey through the history of Birkendale, so you can see how the number of inhabitants grew and also look at the kind of jobs they had. Also, take a look at scanned-in pictures of the census I had to decipher and look at one family in 1851 and 1871.

Learn more about the history of Birkendale.

View some pictures of Birkendale now and compare maps.

See a small sample of what you can do with the information you get in the download section.

Download spreadsheet versions of the 1851 and 1871 census, and get a scan of what the actual census looked like.

If you have lived on Birkendale and want to tell your story, visit the ex-pats section.

To do a search about Freehold Land Societies, use the search engine below or go here.

 These pages were last updated on 8/08/02