What is Crown copyright?
Copyright material which is produced by employees of the Crown in the course of their duties. Therefore, most material originated by ministers and civil servants is protected by Crown copyright.

The information in these pages is Crown copyright and has been put online solely for the purpose of providing free public access to the census transcriptions prepared by the SOCP. The information may not be published or distributed in any form. The only exception to this is that a small number of individual data records may be extracted for the purpose of personal family or local history research. You can do lookups but you would be better advised to refer people to the online database. Any other activities should first be referred to the SOCP organizers.