[note this page forms a slightly updated section of my paper delivered to Manx Methodist Historical Society AGM, Nov 1998 - see index for other sections and actual returns]

References and further reading

Manx Church History

 W. Curry The Story of Primitive Methodism in the Isle of Man
published in The Primitive Methodist World 20 Dec 1906 through to 4 April 1907
a shortened version published in 1909 as A Kingdom Won. The Story of Primitive Methodism in the Isle of Man

[J. Davidson. & A Hunter Wray] The First Century of Presbyterianism in Douglas Isle of Man, 1825 1925
L.G.Meyer Douglas 1925

William S Demsey History of the Catholic Church in the Isle of Man Birchly Hall Press Wigan 1958

J. Gelling A History of the Manx Church 1698-1911
Manx Heritage Douglas (ISBN 0-9524319-4-0) 1998
(very readable but somewhat flawed by lack of any references)

P. Kelly The History of St Mary of the Isle 1984
(gives an excellent history of the re-establishment of a significant Catholic Community on the Island)

A. W. Moore Diocesan Histories: Sodor and Man
SPCK 1894

B Nightingale Lancashire Nonconformity vol 6 The Churches of Southport, Liverpool and the Isle of Man 1906

J. Roscow Eighteenth Century Nonconformists in the Records of the Manx Museum
Proc IoM Nat History and Antiquarian Soc IX #4 pp 473-490 1990

James Rosser The History of Wesleyan Methodism in the Isle of Man: with some account of the Island, and of the life and labours of Bishop Wilson; in a series of letters
M.A.Quiggin Douglas 1849

1851 Religious Census

B. I. Coleman The Church of England in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
General Series #98 Historical Association (ISBN 0-85278-233-0) 1980
(A 48 page survey which makes extensive use of the Religious Census - includes aggregated returns for all English Counties, N. & S. Wales, and the largest 45 towns in England, has an extensive bibliography)

C. D. Field Methodism in the 1851 Religious Census of England and Wales: A Methodological Reappraisal pp169/190 of Methodism in its Cultural Milieu - Proc of the Centenary of Wesley Historical Soc July 1993 Cambridge England

C. D. Field The 1851 Religious Census: a Select Bibliography
Wesley Historical Society 1978
(now somewhat dated but still useful)

J. D. Gay The Geography of Religion in England 1971
(Has a extensive collection of maps showing the spread of the various denominations - includes much material pre and post the 1851 census though census results are the cornerstone of his data)

H. Mann On the Religious Census 1854
(An edited extract from Mann's introduction to the 1854 report is given in section 6.1.1. of Religion in Victorian Britain vol III Sources ed J. Moore- Manchester University Press (ISBN 0-7190-2944-9)1988)

J. A. Vickers The 1851 Religious Census
Short Guides to Records #45 Historical Association 1995
(A short 5 page overview of the census with a select Bibliography)

Individual county analysis of 1851 census returns -

An updated list from that in D. Robinson The 1851 Religious Census: Surrey - many of these volumes contain brief histories of the various chapels/churches included, that for Surrey is an excellent example of what can be done.

Bedfordshire

 Bedfordshire Ecclesiastical Census 1851
ed. D.W. Busby, in Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, 54 (1975)

Buckinghamshire

 Buckinghamshire Returns of the Census of Religious Worship 1851
ed. E. Legg, Buckinghamshire Record Society, 27 (1991)

Derbyshire

The Derbyshire Returns to the 1851 Religious Census
ed. M. Tranter with D. A. Barton and P. S. Ell, Derbyshire Record Society, 23 (1995)

Devon

 Devon in the Religious Census of 1851
ed. M. J. L. Wickes (privately published, 1990).
[This edition omits information on Church of England endowments]

Hampshire

 The Religious Census of Hampshire 1851
ed. J. A. Vickers, Hampshire Record Series (1993)

Hertfordshire

 Religion in Hertfordshire 1847 to 1851
ed. J. Burg, Hertfordshire Record Society (1995).
[Includes also a survey by William Upton, 1847]

Lincolnshire

 Lincolnshire Returns of the Census of Religious Worship 1851
ed. R. W. Ambler, Lincoln Record Society 72 (1979)

Norfolk

 Religious Worship in Norfolk: The 1851 Census of Accommodation and Attendance at Worship
ed J. Ede and N. Virgoe, Norfolk Record Society vol LXII, 1998

Nottinghamshire

 Religion in Victorian Nottinghamshire The Religious Census of 1851
ed. M. Watts, University of Nottingham Centre for Local History Record Series No. 7, 2 vols. (1988)

Oxfordshire

 Church and Chapel in Oxfordshire 1851
ed. K. Tiller, Oxfordshire Record Society 55 (1987)

Surrey

 The 1851 Religious Census: Surrey
transcribed by C. Webb and ed D. Robinson, Surrey Record Society vol XXXV, 1997

Sussex

 The Religious Census of Sussex 1851
ed. J. A. Vickers, Sussex Record Society 75 (1989)

Wales and Monmouthshire

 The Religious Census of 1851. A Calendar of the Returns relating to Wales
Vol 1. South Wales, ed. I. G. Jones (1976);
Vol 2. North Wales, ed. I. G. Jones and D. Williams (1981).
University of Wales Press, Cardiff

The returns for non-metropolitan Surrey and Kent and for Sussex, Hampshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and Somerset are tabulated and studied in B. P. Coleman, 'Southern England in the religious census of 1851', Southern History, 5 (1983).