The purpose of this study was to transcribe and code the surviving enumerators' returns from the Irish census of 1851, and to analyse this data in order to gain evidence about the demographic and social structure of parts of County Antrim during the mid-nineteenth century. Variables Details of residence, name, age, marital status, date of marriage, literacy, occupation, birth place; absent family members; those members of the family who died between 1841 and 1851.