the 1901 census is back online. it’s a lot faster than before it collapsed in a heap but the help pages are useless:

England and Wales were divided into a number

of administrative areas known as Counties. On some enumeration pages, the

name of the Borough is given as the Administrative County.

yes, i can work out what an administrative county is. what i want to

know is what my options are. what county naming system was in place in 1901?

i’ve already sussed out that i need to look under both shropshire and salop

for my ancestors fom that county but i can’t find anyone under montgomery or powys just across the welsh border from there. grrrrrr.

also some directory of similarly spelt and misspelt names would come in exceedingly handy.