Vision of Britain | 1831 Census: Abstract of answers

1831 Census of Great Britain, Abstract of answers (Sample Report Title: Abstracts of the Answers and Returns Made pursuant to an Act, passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George IV, Intituled, "An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain, and the Increase or Diminution thereof." Enumeration Abstract.), Table [1] : " Population Abstract".

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Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Area	Houses				Occupations			Persons				Agriculture			Employed in Manufacture, or in making Manufacturing Machinery. [16]	Employed in Retail Trade, or in Handicrafts as Masters or Workmen. [17]	Capitalists, Bankers, Professional and other Educated Men. [18]	Labourers employed in Labour not Agricultural [19]	Other Males 20 Years of Age (except Servants) [20]	Male Servants		Female Servants [23]
	English Statute Acres [1]	Inhabited [2]	Families [3]	Building [4]	Uninhabited [5]	Families chiefly employed in Agriculture [6]	Families chiefly employed in Trade, Manufactures, and Handicraft [7]	All other Families not comprised in the two preceding Classes [8]	Males [9]	Females [10]	Total of Persons [11]	Males Twenty Years of Age [12]	Occupiers employing Labourers. [13]	Occupiers not employing Labourers. [14]	Labourers employed in Agriculture. [15]				Labourers employed in Labour not Agricultural [19]	Other Males 20 Years of Age (except Servants) [20]	20 Years of Age [21]	Under 20 Years [22]	Female Servants [23]
Norton Ferris Hundred Total	18,730	937	1,137	2	35	510	333	294	2,473	2,619	5,092	1,255	106	55	468	41	335	65	81	87	17	7	176
Bratton Seymour AP/CP	1,170	14	16	0	0	16	0	0	31	28	59	16	4	0	10	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Charlton Musgrove AP/CP	2,180	75	91	1	3	55	15	21	220	195	415	112	16	9	60	0	15	3	8	1	0	0	16
Cucklington CP/AP	1,780	55	59	0	1	44	7	8	139	141	280	71	12	7	33	0	9	1	0	7	2	0	10
Kilmington CP/AP	2,750	124	156	0	5	93	37	26	269	311	580	152	7	1	93	0	40	1	3	6	1	0	17
Maiden Bradley With Yarnfield AP/CP	4,410	113	130	0	0	92	25	13	312	347	659	159	17	0	89	0	31	6	5	11	0	2	20
Penselwood AP/CP	1,030	61	82	0	4	43	29	10	183	178	361	88	11	23	13	3	27	1	3	5	2	0	5
Shepton Montague CP/AP	2,350	65	94	0	0	62	14	18	235	217	452	105	10	4	72	0	14	1	0	2	2	1	14
Stoke Trister AP/CP	1,090	67	100	0	2	42	24	34	201	227	428	112	11	0	50	6	29	1	0	14	1	0	10
Stourton With Gasper CP/AP	3,550	132	147	0	1	93	32	22	312	341	653	155	13	5	77	2	24	9	8	8	9	1	24
Wincanton AP/CP	3,860	405	448	1	19	88	192	168	996	1,127	2,123	504	26	8	87	30	190	53	61	41	8	5	94

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Norton Ferris Hundred:

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1831
Percent in Agriculture	1831
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1831

Comments:

1	This transcription also includes sub-parish units, but as they have not been systematically added to the auo they are not included in the material copied into the g_data table.

This website does not try to provide an exact replica of the original printed census tables, which often had thousands of rows and far more columns than will fit on our web pages. Instead, we let you drill down from national totals to the most detailed data available. The column headings are those that appeared in the original printed report. The numbers presented here, which are the same ones we use to create statistical maps and graphs, come from the census table and have usually been carefully checked.

The system can only hold statistics for units listed in our administrative gazetteer, so some rows from the original table may be missing. Sometimes big low-level units, like urban parishes, were divided between more than one higher-level units, like Registration sub-Districts. This is why some pages will give a higher figure for a lower-level unit: it covers the whole of the lower-level unit, not just the part within the current higher-level unit.

Acknowledgments:

We are grateful to the following contributors. If you make use of the data in your own work, please follow any instructions given here on acknowledgment and re-use.

David Allan Gatley (School of Social Sciences, University of Staffordshire). Role: transcriber. Restrictions on use: the contributor must be acknowledged but the data may be freely used for non-commercial purposes.