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".

List for top level	Selkirkshire	List for Scotland Dep

click on 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]
Selkirkshire ScoCnty Total	-	1,094	1,391	3	59	474	450	467	3,394	3,439	6,833	1,667	86	36	499	154	455	79	229	97	32	28	454
Stow ScoP	-	284	316	0	11	125	72	119	885	886	1,771	443	39	9	146	10	110	14	94	11	10	3	168
Innerleithen ScoP	-	148	160	1	2	59	33	68	385	425	810	190	12	0	78	12	49	4	27	2	6	1	39
Peebles ScoP	-	455	643	4	15	93	365	185	1,366	1,384	2,750	681	27	3	100	89	262	30	97	65	8	4	141
Galashiels ScoP	-	226	301	0	18	57	178	66	777	757	1,534	364	14	2	70	132	91	14	28	12	1	3	82
Melrose ScoP	-	728	906	4	22	250	361	295	2,096	2,243	4,339	1,014	57	38	232	143	317	67	71	60	29	9	209
Ashkirk ScoP	-	97	102	0	10	74	17	11	317	280	597	164	23	4	79	3	28	5	19	3	0	0	42
Roberton ScoP	-	121	131	0	5	92	13	26	360	370	730	164	19	10	86	2	24	7	6	7	3	1	66
Selkirk ScoP	-	7	7	0	2	7	0	0	27	23	50	689	13	13	169	12	268	50	77	64	23	24	180
Ettrick ScoP	-	88	89	2	8	54	15	20	281	249	530	144	9	2	64	1	23	4	37	1	3	0	37
Yarrow ScoP	-	216	227	1	10	125	37	65	636	585	1,221	314	32	14	123	5	47	5	71	15	2	0	98

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.

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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.