GB Historical DB

Parish, Hundred and County-level socio-economic statistics for 1821.

Table ID:
PAR_1821_EW     (1252176)
Contents:
Parish, Hundred and County-level socio-economic statistics for 1821.
Approx. number of rows:
18,125
Table type:
Raw Data
Documentation Author:
Humphrey Southall
Geography:
Reporting units are identified by:
   Ancient County
   Ancient district: Hundreds, etc.
Chronology:
The data are for the single year 1821.

Sources:

  1. These data are a very complete transcription of the first and main table within each of the county sections of the Enumeration Abstract of the 1821 Census, excluding only the extensive footnotes. The only other statistics published from this census are a second table in the Abstract presenting numbers in each age group in each district.
  2. These data were originally computerised by the Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at the Queens' University of Belfast in 2003, with funding from the British Academy held by Ian Gregory and Paul Ell, and passed on by them to the GB Historical GIS. This transcription did not include Wales, and also lacked the totals for Hundreds and counties.
  3. In 2022, Humphrey Southall re-structured the file, added the totals for Hundreds and Counties, and implemented additional checking and matching to the AUO. Restructuring mainly made the Excel transcription more closely resemeble the source. This included a substantial amount of revisions to names, but was not a full proof-reading.
  4. In 2022, Humphrey Southall also added the Welsh counties, using Finereader OCR software. The only organisational difference is that for the Welsh counties the totals for hundreds immediatelt follow the relevant parishes, while for England the hundred totals are grouped at the ends of counties; in the original reports, these totals are dulicated, appearing in bpth locations.

Notes:

  1. Below tghe level of Hundreds/Wapentakes/Boroughs, this table includes data for a wide variety of types of area, as recorded in the area_label column. The commonest patterns are either for most areas within a county to be parishes, or for parishes to be sub-divided into, mainly, Townships and Chapelries. However, many other types of are listed. This transcription retains probably the most important distinction: that subsidiary areas within parishes are indented in below the parish they were part of, a distinction retained in the parish and parish_part columns.

Checking:

  1. When checking and correcting the data, individual cells which were correctly transcribed but led to matching errors in both row and column checksums were altered so that the checksums were correct; i.e. these were assumed to be printing errors. However, in a few cases what were presumably errors of arithmetic by the census clerks create inconsistencies implying errors not just in district but in county and national totals. These were left unaltered.
  2. Two single-row checksums have been computed, covering all columns except the three types of house, and all columns were check-summed by district and county. This work is ongoing, but discrpancies in the original source tables are rare.
  3. At the time of writing, matching to the AUO is ongoing.

Columns within table:

ColumnTypeContents
row_type Text string (max.len.=20). Type of row:
  • Nation (0)
  • County (37)
  • Ancient District (482)
  • Parish (7,217)
  • Parish Part (2,985)
anc_cnty Text string (max.len.=44). Name of the county.
district_name Text string (max.len.=84). Name of the Hundred, Wapentake, Borough within which the current row is located. This is, as far as possible, an exact transcription of the original text, except that where the district is a Hundred, the commonest case, that label is not included.
area_name Text string (max.len.=84). Name of the "Parish, Township or Extra-Parochial Place if it is not indented in the original text. In most cases, these rows are for parishes.
sub_area Text string (max.len.=84). Name of the "Parish," etc if it is indented. In most cases, these rows are for Townships and Chapelries. NB rows should never values in both the area_name and the sub_area columns.
part_of Text string (max.len.=12). Contains 'P' if part of the parish was separately listed under a different district, and otherwise empty.
area_label Text string (max.len.=44). Label appearing after the area name.
anc_dist Text string (max.len.=84). Name of the ancient district, which can be a Hundred, Wapentake, Ward or Borough. This will be empty for counties.
anc_dist_status Text string (max.len.=20). Status of the Ancient District, using the values that appear in rhe AUO: 'Hundred', 'Liberty', 'Wd' (Ward), 'AD_PalS' (Anc.Dist: Palatinate Seat), 'Borough', 'AD_Town' (Anc:Dist: Town). This will be empty for counties or if the row has not been matched at district-level.
parish Text string (max.len.=84). Name of the parish. This will be empty for counties and districts, and for rows which have not yet been matched to the AUO at parish level.
parish_status Text string (max.len.=12). Status of the parish-level unit, derived from area_label but using the status values appearing in the AUO. These are currently limited to 'AP', for all units labelled as parishes, and 'ExP' for all extraparochial areas.
hous_inh Integer number. Houses: Inhabited.
fam_total Integer number. Houses: By how many Families Occupied. Note that this is the total for the three groups of families categorised by occupation.
hous_bldg Integer number. Houses: Building.
hous_uninh Integer number. Houses: Uninhabited.
fam_agric Integer number. Occupations: Families chiefly employed in Agriculture.
fam_trade Integer number. Occupations: Families chiefly employed in Trade, Manufactures, or Handicraft.
fam_other Integer number. Occupations: All other Families occupied not comprized in the two preceding Classes.
tot_male Integer number. Persons: Males.
tot_fem Integer number. Persons: Females.
tot_pop Integer number. Persons: Total of Persons.
anc_cnty_unit Integer number. ID number for the county, as defined in the AUO.
anc_dist_unit Integer number. ID number for the district, as defined in the AUO.
parish_unit Integer number. ID number for the parish, as defined in the AUO.
rec_num Integer number. Sequence number to keep rows in their original order, added on loading the data into GBHDB.