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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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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] |
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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] |
20 Years of Age [21] |
Under 20 Years [22] |
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Dorset AncC Total | 627,220 | 29,303 | 33,614 | 310 | 1,200 | 14,601 | 10,106 | 8,907 | 78,345 | 84,982 | 163,327 | 37,861 | 2,243 | 967 | 14,056 | 722 | 10,568 | 1,624 | 4,451 | 2,476 | 754 | 489 | 5,574 | Coombs Ditch Hundred | 11,520 | 237 | 276 | 1 | 4 | 180 | 48 | 48 | 644 | 662 | 1,306 | 317 | 21 | 5 | 174 | 0 | 56 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 19 | 6 | 65 | Pimperne Hundred | 25,810 | 712 | 846 | 7 | 17 | 611 | 156 | 79 | 1,941 | 2,008 | 3,949 | 1,018 | 66 | 20 | 626 | 2 | 189 | 23 | 22 | 39 | 31 | 18 | 120 | Rushmore Hundred | 840 | 36 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 11 | 1 | 111 | 122 | 233 | 53 | 3 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | Dewlish Liberty | 6,800 | 110 | 148 | 1 | 4 | 64 | 43 | 41 | 297 | 304 | 601 | 153 | 8 | 1 | 72 | 0 | 44 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 16 | Corfe Castle Hundred | 9,860 | 292 | 338 | 0 | 4 | 118 | 70 | 150 | 852 | 860 | 1,712 | 417 | 15 | 4 | 145 | 0 | 86 | 7 | 129 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 39 | Bere Regis Hundred | 9,920 | 393 | 436 | 2 | 2 | 290 | 91 | 55 | 981 | 1,066 | 2,047 | 493 | 33 | 2 | 295 | 2 | 118 | 10 | 5 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 35 | Hundredsbarrow Hundred | 5,710 | 100 | 109 | 0 | 1 | 95 | 5 | 9 | 249 | 275 | 524 | 124 | 9 | 1 | 96 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | Hasilor Hundred | 14,820 | 219 | 245 | 3 | 8 | 140 | 37 | 68 | 631 | 641 | 1,272 | 344 | 21 | 11 | 166 | 0 | 28 | 5 | 88 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 33 | Rowberrow Hundred | 12,640 | 651 | 680 | 8 | 34 | 155 | 124 | 401 | 1,553 | 1,648 | 3,201 | 724 | 20 | 3 | 142 | 0 | 123 | 36 | 369 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 59 | Winfrith Hundred | 20,490 | 445 | 525 | 4 | 4 | 368 | 95 | 62 | 1,247 | 1,335 | 2,582 | 580 | 36 | 30 | 337 | 0 | 115 | 12 | 19 | 11 | 20 | 9 | 57 | Bindon Liberty | 9,640 | 242 | 284 | 0 | 12 | 129 | 51 | 104 | 542 | 555 | 1,097 | 252 | 14 | 4 | 120 | 0 | 56 | 5 | 24 | 28 | 1 | 2 | 22 | Owermoigne Liberty | 4,570 | 73 | 80 | 2 | 0 | 76 | 3 | 1 | 196 | 183 | 379 | 98 | 4 | 2 | 71 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 8 | Stoborough Liberty/Borough | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Beaminster Hundred | 27,390 | 1,539 | 1,584 | 11 | 46 | 783 | 533 | 268 | 3,880 | 4,083 | 7,963 | 1,851 | 161 | 88 | 714 | 108 | 514 | 52 | 109 | 74 | 31 | 28 | 251 | Beaminster Forum and Redhone Hundred | 7,170 | 406 | 430 | 5 | 16 | 195 | 135 | 100 | 1,006 | 1,086 | 2,092 | 479 | 30 | 11 | 215 | 12 | 130 | 17 | 38 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 56 | Eggerton Hundred | 9,090 | 178 | 207 | 3 | 5 | 151 | 29 | 27 | 491 | 542 | 1,033 | 249 | 20 | 9 | 157 | 2 | 36 | 2 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 32 | Godderthorne Hundred | 3,260 | 336 | 381 | 8 | 14 | 111 | 205 | 65 | 836 | 944 | 1,780 | 402 | 20 | 5 | 97 | 59 | 166 | 9 | 18 | 27 | 1 | 2 | 35 | Whitchurch Canonicorum Hundred | 22,610 | 1,244 | 1,378 | 10 | 48 | 817 | 330 | 231 | 3,354 | 3,439 | 6,793 | 1,651 | 143 | 85 | 791 | 6 | 347 | 56 | 78 | 124 | 21 | 37 | 260 | Broadwindsor Liberty | 7,110 | 283 | 304 | 1 | 7 | 165 | 73 | 66 | 769 | 801 | 1,570 | 366 | 41 | 10 | 145 | 15 | 64 | 9 | 30 | 49 | 3 | 4 | 52 | Frampton Liberty | 10,050 | 358 | 392 | 1 | 17 | 169 | 81 | 142 | 844 | 1,008 | 1,852 | 386 | 25 | 4 | 147 | 24 | 57 | 16 | 40 | 66 | 7 | 5 | 56 | Loders and Bothenhampton Liberty | 2,850 | 227 | 260 | 5 | 18 | 148 | 76 | 36 | 593 | 643 | 1,236 | 298 | 30 | 12 | 141 | 0 | 82 | 6 | 11 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 38 | Powerstock Liberty | 3,680 | 182 | 242 | 0 | 5 | 124 | 66 | 52 | 507 | 517 | 1,024 | 266 | 27 | 26 | 101 | 2 | 78 | 2 | 2 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 24 | Buckland Newton Hundred | 12,570 | 279 | 364 | 5 | 8 | 271 | 74 | 19 | 829 | 898 | 1,727 | 418 | 53 | 18 | 237 | 0 | 78 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 60 | Cerne Totbury and Modbury Hundred | 14,600 | 448 | 510 | 2 | 21 | 207 | 173 | 130 | 1,209 | 1,197 | 2,406 | 624 | 36 | 12 | 226 | 20 | 244 | 24 | 27 | 29 | 6 | 10 | 98 | Whiteway Hundred | 13,190 | 426 | 554 | 4 | 14 | 427 | 73 | 54 | 1,214 | 1,332 | 2,546 | 622 | 46 | 17 | 407 | 0 | 88 | 7 | 20 | 25 | 12 | 9 | 65 | Alton Pancras Liberty | 1,370 | 44 | 46 | 2 | 1 | 36 | 6 | 4 | 107 | 103 | 210 | 54 | 6 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | Piddletrenthide Liberty | 7,200 | 172 | 226 | 1 | 5 | 129 | 38 | 59 | 520 | 491 | 1,011 | 273 | 21 | 12 | 163 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 24 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 32 | Sydling St Nicholas Liberty | 4,930 | 140 | 144 | 0 | 7 | 109 | 22 | 13 | 307 | 310 | 617 | 152 | 13 | 2 | 90 | 0 | 28 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 22 | Culliford Tree Hundred | 11,920 | 429 | 461 | 3 | 27 | 261 | 85 | 115 | 1,219 | 1,235 | 2,454 | 628 | 45 | 26 | 289 | 0 | 109 | 27 | 86 | 25 | 21 | 7 | 114 | George Hundred | 15,470 | 435 | 507 | 2 | 14 | 288 | 130 | 89 | 1,166 | 1,183 | 2,349 | 601 | 38 | 7 | 309 | 0 | 166 | 13 | 11 | 43 | 14 | 9 | 83 | Puddletown Hundred | 11,430 | 322 | 369 | 4 | 4 | 251 | 69 | 49 | 878 | 999 | 1,877 | 436 | 31 | 3 | 229 | 0 | 101 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 10 | 16 | 84 | Tollerford Hundred | 14,880 | 482 | 558 | 5 | 10 | 309 | 163 | 86 | 1,355 | 1,296 | 2,651 | 676 | 55 | 17 | 326 | 4 | 186 | 23 | 39 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 91 | Uggscombe Hundred | 24,090 | 761 | 818 | 6 | 14 | 457 | 186 | 175 | 1,963 | 1,993 | 3,956 | 973 | 70 | 45 | 456 | 15 | 186 | 12 | 103 | 81 | 5 | 9 | 113 | Fordington Liberty | 6,310 | 448 | 649 | 14 | 10 | 221 | 178 | 250 | 1,270 | 1,318 | 2,588 | 632 | 27 | 10 | 221 | 19 | 202 | 13 | 81 | 50 | 9 | 2 | 49 | the Isle of Portland Liberty | 2,970 | 546 | 592 | 15 | 64 | 30 | 62 | 500 | 1,312 | 1,358 | 2,670 | 565 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 0 | 121 | 5 | 366 | 43 | 1 | 12 | 31 | Piddlehinton Liberty | 2,780 | 82 | 82 | 0 | 1 | 44 | 16 | 22 | 193 | 210 | 403 | 106 | 8 | 0 | 46 | 0 | 20 | 4 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | Sutton Poyntz Liberty | 2,800 | 120 | 131 | 1 | 5 | 65 | 49 | 17 | 284 | 304 | 588 | 141 | 6 | 6 | 64 | 0 | 54 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 13 | Wabyhouse Liberty | 1,120 | 122 | 132 | 0 | 7 | 70 | 44 | 18 | 301 | 317 | 618 | 159 | 5 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 49 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 24 | Wyke Regis and Elwell Liberty | 1,070 | 217 | 246 | 7 | 42 | 45 | 43 | 158 | 519 | 678 | 1,197 | 227 | 7 | 15 | 29 | 0 | 74 | 27 | 58 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 67 | Badbury Hundred | 30,550 | 1,143 | 1,275 | 8 | 35 | 663 | 343 | 269 | 2,927 | 3,040 | 5,967 | 1,480 | 77 | 47 | 672 | 0 | 439 | 73 | 36 | 99 | 37 | 17 | 199 | Cogdean Hundred | 32,960 | 1,245 | 1,373 | 25 | 51 | 679 | 321 | 373 | 3,038 | 3,285 | 6,323 | 1,551 | 82 | 41 | 611 | 1 | 362 | 75 | 198 | 138 | 43 | 17 | 199 | Cranborne Hundred | 41,000 | 1,180 | 1,309 | 15 | 37 | 827 | 259 | 223 | 3,110 | 3,145 | 6,255 | 1,530 | 109 | 40 | 844 | 0 | 310 | 28 | 77 | 104 | 18 | 18 | 149 | Knowlton Hundred | 5,180 | 165 | 187 | 3 | 1 | 158 | 21 | 8 | 463 | 471 | 934 | 218 | 18 | 5 | 152 | 0 | 23 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 24 | Loosebarrow Hundred | 11,980 | 307 | 324 | 1 | 5 | 217 | 71 | 36 | 796 | 860 | 1,656 | 399 | 18 | 25 | 236 | 0 | 83 | 5 | 22 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 33 | Monkton Up Wimborne Hundred | 4,720 | 64 | 85 | 0 | 4 | 63 | 13 | 9 | 159 | 190 | 349 | 96 | 10 | 0 | 65 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 7 | Sixpenny Hadley Hundred | 16,960 | 691 | 823 | 7 | 11 | 568 | 165 | 90 | 1,865 | 1,975 | 3,840 | 931 | 91 | 13 | 505 | 0 | 199 | 18 | 40 | 54 | 11 | 7 | 76 | Wimborne St Giles Hundred | 3,090 | 81 | 87 | 0 | 2 | 47 | 11 | 29 | 188 | 214 | 402 | 104 | 6 | 1 | 61 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 11 | Shaftesbury Borough | 2,400 | 516 | 560 | 11 | 30 | 72 | 361 | 127 | 1,484 | 1,577 | 3,061 | 711 | 22 | 1 | 90 | 1 | 314 | 41 | 171 | 62 | 9 | 4 | 108 | Gillingham Liberty | 12,000 | 943 | 989 | 10 | 24 | 516 | 296 | 177 | 2,268 | 2,467 | 4,735 | 1,098 | 100 | 29 | 406 | 36 | 219 | 21 | 178 | 102 | 7 | 12 | 97 | Sherborne Hundred | 20,990 | 751 | 916 | 17 | 28 | 653 | 170 | 93 | 3,833 | 4,457 | 8,290 | 1,007 | 118 | 39 | 535 | 9 | 174 | 18 | 59 | 44 | 11 | 3 | 88 | Yetminster Hundred | 9,960 | 318 | 441 | 2 | 14 | 216 | 114 | 111 | 989 | 949 | 1,938 | 492 | 37 | 27 | 219 | 7 | 126 | 8 | 13 | 49 | 6 | 5 | 63 | Halstock Hundred/Liberty | 1,970 | 107 | 112 | 0 | 1 | 64 | 29 | 19 | 269 | 285 | 554 | 148 | 15 | 3 | 73 | 1 | 27 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 20 | Ryme Intrinseca Liberty | 1,300 | 30 | 47 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 9 | 2 | 83 | 88 | 171 | 43 | 3 | 4 | 26 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | Brownshall Hundred | 9,080 | 404 | 416 | 6 | 16 | 185 | 115 | 116 | 1,118 | 1,070 | 2,188 | 497 | 33 | 28 | 147 | 1 | 139 | 9 | 81 | 51 | 8 | 9 | 57 | Redland Hundred | 17,950 | 719 | 827 | 6 | 24 | 515 | 188 | 124 | 1,970 | 2,042 | 4,012 | 1,002 | 125 | 26 | 469 | 29 | 198 | 23 | 59 | 53 | 20 | 11 | 133 | Sturminster Newton Hundred | 12,430 | 846 | 883 | 1 | 27 | 419 | 271 | 193 | 2,057 | 2,092 | 4,149 | 976 | 91 | 46 | 365 | 3 | 281 | 34 | 74 | 58 | 24 | 13 | 136 | Stour Provost Liberty | 2,480 | 170 | 174 | 0 | 4 | 129 | 32 | 13 | 462 | 408 | 870 | 215 | 18 | 17 | 132 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 9 | Blandford Forum AD_Town/Borough | 920 | 522 | 613 | 0 | 6 | 92 | 343 | 178 | 1,406 | 1,703 | 3,109 | 749 | 4 | 1 | 109 | 0 | 452 | 43 | 66 | 49 | 25 | 6 | 154 | Bridport Borough | 250 | 625 | 794 | 10 | 43 | 0 | 478 | 316 | 1,966 | 2,276 | 4,242 | 931 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 260 | 307 | 55 | 250 | 46 | 13 | 36 | 195 | Dorchester Borough | 1,870 | 426 | 558 | 2 | 11 | 27 | 333 | 198 | 1,481 | 1,552 | 3,033 | 877 | 9 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 418 | 70 | 133 | 170 | 51 | 17 | 275 | Lyme Regis Borough | 1,190 | 423 | 542 | 7 | 56 | 33 | 257 | 252 | 1,161 | 1,460 | 2,621 | 596 | 7 | 9 | 26 | 37 | 293 | 68 | 84 | 43 | 29 | 20 | 208 | Sherborne AD_Town/Borough | 4,900 | 762 | 985 | 7 | 15 | 180 | 559 | 246 | 1,809 | 2,266 | 4,075 | 945 | 19 | 10 | 177 | 35 | 446 | 59 | 103 | 84 | 12 | 7 | 172 | Wareham Borough | 4,880 | 494 | 517 | 8 | 23 | 72 | 182 | 263 | 1,066 | 1,259 | 2,325 | 499 | 11 | 6 | 83 | 0 | 238 | 36 | 92 | 28 | 5 | 9 | 84 | Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Borough | 1,510 | 1,320 | 1,769 | 10 | 135 | 19 | 847 | 903 | 3,323 | 4,332 | 7,655 | 1,694 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 698 | 299 | 503 | 89 | 84 | 21 | 548 | Poole AD_Town/CntyOfIt | 170 | 1,315 | 1,426 | 11 | 76 | 6 | 645 | 775 | 2,884 | 3,575 | 6,459 | 1,264 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 675 | 146 | 263 | 125 | 37 | 8 | 292 |
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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.