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	Glastonbury Twelve Hides	List for Somerset AncC

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]
Glastonbury Twelve Hides Hundred Total	24,610	1,149	1,318	7	38	787	276	255	3,208	3,158	6,366	1,557	232	167	602	6	396	31	61	49	13	7	237
Wedmore CP/AP	9,540	701	724	8	32	522	131	71	1,774	1,783	3,557	990	170	35	435	0	181	13	78	45	33	9	147
Baltonsborough Ch/CP	2,700	124	142	3	6	86	41	15	345	330	675	183	12	26	63	0	61	3	11	4	3	5	17
West Bradley Ch/CP	300	20	25	0	0	21	4	0	68	64	132	27	3	0	20	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	3
Glastonbury AP/CP	7,950	553	645	2	26	286	168	191	1,504	1,480	2,984	710	108	87	234	6	218	22	7	21	7	2	112
Meare CP/AP	7,820	231	256	0	6	217	34	5	654	642	1,296	314	55	29	169	0	51	4	3	2	1	0	52
Nyland Cum Batcombe CP/AP	590	7	7	0	0	5	0	2	29	23	52	14	5	0	8	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	5
West Pennard Ch/CP	3,270	154	180	2	0	120	21	39	454	466	920	223	29	12	80	0	40	2	40	18	2	0	30
North Wootton Ch/CP	1,980	60	63	0	0	52	8	3	154	153	307	86	20	13	28	0	22	0	0	3	0	0	18
Pilton CP/AP	4,760	229	248	0	6	140	53	55	536	582	1,118	282	22	24	137	1	56	10	15	13	4	2	37

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.