Vision of Britain | 1851 Census: Religion and Education

1851 Census of Great Britain, Religious Worship and Education. Scotland. Report and Tables, Table B [2] : " Accommodation and Attendance in each of the Counties of Scotland. (Denominational Details)".

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RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS.	Number of Places of Worshop and Sittings		Number Attendants at Public Worshop on Sunday, March 30, 1851			Number of Places open for Worship at each Period of the Day, on Sunday, March 30, 1851; and Number of Sittings thus available
	Places of Worship. [1]	Sittings. [2]	Morning. [3]	Afternoon. [4]	Evening. [5]	Places of Worship open			Sittings
	Places of Worship. [1]	Sittings. [2]	Morning. [3]	Afternoon. [4]	Evening. [5]	Morning. [6]	Afternoon. [7]	Evening. [8]	Morning. [9]	Afternoon. [10]	Evening. [11]
Presbyterian: Established Church	904	529,764	228,757	119,888	20,023	781	404	75	483,857	273,759	48,728
Presbyterian: Reformed Presbyterian Church	37	13,924	6,946	5,930	1,733	33	25	7	12,474	9,701	2,053
Presbyterian: Original Secession Church	30	12,774	5,286	4,611	1,312	29	22	3	12,174	10,334	2,320
Presbyterian: United Presbyterian Church	427	254,024	143,443	131,927	27,762	400	313	83	242,183	203,734	42,110
Presbyterian: Free Church	824	421,787	255,482	173,565	56,646	687	433	174	376,247	264,562	91,225
Presbyterian: Relief Church	2	1,020	220	250	275	2	2	2	1,020	1,020	1,020
Episcopal Church	112	29,867	21,130	9,072	4,200	97	69	24	26,827	20,199	8,692
Independents or Congregationalists	168	58,847	22,131	20,851	14,484	148	107	79	56,597	46,631	26,380
Baptists	100	17,537	7,196	6,045	3,138	82	56	28	16,137	12,222	6,351
Society of Friends	6	1,230	168	122	0	6	4	0	1,230	830	0
Unitarians	5	1,950	690	104	684	5	3	3	1,950	1,100	1,600
Wesleyan Methodists: Original Connexion	61	15,961	6,847	2,173	7,011	50	22	46	15,110	5,272	13,234
Wesleyan Methodists: Primitive Methodists	10	1,890	327	404	715	5	5	9	1,250	1,220	1,560
Wesleyan Methodists: Wesleyan Reformers	1	0	11	0	11	1	0	1	0	0	0
Wesleyan Methodists: Independent Methodists	1	600	190	150	180	1	1	1	600	600	600
Glassites or Sandemanians	6	890	429	554	100	6	6	1	890	890	260
New Church	5	710	211	67	120	4	3	2	630	310	400
Evangelical Union	27	7,371	3,756	4,343	2,093	25	18	16	7,331	6,475	4,006
Isolated Congregations	58	9,023	2,631	1,990	2,924	39	28	31	6,813	4,295	5,158
United Brethren or Moravians	1	200	16	0	55	1	0	1	200	0	200
Campbellites or Rowites	1	80	11	14	0	1	1	0	80	80	0
Roman Catholics	104	41,040	33,377	15,999	11,268	90	34	23	37,182	18,844	13,064
Latter Day Saints or Mormons	20	1,432	1,239	1,164	834	18	16	12	1,412	1,151	1,031
Catholic and Apostolic Church	3	450	272	126	190	3	3	1	450	450	300
Jews	1	67	28	0	7	1	0	1	67	0	67

Comments:

1	The original table includes extensive county-specific footnotes.

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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.

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