Report

ABSTRACT


OF THE


ANSWERS AND RETURNS


Made pursuant to an ACT, passed in the Forty-first Year of
His Majesty King GEORGE III.


INTITULED,

"An ACT for taking an Account of the Population
"of GREAT BRITAIN, and the Increase or
"Diminution thereof."


Parish Registers.


Ordered to be printed 21st December 1801.


QUESTIONS

TO which, by Directions of an Act passed in the Forty-first Year of the Reign of His Majesty King GEORGE the Third, intituled, An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain] and of the Increase or Diminution thereof, written Answers were to be returned by the Rector, Vicar, Curate, or Officiating Minister, and Overseers of the Poor, or (in Default thereof) by some other, substantial Householder, of every Parish, Township, and Place (including those Places also which are Extra-parochial) in England; and by the School-masters or other Persons appointed under the said Act for every Parish in Scotland; signed by them respectively, and attested upon Oath or Affirmation by the said Overseers, or (in Default thereof) by such other substantial Householders as aforesaid, in England, and by the Schoolmasters or such other Persons as aforesaid in Scotland; for which Purpose they were directed to attend the Justices of the Peace, within their respective Jurisdictions, at such Times and Places as the said Justices of the Peace appointed, on pain of incurring the Penalties imposed by the said Act for every wilful Default or Neglect.

1st. HOW many Inhabited Houses are there in your Parish Township, or Place; by how many Families are they occupied; and, how many Houses therein are Uninhabited?

2d. HOW many Persons (including Children of whatever Age) are there actually found within the Limits of your Parish, Township, or Place, at the Time of taking this Account, distinguishing Males and Females, and exclusive of Men actually serving in His Majesty's Regular Forces or Militia, and exclusive of Seamen either in His Majesty's Service or belonging to Registered Vessels?

3d. WHAT Number of Persons, in your Parish, Township, or Place, are chiefly employed in Agriculture; how many in Trade, Manufactures, or Handicraft; and, how many are not comprized in any of the preceding Classes?

4th. WHAT was the Number of Baptisms and Burials in your Parish, Township, or Place, in the several Years 1700, 1710, 1720, 1730, 1740, 1750, 1760, 1770, 1780 and each subsequent Year, to the 31st Day of December 1800, distinguishing Males from females?

5th. WHAT has been the Number of Marriages in your Parish, Township, or Place, in each Year, from the Year 1754 inclusive to the End .of the Year 1800?

6th. ARE there any Matters which you think it necessary to remark in Explanation of your Answers to any of the preceding Questions?

IN this ABSTRACT are collected the ANSWERS returned to the FOURTH, FIFTH, and SIXTH Questions.
OBSERVATION:

In Cases where the Returns are stated to be in some Years "defective," such Defects have been supplied, in every Instance, by an Average Number of Baptisms, Burials, and Marriages (or of either) taken from the returns of the same Parish, in such of the Years specified in the respective Tables as are immediately preceding and subsequent to such Defect.


County of PAGE County of PAGE
BEDFORD 1 RUTLAND 241
Summary 6 Summary 243
BERKS 7 SALOP 244
Summary 19 Summary 252
BUCKS 20 SOMERSET 253
Summary 25 Summary 273
CAMBRIDGE 27 SOUTHAMPTON 274
Summary 34 Summary 281
CHESTER 35 STAFFORD 282
Summary 39 Summary 287
CORNWALL 40 SUFFOLK 288
Summary 45 Summary 300
CUMBERLAND 46 SURREY 301
Summary 49 Summary 308
DERBY 50 SUSSEX 309
Summary 53 Summary 314
DEVON 54 WARWICK 315
Summary 70 Summary 320
DORSET 71 WESTMORLAND 321
Summary 79 Summary 324
DURHAM 80 WILTS 325
Summary 84 Summary 341
ESSEX 85 WORCESTER 342
Summary 98 Summary 348
GLOUCESTER 99 YORK, East Riding 349
Summary 115 Summary 357
HEREFORD 117 YORK, North Riding 358
Summary 122 Summary 365
HERTFORD 123 YORK, West Riding 366
Summary 128 Summary 372
HUNTINGDON 129 ENGLAND, Summary 373
Summary 132 - -
KENT 133 - -
Summary 144 ANGLESEY 375
LANCASTER 145 Summary 379
Summary 152 BRECON 380
LEICESTER 153 Summary 384
Summary 157 CARDIGAN 385
LINCOLN, Parts of Holland 158 Summary 389
LINCOLN, Parts of Kesteven 160 CARMARTHEN 390
LINCOLN, Parts of Lindsey 165 Summary 394
Summary 175 CARNARVON 395
MIDDLESEX 176 Summary 400
Summary 183 DENBIGH 401
Summary of LONDON and WESTMINSTER 184 Summary 405
MONMOUTH 185 FLINT, Summary 406
Summary 189 GLAMORGAN 407
NORFOLK 190 Summary 416
Summary 207 MERIONETH 417
NORTHAMPTON 208 Summary 420
Summary 219 MONTGOMERY 421
NORTHUMBERLAND 220 Summary 426
Summary 224 PEMBROKE 427
NOTTINGHAM 225 Summary 434
Summary 231 RADNOR 435
OXFORD 232 Summary 438
Summary 240 WALES, Summary 439
APPENDIX:
1. City of LONDON within the Walls 441
2. City of LONDON without the Walls 443
3. Out Parishes 445
4. City and Liberties of WESTMINSTER 446
5. Parishes not within the Bills of Mortality 447
6. Summary of LONDON, WESTMINSTER, SOUTHWARK, &c. 448
SUPPLEMENT, containing a Summary of such Returns as were not received in Time to be inserted in their respective Places 449
FINAL SUMMARY, England and Wales 445
SCOTLAND; Summary of Parishes where Registers have been kept 457