Report
OF THE Made pursuant to an ACT, passed in the Forty-first Year of "An ACT for taking an Account of the Population Ordered to be printed 21st December 1801.
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 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.ABSTRACT
ANSWERS AND RETURNS
His Majesty King GEORGE III.
INTITULED,
"of GREAT BRITAIN, and the Increase or
"Diminution thereof."
Parish Registers.
QUESTIONS
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
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-
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