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".

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Click on the 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]
Shropham Hundred Total	49,010	1,493	1,760	9	32	1,184	394	182	4,311	4,255	8,566	2,136	197	97	1,165	9	474	28	38	103	25	11	295
Attleborough CP/AP	5,800	372	431	0	4	258	126	47	931	1,008	1,939	446	50	28	204	0	138	6	0	14	6	3	74
Besthorpe AP/CP	2,440	99	99	2	5	89	10	0	251	291	542	123	19	4	81	0	10	0	0	9	0	0	22
Brettenham AP/CP	2,170	9	14	0	0	14	0	0	32	33	65	19	1	0	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Bridgham AP/CP	2,330	37	60	0	1	43	17	0	155	136	291	88	5	5	56	3	14	0	5	0	0	0	10
New Buckenham CP/AP	250	163	170	0	10	56	84	30	382	413	795	192	5	0	61	0	95	5	12	11	3	0	33
Old Buckenham AP/CP	5,520	242	259	4	4	169	46	44	617	584	1,201	322	34	16	156	2	86	5	1	22	0	0	27
Quidenham CP/AP	1,490	12	22	0	0	17	2	3	67	55	122	35	3	0	28	0	3	0	0	1	0	3	10
Great Ellingham CP/AP	2,540	122	181	1	6	125	34	22	446	436	882	220	23	18	113	0	42	5	4	12	3	0	18
Hargham CP/AP	1,010	15	16	0	0	13	0	3	40	37	77	19	2	0	13	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	5
Hockham CP/AP	3,860	98	99	1	0	77	21	1	303	262	565	161	8	2	106	0	37	1	0	5	2	2	19
Illington CP/AP	1,380	8	17	0	0	17	0	0	45	46	91	26	2	0	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Kilverstone CP/AP	2,540	8	8	1	0	7	0	1	17	19	36	12	1	0	9	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	4
Larling CP/AP	1,260	34	44	0	0	31	4	9	116	111	227	51	8	2	29	0	5	1	2	1	3	0	9
Rockland All Saints CP/AP	1,690	51	66	0	0	37	14	15	158	164	322	66	9	7	34	0	10	0	2	4	0	0	10
Rockland St Andrew CP/AP	-	24	29	0	0	23	6	0	72	64	136	35	6	3	20	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	4
Roudham CP/AP	1,730	8	16	0	0	14	1	1	42	31	73	21	2	0	17	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	4
Shropham AP/CP	2,630	98	109	0	2	92	14	3	258	249	507	122	6	9	66	0	15	2	9	13	2	2	14
Snetterton AP/CP	2,280	30	49	0	0	40	9	0	133	114	247	58	4	1	40	3	6	0	0	4	0	0	6
Wilby AP/CP	1,130	12	18	0	0	15	1	2	66	57	123	27	4	0	16	1	0	1	1	4	0	0	4
East Wretham AP/CP	6,960	51	53	0	0	47	5	1	180	145	325	93	5	2	74	0	6	1	0	2	3	1	14
West Wretham CP/AP	-	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Shropham Hundred:

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1831
Percent in Agriculture	1831
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1831

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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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.