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	West Medina	List for Hampshire 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]
West Medina Hundred/Liberty Total	42,810	3,281	3,785	12	148	1,073	1,415	1,297	9,619	10,289	19,908	4,522	140	83	1,188	21	1,537	256	824	373	100	44	784
Brixton CP/AP	2,700	55	68	0	3	37	18	13	331	310	641	167	9	2	104	0	30	1	9	12	0	0	14
Brook CP/AP	750	21	26	0	0	12	7	7	63	62	125	39	2	2	26	0	5	2	2	0	0	0	6
Calbourne CP/AP	5,090	137	172	0	0	113	53	6	406	438	844	183	19	11	85	0	42	2	12	5	7	3	36
Carisbrooke AP/CP	8,880	757	874	2	32	269	387	218	2,285	2,428	4,713	1,090	19	20	283	21	347	68	81	243	8	6	139
Chale CP/AP	1,880	98	99	0	4	69	16	14	284	260	544	127	10	3	73	0	16	4	9	12	0	0	11
Freshwater CP/AP	4,760	172	228	3	2	92	41	95	596	588	1,184	272	19	16	82	0	51	10	77	10	7	3	49
Gatcombe CP/AP	1,310	32	46	0	1	37	6	3	129	134	263	62	3	3	38	0	9	4	0	2	3	1	10
Kingston AP/CP	650	9	14	0	0	12	0	2	49	34	83	26	1	1	22	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	5
Mottistone AP/CP	1,070	26	34	0	0	20	0	14	72	70	142	32	4	0	21	0	0	0	5	2	0	0	0
Newport CP/Ch	80	735	862	2	53	0	410	452	1,915	2,166	4,081	975	0	1	0	0	486	70	402	1	15	5	170
St Nicholas CP/Ch	410	43	54	0	3	3	26	25	137	180	317	59	3	0	11	0	22	9	9	0	5	1	36
Northwood AP/CP	4,270	755	841	4	39	140	368	333	2,097	2,394	4,491	897	11	10	160	0	413	64	118	77	44	22	208
Shalfleet CP/AP	5,480	201	202	0	2	166	19	17	541	508	1,049	229	11	4	164	0	32	3	12	3	0	0	26
Shorwell CP/AP	4,060	110	115	0	0	81	26	8	342	357	699	172	23	10	95	0	31	4	8	0	1	0	41
Thorley CP/AP	1,370	26	27	0	0	21	4	2	79	67	146	40	5	0	19	0	9	1	1	1	4	0	9
Yarmouth AP/CP	50	104	123	1	9	1	34	88	293	293	586	152	1	0	5	0	44	14	78	5	5	3	24

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.