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 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]
Oswestry Hundred Total	62,580	3,610	3,868	14	103	1,890	1,132	846	9,351	9,674	19,025	4,808	409	309	1,681	23	1,138	124	884	142	98	82	1,031
West Felton CP/AP	6,160	166	205	1	3	167	34	4	548	545	1,093	296	41	18	166	1	45	5	5	1	14	10	91
Halston ExP/CP	800	2	2	0	0	2	0	0	9	8	17	5	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Kinnerley AP/CP	8,070	225	264	0	5	160	53	51	581	577	1,158	296	32	18	110	0	57	1	68	7	3	3	56
Knockin AP/CP	450	45	57	1	0	24	11	22	160	151	311	74	9	0	27	1	25	1	6	4	1	4	28
Llanyblodwel AP/CP	2,820	162	186	1	0	136	25	25	446	469	915	248	31	19	102	2	54	2	23	13	2	5	64
Llansilin AP/CP	4,320	332	364	0	0	228	78	58	1,018	933	1,951	514	77	47	219	9	101	7	29	24	1	0	145
Llanymynech CP/AP	1,530	189	205	3	3	78	30	97	456	431	887	239	28	2	70	0	35	8	92	2	2	6	49
St Martins AP/CP	4,830	416	423	1	17	169	95	159	1,090	1,009	2,099	521	35	34	155	3	122	14	131	20	7	2	70
Melverley CP/AP	1,560	41	47	0	2	36	5	6	105	111	216	47	6	7	28	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	14
Oswestry AP/CP	13,680	1,654	1,706	6	62	560	690	456	4,058	4,523	8,581	2,105	109	143	475	16	632	83	543	62	42	30	423
Ruyton Xi Towns AP/CP	3,990	186	189	0	0	116	66	7	499	434	933	249	17	8	120	0	72	3	10	14	5	8	66
Selattyn CP/AP	6,150	228	228	1	6	148	59	21	567	575	1,142	277	28	13	136	0	32	4	37	12	15	4	66
Whittington CP/AP	8,220	328	389	0	8	292	65	32	895	893	1,788	480	80	35	288	0	58	4	6	2	7	10	108

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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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.

The system can only hold statistics for units listed in our administrative gazetteer, so some rows from the original table may be missing. Sometimes big low-level units, like urban parishes, were divided between more than one higher-level units, like Registration sub-Districts. This is why some pages will give a higher figure for a lower-level unit: it covers the whole of the lower-level unit, not just the part within the current higher-level unit.

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.