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	Sherborne	List for Dorset 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]
Sherborne Hundred Total	20,990	751	916	17	28	653	170	93	3,833	4,457	8,290	1,007	118	39	535	9	174	18	59	44	11	3	88
Beer Hackett AP/CP	450	19	20	0	1	20	0	0	54	56	110	24	9	0	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Bradford Abbas CP/AP	1,810	123	134	5	4	78	50	6	268	327	595	154	9	5	80	1	55	1	2	0	1	0	11
Castleton Ch/CP	30	28	43	0	0	19	15	9	88	98	186	45	1	0	15	2	13	5	5	2	2	0	6
Bishops Caundle AP/CP	2,050	85	95	0	5	52	17	26	179	197	376	89	11	4	35	0	26	3	6	4	0	0	2
Caundle Marsh AP/CP	440	15	15	0	1	12	3	0	38	32	70	19	3	3	4	0	6	0	0	3	0	0	1
Purse Caundle AP/CP	1,610	30	38	0	0	21	4	13	81	99	180	32	4	2	16	0	5	0	0	5	0	0	5
Nether Compton CP/AP	1,390	76	87	0	4	49	30	8	210	205	415	91	5	1	34	4	12	1	27	6	1	0	5
Over Compton AP/CP	1,520	15	25	1	1	22	0	3	64	75	139	33	4	0	27	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	6
Folke AP/CP	1,260	52	53	7	2	41	10	2	129	152	281	69	5	1	35	1	6	2	10	5	4	0	10
Haydon CP/AP	660	21	25	0	0	14	2	9	60	63	123	27	4	2	14	0	2	2	0	3	0	0	3
Holnest Ch/CP	1,970	21	34	0	1	33	0	1	76	83	159	37	6	0	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
Leweston ExP/CP	540	3	3	0	0	0	0	3	9	9	18	5	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	2
Lillington CP/AP	1,620	43	43	0	1	39	1	3	97	108	205	46	10	1	32	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	5
Longburton CP/AP	1,260	60	83	0	3	79	4	0	181	180	361	84	7	3	62	0	12	0	0	0	0	0	4
Lydlinch AP/CP	1,190	60	81	3	0	67	12	2	171	194	365	87	24	0	42	0	12	1	5	3	0	2	10
North Wootton CP/Ch	530	11	17	0	0	16	1	0	38	40	78	21	3	6	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Oborne CP/AP	720	15	23	0	1	15	5	3	46	37	83	31	2	1	17	1	4	0	3	3	0	0	3
Sherborne AP/CP	4,900	762	985	7	15	180	559	246	3,618	4,532	8,150	945	19	10	177	35	446	59	103	84	12	7	172
Thornford CP/AP	890	60	83	1	2	64	14	5	189	194	383	90	9	10	49	0	16	0	0	6	0	0	4
Up Cerne AP/CP	1,050	14	14	0	2	12	2	0	46	42	88	23	2	0	14	0	3	0	1	3	0	0	2

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.