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	Biggleswade	List for Bedfordshire 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]
Biggleswade Hundred Total	28,265	1,780	1,976	11	23	1,047	517	412	4,859	4,837	9,696	2,334	117	97	1,138	0	503	65	239	133	42	14	284
Astwick CP/AP/Ch	570	14	15	0	0	12	1	2	46	51	97	20	2	1	14	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0
Little Barford CP/AP	1,190	25	27	4	0	26	0	1	90	86	176	36	1	0	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4
Biggleswade CP/AP	4,220	598	644	2	8	137	266	241	1,564	1,662	3,226	722	8	17	191	0	208	30	178	75	15	5	120
Cockayne Hatley CP/AP	1,460	20	20	0	0	16	1	3	57	68	125	27	4	1	16	0	1	1	0	1	3	1	7
Dunton AP/CP	2,840	75	87	0	0	57	5	25	213	200	413	113	12	5	77	0	10	0	1	8	0	0	6
Edworth CP/AP	1,100	24	24	0	0	22	1	1	54	41	95	28	2	0	23	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	4
Everton AP/CP	975	33	44	0	0	40	3	1	106	107	213	57	7	0	40	0	5	0	1	4	0	0	3
Eyeworth AP/CP	1,370	21	24	1	0	23	0	1	71	58	129	41	3	0	37	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
Langford AP/CP	2,100	142	152	0	8	127	24	1	370	356	726	163	10	25	102	0	24	0	0	2	0	2	6
Potton CP/AP	2,200	324	349	2	3	158	131	60	898	870	1,768	410	10	21	174	0	154	15	11	24	1	1	64
Sandy AP/CP	4,010	329	365	1	3	224	54	87	834	783	1,617	412	38	27	212	0	60	17	36	9	13	3	42
Sutton CP/AP	2,470	60	72	0	0	69	3	0	200	186	386	118	10	0	103	0	2	1	2	0	0	0	10
Tempsford AP/CP	2,350	72	114	1	1	93	19	2	258	277	535	123	11	2	63	0	30	2	0	8	7	0	9
Wrestlingworth CP/AP	1,620	93	103	0	0	83	17	3	230	218	448	129	7	5	90	0	13	2	8	1	3	1	8
Tetworth CP/Hmlt	2,180	31	35	0	1	32	1	2	97	86	183	38	7	0	25	0	1	2	1	2	0	0	7

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.