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	Whitchurch Canonicorum	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]
Whitchurch Canonicorum Hundred Total	22,610	1,244	1,378	10	48	817	330	231	3,354	3,439	6,793	1,651	143	85	791	6	347	56	78	124	21	37	260
Axminster CP/AP	6,590	522	562	5	33	250	169	143	1,278	1,441	2,719	597	67	32	218	1	167	37	15	33	27	14	160
Burstock AP/CP	970	46	46	0	1	27	11	8	108	153	261	48	3	0	29	2	7	0	0	7	0	1	10
Catherston Leweston CP/AP	90	4	4	0	0	4	0	0	9	18	27	5	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Charmouth CP/AP	790	119	131	1	3	8	37	86	314	410	724	148	4	1	14	3	53	30	8	26	9	4	65
Chideock Ch/CP	2,240	136	171	1	8	81	37	53	417	421	838	191	13	9	72	1	42	10	22	19	3	2	31
Marshwood Ch/CP	780	110	110	0	2	85	22	3	280	256	536	142	21	8	88	0	19	1	0	5	0	3	19
Pilson CP/AP	2,170	18	18	0	1	13	5	0	52	47	99	24	1	0	18	0	4	0	0	1	0	0	1
Stockland AP/CP	7,510	341	371	3	16	219	108	44	841	799	1,640	436	52	31	185	0	120	5	12	26	5	14	60
Symondsbury AP/CP	3,230	232	237	2	9	132	81	24	551	596	1,147	281	14	0	142	0	58	4	27	32	4	7	32
Whitechurch Canonicorum CP/AP	5,420	244	298	3	13	234	43	21	721	678	1,399	364	41	35	216	0	56	1	9	6	0	6	33
Stanton St Gabriel Ch/CP	1,150	16	17	1	1	15	2	0	52	49	101	20	5	0	12	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	2
Wootton Fitzpaine AP/CP	2,210	83	85	0	0	69	14	2	224	231	455	112	4	6	76	0	17	4	1	4	0	0	8
Bridport CP/AP	250	625	794	10	43	0	478	316	1,966	2,276	4,242	931	0	0	0	260	307	55	250	46	13	36	195
Lyme Regis AP/CP	1,190	423	542	7	56	33	257	252	1,161	1,460	2,621	596	7	9	26	37	293	68	84	43	29	20	208

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.