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	Blackburn	List for Lancashire 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]
Blackburn Wap/Hundred Total	175,598	29,509	31,249	77	1,874	3,132	23,469	4,648	82,966	85,091	168,057	37,266	584	2,271	1,931	18,645	6,745	1,051	4,602	1,178	259	105	1,530
Whalley Tn/AP/CP	108,148	17,745	18,639	62	1,184	1,851	13,585	3,203	48,370	49,500	97,870	21,753	354	1,311	1,148	9,760	4,204	600	3,615	618	143	40	883
Ribchester CP/AP/Tn	7,560	730	770	0	24	126	500	144	2,176	2,107	4,283	1,037	27	111	105	410	129	27	26	202	0	5	49
Bury CP/AP/Tn	22,600	8,145	8,966	113	332	595	6,519	1,852	23,703	24,126	47,829	10,918	97	356	369	4,952	2,417	207	2,073	394	53	15	395
Mitton AP/CP	18,540	898	950	2	55	336	487	127	2,774	2,503	5,277	1,253	65	143	297	303	249	78	72	40	6	2	84
Blackburn AP/CP	45,620	10,041	10,793	11	623	909	8,742	1,142	29,227	30,564	59,791	13,040	172	673	520	7,814	2,207	351	856	335	112	58	562
Chipping AP/Ch/CP	8,990	311	327	0	12	134	153	40	929	921	1,850	459	26	83	107	86	100	7	18	30	2	0	34

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.