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 the 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]
Grantham Soke Total	25,400	2,072	2,223	10	59	590	919	714	5,216	5,564	10,780	2,697	87	98	567	0	1,228	135	456	85	41	23	581
Belvoir CP/ExP	170	2	12	0	0	2	2	8	53	52	105	36	2	0	6	0	6	1	3	0	18	6	26
Colsterworth AP/CP	3,000	192	194	4	4	72	55	67	446	443	889	238	13	4	80	0	80	9	39	13	0	1	15
Grantham AP/Tn/CP	5,560	1,413	1,535	13	51	141	828	566	3,544	3,883	7,427	1,772	12	14	146	0	1,050	114	368	42	26	17	426
Stoke CP/AP	1,910	19	21	0	0	18	3	0	61	63	124	31	6	0	22	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	7
Barkston AP/CP	2,080	83	92	0	0	73	15	4	188	242	430	89	6	4	59	0	17	3	0	0	0	1	12
Belton CP/AP	3,120	31	31	0	1	15	6	10	75	85	160	43	4	0	20	0	8	1	0	3	7	1	16
Braceby CP/AP	970	21	21	0	0	10	2	9	65	58	123	30	3	6	17	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	5
Denton CP/AP	2,730	100	116	0	3	63	31	22	282	271	553	161	11	5	64	0	42	4	25	8	2	0	35
Great Gonerby AP/CP	2,230	199	202	0	7	130	50	22	439	477	916	225	10	26	103	0	62	7	3	13	1	0	35
Harlaxton CP/AP	2,530	84	93	0	2	38	12	43	184	206	390	110	10	20	29	0	15	0	30	6	0	0	17
Londonthorpe AP/CP	1,520	42	45	0	0	29	10	6	101	86	187	54	5	2	33	0	10	0	4	0	0	1	7
Great Ponton AP/CP	2,930	71	91	0	0	39	35	17	220	226	446	139	8	7	55	0	65	1	0	2	1	0	20
Sapperton Ch/CP/AP	670	12	12	0	1	9	0	3	32	30	62	14	2	1	8	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	4
South Stoke AP/CP/Ch	3,360	59	59	2	0	49	7	3	166	148	314	91	12	11	38	0	13	4	2	6	5	2	28

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Grantham Soke:

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1831
Percent in Agriculture	1831
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1831

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.