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	Chester	List for County Durham 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]
Chester Wd Total	158,060	14,816	19,884	129	621	1,963	6,414	11,507	42,284	46,594	88,878	19,779	538	417	1,895	971	6,650	1,082	6,902	1,176	148	84	2,429
Bedlington AP/CP	8,910	368	459	1	23	85	169	205	1,082	1,038	2,120	527	29	9	72	97	114	23	168	11	4	0	66
Boldon AP/CP	4,760	156	178	1	2	50	45	83	424	431	855	214	15	7	49	0	62	24	38	13	6	5	50
Gateshead AP/CP	3,320	2,317	3,429	43	77	82	1,591	1,756	7,291	7,886	15,177	3,544	16	13	135	438	1,410	209	1,037	265	21	19	435
Jarrow AP/CP	8,640	4,727	6,625	40	209	212	2,063	4,350	12,574	15,421	27,995	5,564	56	29	215	306	2,165	341	2,098	334	20	15	656
Monkwearmouth CP/AP	5,120	1,215	2,317	13	48	61	904	1,352	4,304	5,124	9,428	1,762	20	16	52	69	745	161	620	77	2	0	234
Washington AP/CP	5,130	534	561	0	36	85	46	430	1,313	1,360	2,673	613	18	4	95	4	112	28	328	18	6	2	47
Whitburn CP/AP	4,350	183	224	0	8	54	41	129	462	539	1,001	265	21	15	43	0	64	12	80	21	9	0	68
Chester le Street CP/AP/Ch	31,260	2,824	3,121	13	95	477	688	1,956	7,724	7,754	15,478	3,704	110	68	555	57	842	88	1,781	168	35	20	299
St Oswald AP/CP/Ch	2,690	815	1,436	3	23	198	613	625	2,905	3,393	6,298	1,531	43	37	180	64	708	128	267	77	27	9	324
Edmondbyers CP/AP	15,260	161	174	0	1	33	7	134	491	504	995	235	19	32	60	0	19	11	86	8	0	0	30
Kimblesworth CP/AP/ExP	690	5	6	0	0	5	0	1	16	20	36	9	2	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	5
Lanchester AP/CP	41,890	929	1,023	6	32	434	268	321	2,604	2,472	5,076	1,313	120	129	356	0	307	81	227	80	13	4	224
Muggleswick AP/CP	11,480	51	56	0	1	37	4	15	162	136	298	77	11	16	23	0	9	0	14	4	0	0	13
Ryton AP/CP	12,420	1,164	1,351	11	25	258	473	620	3,353	3,215	6,568	1,672	69	61	194	3	661	61	500	108	15	10	175
Whickham AP/CP	5,730	676	871	0	67	98	181	592	1,865	1,983	3,848	937	29	18	85	0	243	52	383	105	22	5	133
Witton Gilbert AP/CP	3,150	90	93	1	3	57	26	10	203	214	417	105	10	10	30	0	33	2	13	7	0	4	22

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.