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	South Petherton	List for Somerset 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]
South Petherton Hundred Total	14,680	1,221	1,359	9	39	851	283	225	3,090	3,177	6,267	1,483	123	58	802	2	291	19	126	49	13	4	126
Buckland St Mary CP/AP	3,120	118	123	2	3	90	22	11	358	288	646	175	18	25	97	0	32	2	0	1	0	0	11
Winsham AP/CP	3,170	151	183	1	9	102	72	9	452	480	932	254	14	6	109	6	91	3	6	17	2	3	14
Barrington CP/AP	1,520	75	89	0	1	60	24	5	239	229	468	99	20	0	55	0	24	0	0	0	0	0	4
Chaffcombe CP/AP	1,160	50	50	0	3	46	4	0	126	117	243	58	4	0	50	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	5
Chillington CP/Ch	830	63	63	0	5	60	3	0	146	165	311	71	6	0	55	0	6	0	0	4	0	0	2
Cricket St Thomas CP/AP	540	18	18	0	0	14	4	0	47	39	86	26	2	0	20	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	5
Cudworth AP/CP	1,070	31	33	1	3	30	3	0	72	74	146	39	6	0	27	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	6
Dowlish Wake CP/AP	680	79	79	0	0	53	20	6	196	184	380	90	6	0	60	0	20	1	0	0	3	0	15
Knowle St Giles CP/Ch	760	19	19	0	0	17	2	0	60	48	108	33	3	2	25	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	4
Lopen Ch/CP	470	107	108	1	0	59	32	17	247	255	502	107	7	7	46	1	12	2	29	0	3	0	5
South Petherton AP/CP	3,410	475	547	6	20	264	101	182	1,115	1,179	2,294	540	39	27	220	1	125	15	88	20	5	3	44
Seavington St Mary AP/CP	880	73	73	0	2	53	14	6	188	178	366	105	7	7	54	0	25	0	6	5	1	1	13
Seavington St Michael CP/AP	940	63	87	0	2	59	24	4	200	197	397	97	9	1	57	0	28	0	0	2	0	0	8
Shepton Beauchamp AP/CP	570	119	137	1	3	96	39	2	291	357	648	143	9	10	89	0	19	0	0	16	0	0	5
Whitestaunton AP/CP	1,850	49	56	0	0	40	13	3	163	155	318	75	5	4	44	0	15	1	3	2	1	0	10

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.