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	Berkshire	List for England Dep

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]
Berkshire AncC Total	472,270	28,032	31,081	234	975	14,147	9,784	7,150	72,553	72,836	145,389	37,084	1,711	458	14,802	521	10,758	1,447	3,708	2,224	1,455	810	6,022
Wallingford Borough	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Reading Borough	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Windsor Borough	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Beynhurst Hundred	13,020	638	687	3	16	340	118	229	1,679	1,745	3,424	865	43	6	387	24	132	28	52	144	49	23	161
Bray Hundred	8,900	703	762	2	28	350	210	202	1,719	1,761	3,480	893	39	26	387	0	253	44	85	34	25	10	126
Charlton Hundred	12,940	573	623	2	8	411	110	102	1,631	1,477	3,108	828	86	22	420	0	163	29	17	30	61	37	111
Compton Hundred	18,190	486	537	1	6	374	94	69	1,340	1,256	2,596	641	39	5	432	0	69	20	29	21	26	52	83
Cookham Hundred	14,330	1,098	1,270	15	41	404	404	462	2,998	3,004	6,002	1,533	44	20	538	0	453	63	213	87	115	61	353
Faircross Hundred	46,130	2,391	2,507	15	56	1,506	552	449	6,039	5,918	11,957	3,001	145	49	1,575	20	673	80	139	188	132	155	481
Faringdon Hundred	9,880	742	872	7	18	491	242	139	2,135	2,072	4,207	1,023	60	28	522	0	270	27	62	36	18	13	183
Ganfield Hundred	17,020	653	705	3	14	513	96	96	1,758	1,653	3,411	891	82	11	499	0	154	21	41	32	51	19	127
Hormer Hundred	21,460	631	712	2	12	582	68	62	1,765	1,558	3,323	876	64	11	651	0	84	11	17	21	17	3	97
Kintbury Eagle Hundred	43,940	1,805	1,964	7	55	1,267	431	266	4,281	4,475	8,756	2,236	171	39	1,201	0	523	77	52	113	60	10	280
Lambourn Hundred	19,400	641	658	2	15	487	121	50	1,621	1,464	3,085	807	37	10	428	0	152	12	14	137	17	10	82
Moreton Hundred	28,700	1,180	1,312	5	19	970	234	108	3,059	2,871	5,930	1,511	102	12	987	0	280	38	24	49	19	12	167
Ock Hundred	28,250	1,321	1,455	6	25	978	254	223	3,298	3,301	6,599	1,740	135	37	1,047	0	290	44	64	72	51	32	217
Reading Hundred	37,510	1,875	1,966	15	55	1,220	451	295	4,868	4,596	9,464	2,400	117	32	1,272	7	518	57	186	139	72	43	250
Ripplesmere Hundred	17,430	975	1,289	22	59	335	870	84	2,832	2,835	5,667	1,560	58	11	401	0	477	29	436	102	46	7	97
Shrivenham Hundred	34,490	898	1,119	7	9	818	156	145	2,699	2,597	5,296	1,319	112	23	764	0	228	24	50	69	49	34	190
Sonning Hundred	21,830	1,087	1,187	11	35	474	463	250	3,070	2,765	5,835	1,527	85	34	487	1	509	38	125	146	102	75	220
Theale Hundred	26,690	1,105	1,222	3	29	830	230	162	3,034	2,806	5,840	1,493	91	17	846	0	264	56	63	84	72	41	207
Wantage Hundred	28,160	1,570	1,680	9	42	895	575	210	3,804	3,757	7,561	1,937	115	25	901	68	548	61	63	103	53	21	248
Wargrave Hundred	11,220	608	683	6	34	417	135	131	1,711	1,658	3,369	866	43	26	441	0	188	64	19	40	45	10	144
Abingdon Borough	340	1,139	1,191	8	45	116	694	381	2,559	2,700	5,259	1,331	4	0	134	227	585	65	243	58	15	6	179
Newbury AD_Town/Borough	1,820	1,256	1,269	2	72	30	623	616	2,856	3,103	5,959	1,505	9	3	37	22	783	66	443	112	30	6	227
Reading Borough	2,080	3,081	3,502	46	226	139	1,796	1,567	7,206	8,389	15,595	3,781	10	8	204	148	2,189	234	686	154	148	64	1,029
Wallingford Borough	370	476	542	2	20	89	304	149	1,186	1,377	2,563	615	7	0	84	4	298	54	114	25	29	18	157
Windsor Borough	8,170	1,100	1,367	33	36	111	553	703	3,405	3,698	7,103	1,905	13	3	157	0	675	205	471	228	153	48	606

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.