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 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]
Bedfordshire AncC Total	297,652	17,978	20,016	171	324	11,364	5,137	3,515	46,450	49,033	95,483	22,517	1,330	474	11,588	38	5,502	577	1,474	1,037	551	448	2,588
Barford Hundred	26,170	1,152	1,211	2	18	943	213	55	2,862	3,018	5,880	1,333	108	35	811	1	248	22	34	33	41	39	133
Biggleswade Hundred	28,265	1,780	1,976	11	23	1,047	517	412	4,859	4,837	9,696	2,334	117	97	1,138	0	503	65	239	133	42	14	284
Clifton Hundred	18,005	999	1,073	12	17	672	245	156	2,785	2,773	5,558	1,287	135	32	660	0	308	26	58	45	23	24	139
Flitt Hundred	38,760	2,239	2,480	29	30	1,495	554	431	5,901	6,270	12,171	2,797	143	59	1,466	22	644	51	179	144	89	83	285
Manshead Hundred	52,045	4,004	4,456	37	77	2,170	1,411	875	10,259	10,965	21,224	5,052	264	82	2,442	7	1,380	114	401	202	160	132	568
Redbornstoke Hundred	38,037	2,509	2,885	8	56	1,870	646	369	6,475	6,835	13,310	3,101	190	51	1,835	4	668	57	132	134	30	34	254
Stodden Hundred	27,590	1,089	1,196	8	28	873	185	138	2,696	2,815	5,511	1,248	106	49	790	1	216	22	31	59	28	19	109
Willey Hundred	40,460	1,619	1,802	14	22	1,178	385	239	4,199	4,428	8,627	2,078	158	43	1,256	1	397	44	58	74	47	46	236
Wixamtree Hundred	26,100	1,190	1,393	5	4	1,046	189	158	3,212	3,335	6,547	1,610	97	21	1,053	0	233	29	55	68	54	26	145
Bedford Borough	2,220	1,397	1,544	45	49	70	792	682	3,202	3,757	6,959	1,677	12	5	137	2	905	147	287	145	37	31	435

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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.