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	Ruxley	List for Kent 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]
Ruxley Hundred Total	36,320	2,189	2,505	15	66	1,272	618	615	6,271	6,058	12,329	3,337	171	45	1,613	40	772	181	191	214	110	40	531
Chislehurst CP/AP	4,050	320	366	2	6	165	95	106	1,000	944	1,944	482	14	3	232	0	116	48	48	5	16	9	123
Bexley CP/AP	5,370	601	675	3	18	249	224	202	1,539	1,667	3,206	894	30	9	330	40	227	57	39	132	30	6	113
Chelsfield CP/AP	3,330	127	152	0	4	132	17	3	426	370	796	233	12	6	160	0	43	2	0	10	0	2	25
Sidcup AP/CP	620	52	56	0	1	24	13	19	149	159	308	66	4	3	13	0	19	11	5	1	10	6	36
St Mary Cray Ch/CP	2,220	149	195	0	2	60	59	76	466	439	905	236	21	0	111	0	68	5	16	9	6	0	17
North Cray CP/AP	1,160	56	70	4	4	37	17	16	163	179	342	91	1	4	42	0	20	10	3	3	8	3	24
St Pauls Cray CP/AP	630	81	88	4	3	50	20	18	210	201	411	122	8	2	58	0	31	1	9	11	2	1	22
Cudham CP/AP	5,930	125	134	0	3	117	17	0	346	314	660	185	15	4	129	0	17	2	3	15	0	0	20
Downe CP/Ch	1,380	70	79	0	5	40	20	19	230	191	421	108	5	2	50	0	29	13	3	2	4	0	21
Farnborough CP/Ch	1,420	112	124	0	5	70	32	22	355	283	638	183	7	2	93	0	50	2	21	3	5	3	19
Hayes AP/CP	1,300	91	97	0	5	38	22	37	241	263	504	115	3	6	49	0	27	12	3	3	12	5	36
Keston CP/AP	1,560	76	76	1	5	52	16	8	203	188	391	111	8	0	63	0	22	8	1	2	7	1	13
Knockholt CP/Ch	1,750	93	97	1	2	70	19	8	259	212	471	135	12	3	77	0	24	5	10	0	4	3	19
Orpington CP/AP	3,060	155	199	0	1	119	24	56	426	416	842	225	26	0	118	0	39	3	25	14	0	0	14
West Wickham CP/AP	2,540	101	117	0	2	57	25	35	320	294	614	191	12	1	101	0	42	12	5	6	12	2	43
Chiddingstone AP/CP	3,200	189	239	0	2	181	49	9	645	578	1,223	292	49	9	161	0	65	2	0	0	6	0	44
Hever CP/AP	2,680	73	102	1	3	71	18	13	304	255	559	149	18	8	91	0	14	3	7	7	1	0	23

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.