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]
Cornwall AncC Total	854,970	53,481	59,816	758	2,538	18,351	13,382	28,083	146,213	154,725	300,938	69,737	4,608	3,613	16,243	107	15,254	2,508	22,706	4,014	684	357	9,221
Penryn Borough	290	598	724	12	44	88	361	275	1,582	1,939	3,521	711	3	20	82	0	379	76	133	14	4	3	128
the East Hundred	124,040	5,508	6,529	32	271	3,117	1,796	1,616	15,630	16,133	31,763	7,660	752	379	2,823	0	1,751	340	1,031	491	93	55	1,193
Kerrier Hundred	103,550	9,178	10,244	136	400	2,478	2,056	5,710	24,361	26,952	51,313	11,566	651	619	2,047	23	2,180	454	4,837	627	128	68	1,661
Lesnewth Hundred	67,000	1,568	1,685	7	65	938	346	401	4,179	4,098	8,277	2,079	300	150	759	8	336	45	289	176	16	24	286
Penwith Hundred	106,840	13,603	14,721	282	673	2,574	2,947	9,200	36,212	38,655	74,867	16,921	625	991	2,052	57	3,477	601	8,113	824	181	116	1,720
Powder Hundred	137,380	11,110	12,255	148	611	3,125	3,075	6,055	30,019	31,892	61,911	14,475	780	545	3,011	12	3,477	512	5,089	910	139	39	1,702
Pyder Hundred	103,300	4,539	4,828	54	155	1,934	834	2,060	12,883	12,806	25,689	6,073	472	298	1,815	4	1,098	117	1,946	296	27	6	677
Stratton Hundred	55,020	1,545	1,744	32	49	1,086	390	268	4,517	4,298	8,815	2,229	330	109	1,040	0	497	45	62	134	12	5	425
Trigg Hundred	63,020	2,371	2,586	26	127	1,173	703	710	6,441	6,616	13,057	3,194	257	186	1,125	0	904	169	379	158	16	5	578
the West Hundred	92,600	3,083	3,525	29	162	1,904	740	881	9,083	9,171	18,254	4,233	437	335	1,541	0	1,003	140	448	272	57	31	647
Launceston Borough	2,180	324	496	5	15	22	267	207	1,030	1,201	2,231	533	4	1	27	3	325	36	76	52	9	5	136
Falmouth AD_Town/Borough	40	652	1,203	7	10	0	228	975	1,858	2,903	4,761	774	0	0	3	0	206	49	436	74	6	3	196

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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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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.