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]
Lancashire AncC Total	2,089,516	228,120	260,025	2,842	15,014	24,696	173,693	61,636	649,135	686,465	1,335,600	313,097	6,658	9,714	20,949	97,517	86,079	17,614	60,553	11,222	2,791	1,034	33,509
Amounderness Wap/Hundred	145,110	12,837	13,508	99	733	3,309	8,191	2,008	34,091	35,896	69,987	16,183	982	1,062	2,823	4,265	4,081	724	1,337	777	132	42	2,142
Blackburn Wap/Hundred	175,598	29,509	31,249	77	1,874	3,132	23,469	4,648	82,966	85,091	168,057	37,266	584	2,271	1,931	18,645	6,745	1,051	4,602	1,178	259	105	1,530
Leyland Wap/Hundred	79,990	8,138	8,551	13	518	1,875	5,251	1,425	24,127	24,211	48,338	11,013	582	890	1,286	4,486	1,731	256	1,174	481	127	54	700
Lonsdale Wap/Hundred	1,237,970	8,147	8,445	40	4,309	3,658	2,511	2,276	22,101	22,012	44,113	10,707	1,151	983	3,164	455	2,239	423	1,502	630	160	86	1,971
Salford Hundred	212,170	75,565	83,901	608	3,468	5,685	64,082	14,134	211,337	218,265	429,602	100,023	1,220	2,434	4,980	44,843	19,106	4,417	19,654	2,665	704	259	6,598
West Derby Wap/Hundred	231,008	32,696	36,144	1,124	1,648	6,758	18,194	11,192	95,148	98,981	194,129	45,345	2,089	1,895	6,471	6,400	12,565	3,128	10,341	1,628	828	291	7,402
Lancaster Borough	1,240	1,975	2,173	7	63	62	1,055	1,056	5,471	7,142	12,613	2,707	13	18	53	162	1,076	208	388	754	35	5	613
Liverpool Borough	1,560	25,732	33,178	790	944	126	16,967	16,085	76,626	88,549	165,175	39,231	28	140	69	341	19,127	4,429	13,696	1,194	207	35	8,206
Manchester Borough	1,480	22,445	30,384	53	968	30	23,067	7,287	67,845	74,181	142,026	35,655	1	3	64	11,807	14,261	2,005	6,024	1,255	235	110	2,978
Salford Borough	1,220	7,206	8,504	27	271	45	7,742	717	19,475	21,311	40,786	10,192	5	1	77	3,535	3,670	816	1,605	440	43	10	1,007
Wigan Borough	2,170	3,870	3,988	4	218	16	3,164	808	9,948	10,826	20,774	4,775	3	17	31	2,578	1,478	157	230	220	61	37	362

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.