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	Witham	List for Essex 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]
Witham Hundred Total	37,830	2,128	2,346	20	60	1,221	625	500	5,494	5,504	10,998	2,742	175	24	1,375	20	709	97	123	151	68	26	441
Great Leighs CP/AP	3,150	133	143	0	2	103	29	11	410	346	756	192	19	4	115	0	37	3	3	10	1	1	14
Little Leighs CP/AP	1,640	35	36	0	0	29	6	1	101	88	189	53	5	3	36	0	3	1	0	3	2	1	6
Bradwell CP/AP	3,210	53	58	0	0	34	11	13	154	164	318	84	8	2	49	0	9	1	2	11	2	2	7
Great Braxted CP/AP	1,240	90	90	0	0	65	22	3	254	217	471	122	10	0	83	0	22	2	0	0	5	1	15
Little Braxted CP/AP	1,680	19	26	0	0	15	6	5	45	47	92	22	3	0	12	0	6	0	1	0	0	0	5
Little Coggeshall CP/AP	830	84	102	0	1	44	28	30	215	240	455	123	5	0	49	12	36	3	4	12	2	0	14
Cressing AP/CP	2,960	98	108	1	1	73	17	18	281	270	551	122	11	3	80	0	15	1	0	12	0	1	14
Fairstead CP/AP	1,590	55	55	0	0	49	3	3	146	112	258	73	8	2	48	0	5	1	1	8	0	0	6
Faulkbourne AP/CP	750	25	30	0	0	27	1	2	78	83	161	41	4	0	30	0	1	2	0	0	4	3	15
Hatfield Peverel CP/AP	3,830	262	322	1	6	195	82	45	633	680	1,313	320	16	5	187	0	79	5	3	12	13	2	43
Kelvedon AP/CP	3,160	271	286	3	5	109	91	86	725	738	1,463	341	14	2	127	0	119	25	12	26	16	2	84
Black Notley AP/CP	2,370	103	112	3	6	74	20	18	243	243	486	138	9	2	83	8	16	5	2	11	2	0	17
White Notley AP/CP	2,020	85	87	0	4	62	15	10	248	205	453	109	7	2	73	0	21	2	0	3	1	2	13
Rivenhall AP/CP	3,240	136	185	1	3	149	19	17	351	302	653	171	14	0	102	0	24	1	9	19	2	1	25
Terling AP/CP	4,190	182	186	0	8	123	41	22	448	444	892	235	20	4	154	0	36	3	14	4	0	5	18
Ulting AP/CP	1,670	20	31	0	0	30	0	1	79	79	158	32	5	1	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12
Witham AP/CP	3,280	552	565	11	25	103	244	218	1,302	1,433	2,735	673	29	0	194	0	288	46	72	23	21	7	146

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.