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	Cheshire	List for England Dep

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]
Cheshire AncC Total	649,050	60,798	64,955	406	2,818	16,440	34,997	13,518	164,133	170,258	334,391	78,940	4,374	4,059	15,094	13,305	22,134	2,626	12,723	3,549	1,076	642	12,147
Broxton Hundred	77,470	2,953	3,123	10	88	2,012	604	507	8,201	8,214	16,415	4,087	461	274	1,955	2	760	103	75	375	82	115	1,324
Bucklow Hundred	107,710	7,849	8,271	36	280	2,944	3,264	2,063	21,631	21,311	42,942	10,718	929	781	2,625	371	2,503	379	2,440	495	195	148	1,849
Eddisbury Hundred	90,000	4,917	5,202	13	104	2,623	1,383	1,196	13,622	13,269	26,891	6,492	581	643	2,148	193	1,570	162	696	405	94	74	1,332
Macclesfield Hundred	150,440	26,385	28,194	203	1,317	3,173	20,838	4,183	71,038	75,440	146,478	33,722	886	1,221	2,827	11,557	9,130	780	5,869	1,208	244	131	2,164
Nantwich Hundred	87,640	4,237	4,520	9	134	2,194	1,406	920	11,447	11,625	23,072	5,510	554	405	1,951	28	1,691	132	420	244	85	47	1,461
Northwich Hundred	69,460	7,065	7,473	26	254	1,638	3,757	2,078	19,022	19,127	38,149	9,044	519	385	1,633	1,091	2,638	281	1,927	428	142	50	1,348
Wirral Hundred	63,320	3,296	3,544	66	253	1,501	1,080	963	9,537	9,563	19,100	4,570	399	313	1,431	3	1,201	279	687	158	99	40	1,409
Chester AD_City/CntyOfIt	3,010	4,096	4,628	43	388	355	2,665	1,608	9,635	11,709	21,344	4,797	45	37	524	60	2,641	510	609	236	135	37	1,260

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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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.