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	Colchester	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]
Colchester Borough Total	11,770	3,216	3,488	25	119	490	2,079	919	7,471	8,696	16,167	3,745	69	34	530	73	1,738	250	745	225	81	65	798
Colchester All Saints AP/CP	11,770	91	92	0	3	10	32	50	167	271	438	95	2	0	8	0	39	22	5	14	5	8	56
Berechurch AP/CP/Ch	-	18	18	0	0	17	0	1	68	74	142	38	6	0	30	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	18
Colchester St Botolph CP/AP	-	538	552	1	30	55	306	191	1,176	1,384	2,560	588	6	2	33	8	282	40	182	29	6	3	94
Colchester St Giles CP/AP	-	353	401	12	3	80	227	94	770	836	1,606	389	10	0	70	23	205	2	22	54	3	3	37
Greenstead CP/AP	-	131	131	0	6	62	33	36	292	306	598	141	5	6	69	0	23	1	29	8	0	1	8
Colchester St James AP/CP	-	305	305	5	8	6	189	110	667	772	1,439	345	12	8	21	0	177	26	88	3	10	3	57
Colchester St Leonard CP/AP	-	185	232	1	12	6	209	17	483	500	983	264	4	0	6	0	71	12	153	17	1	0	20
Lexden CP/AP	-	245	256	0	10	104	75	77	594	590	1,184	288	8	3	112	0	84	17	33	21	10	4	40
Colchester St Martin AP/CP	-	215	251	1	3	0	251	0	448	587	1,035	228	0	0	11	30	138	21	21	5	2	1	32
Colchester St Mary At the Walls AP/CP	-	215	231	2	9	4	177	50	570	744	1,314	225	0	0	13	1	116	42	7	36	10	20	133
Colchester St Mary Magdalen CP/AP	-	82	106	0	3	11	58	37	214	235	449	86	4	0	8	8	52	0	13	1	0	0	3
Mile End St Michael CP/AP	-	97	106	3	0	90	14	2	247	230	477	144	9	6	104	0	14	2	5	3	1	0	19
Colchester St Nicholas CP/AP	-	206	214	0	3	6	131	77	470	565	1,035	248	0	0	6	0	147	15	75	2	3	5	65
Colchester St Peter CP/AP	-	323	352	0	17	35	228	89	810	1,024	1,834	405	3	9	27	0	212	28	87	15	24	9	124
Colchester St Runwald AP/CP	-	86	105	0	4	4	75	26	226	235	461	120	0	0	4	3	82	5	12	14	0	0	44
Colchester Holy Trinity AP/CP	-	126	136	0	8	0	74	62	269	343	612	141	0	0	8	0	96	17	13	3	4	5	48

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.