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	Orkney and Shetland	List for Scotland 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]
Orkney and Shetland ScoCnty Total	-	10,296	11,805	71	211	7,159	1,797	2,849	26,594	31,645	58,239	13,215	815	6,238	1,008	170	1,643	362	1,873	1,097	9	4	2,630
St Andrews ScoP	-	182	182	0	4	124	22	36	408	481	889	200	34	89	32	4	22	2	12	5	0	0	43
Birsay ScoP	-	372	372	0	0	200	54	118	767	885	1,652	377	61	139	12	16	38	4	75	32	0	0	42
Dearness ScoP	-	141	141	0	9	91	13	37	274	387	661	148	14	71	25	2	19	2	13	2	0	0	16
Evie ScoP	-	202	202	2	11	102	30	70	340	499	839	171	28	51	12	12	32	8	7	21	0	0	41
Firth ScoP	-	133	140	2	1	93	30	17	270	290	560	132	3	66	12	0	19	3	22	7	0	0	24
Harray ScoP	-	165	165	2	12	101	52	12	342	393	735	165	0	110	0	7	31	3	2	12	0	0	0
Holm ScoP	-	164	164	2	7	117	17	30	341	406	747	178	39	54	25	8	22	3	18	9	0	0	37
Kirkwall and St Ola ScoP	-	120	124	0	3	89	7	28	305	351	656	145	26	32	47	1	8	14	7	9	1	1	57
Orphir ScoP	-	210	215	0	3	153	17	45	458	538	996	232	5	145	15	2	29	3	33	0	0	0	34
Rendall ScoP	-	120	120	0	3	86	7	27	250	292	542	116	32	47	7	0	10	7	0	13	0	0	34
Sandwick ScoP	-	212	199	0	3	144	18	37	457	516	973	209	10	123	18	4	15	3	2	34	0	0	42
Stenness ScoP	-	131	134	0	0	92	0	42	298	342	640	142	15	70	17	0	6	2	32	0	0	0	24
Stromness ScoP	-	138	143	1	2	117	13	13	292	358	650	139	3	92	19	0	8	4	10	3	0	0	12
Burness ScoP	-	76	81	1	1	69	11	1	203	237	440	110	4	65	2	3	9	2	25	0	0	0	17
Cross ScoP	-	91	101	0	5	82	16	3	250	291	541	128	9	57	15	1	15	4	23	4	0	0	33
Lady ScoP	-	144	151	1	6	106	39	6	401	457	858	200	9	102	20	6	34	4	19	5	1	1	39
Ladykirk ScoP	-	44	53	0	0	30	12	11	143	131	274	65	6	25	14	0	16	1	0	3	0	0	12
St Peters ScoP	-	60	76	6	0	45	9	22	196	218	414	83	6	24	12	0	14	4	17	6	0	0	18
St Nicholas ScoP	-	67	75	0	2	64	8	3	193	190	383	89	8	53	20	0	7	1	0	0	0	0	14
Westray ScoP	-	314	358	0	1	199	55	104	781	921	1,702	384	16	148	75	14	64	4	32	31	0	0	50
Hoy and Graemsay ScoP	-	70	70	0	1	48	0	22	141	180	321	82	0	55	0	0	0	2	25	0	0	0	7
Walls and Flotta ScoP	-	184	208	1	5	74	14	120	486	581	1,067	240	24	40	18	3	31	5	107	12	0	0	39
South Ronaldsay ScoP	-	412	462	8	5	221	107	134	1,074	1,191	2,265	571	34	166	75	7	103	15	131	40	0	0	128
Sandsting ScoP	-	367	374	2	1	321	12	41	1,006	1,188	2,194	523	72	249	14	0	12	5	0	171	0	0	94
Bressay ScoP	-	299	320	2	3	269	8	43	820	879	1,699	408	0	320	0	0	18	6	49	15	0	0	83
Delting ScoP	-	375	405	7	1	339	12	54	962	1,108	2,070	508	10	309	10	0	17	8	65	89	0	0	78
Dunrossness ScoP	-	755	822	4	1	708	18	96	2,037	2,368	4,405	982	7	694	14	2	16	19	161	69	0	0	196
Lerwick ScoP	-	80	80	2	0	70	1	9	215	229	444	122	0	100	0	0	1	1	19	1	0	0	25
Nesting ScoP	-	342	370	0	4	361	5	4	965	1,138	2,103	470	0	415	0	0	16	7	11	21	0	0	85
Northmaven ScoP	-	407	418	4	4	374	8	36	1,091	1,295	2,386	546	19	460	22	0	14	9	1	21	0	0	128
Tingwall ScoP	-	441	519	4	5	361	27	131	1,284	1,513	2,797	591	0	275	0	7	64	26	185	34	0	0	173
Unst ScoP	-	474	491	3	17	369	40	82	1,291	1,618	2,909	683	117	292	117	18	42	5	0	92	0	0	124
Walls and Sandness ScoP	-	389	394	0	0	350	4	40	997	1,146	2,143	522	3	397	4	0	10	6	72	30	0	0	94
Fetlar ScoP	-	284	316	0	21	257	7	52	751	929	1,680	383	81	176	90	0	8	2	0	26	0	0	102
Yell ScoP	-	340	368	1	14	285	52	31	825	987	1,812	407	55	209	80	3	23	8	5	24	0	0	79

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.