Vision of Ireland | 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 the 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]
West Kingsbury Hundred Total	18,610	2,066	2,459	37	116	881	1,117	461	4,904	5,514	10,418	2,364	134	26	788	295	685	104	136	155	41	17	384
Ash Priors AP/CP	750	41	41	0	1	24	10	7	103	107	210	54	4	0	26	0	13	0	7	4	0	0	5
Bishops Lydeard AP/CP	3,030	218	231	1	11	136	72	23	636	659	1,295	291	31	4	119	0	99	20	0	6	12	0	67
West Buckland CP/Ch	3,500	178	181	2	10	111	49	21	394	399	793	220	19	10	124	11	45	1	0	10	0	0	26
Fitzhead Ch/CP	1,190	69	69	1	2	41	16	12	162	149	311	93	12	1	43	0	32	0	0	5	0	0	0
Wellington AP/CP	4,830	957	1,290	26	51	214	728	348	2,176	2,586	4,762	1,119	30	9	200	258	343	58	119	81	21	3	162
Wiveliscombe AP/CP	5,310	603	647	7	41	355	242	50	1,433	1,614	3,047	587	38	2	276	26	153	25	10	49	8	14	124

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within West Kingsbury Hundred:

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1831
Percent in Agriculture	1831
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1831

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.

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.