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	Axminster	List for Devon 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]
Axminster Hundred Total	51,930	2,648	2,928	24	92	1,300	905	723	6,878	7,061	13,939	3,336	326	131	1,230	3	915	126	315	218	72	43	683
Axminster CP/AP	6,590	522	562	5	33	250	169	143	1,278	1,441	2,719	597	67	32	218	1	167	37	15	33	27	14	160
Axmouth AP/CP	4,280	91	112	3	1	82	16	14	320	326	646	137	20	5	75	0	17	2	5	11	2	0	29
Combpyne AP/CP	1,070	25	25	0	1	19	5	1	77	65	142	38	2	2	24	0	8	0	0	2	0	0	1
Combe Raleigh AP/CP	2,100	53	53	0	2	37	10	6	158	138	296	79	10	2	46	0	13	2	0	3	3	2	22
Honiton CP/AP	2,800	709	808	11	18	23	389	396	1,632	1,877	3,509	771	14	9	26	0	412	58	199	35	18	6	190
Kilmington CP/Ch	1,940	106	116	0	3	59	37	20	267	273	540	145	15	2	73	0	37	2	6	5	5	8	31
Luppitt CP/AP	4,730	139	151	0	4	130	19	2	361	341	702	176	44	0	110	0	17	1	0	4	0	0	46
Membury Ch/CP	4,210	145	172	0	6	116	39	17	460	410	870	217	27	9	120	0	43	0	9	9	0	0	29
Musbury CP/AP	2,660	82	84	0	2	53	16	15	215	203	418	115	18	0	63	0	12	0	14	8	0	0	25
Rousdon AP/CP	190	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	6	4	10	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Thorncombe AP/CP	5,550	264	272	4	8	163	64	45	687	681	1,368	348	33	10	156	0	57	10	47	29	6	7	52
Uplyme AP/CP	2,990	171	205	1	8	93	55	57	498	477	975	233	19	12	110	2	40	10	20	12	8	1	38
Upottery AP/CP	7,800	192	219	0	3	161	52	6	488	452	940	252	45	23	120	0	58	3	0	0	3	5	36
Yarcombe CP/AP	5,020	148	148	0	3	113	34	1	431	373	804	226	11	25	88	0	34	1	0	67	0	0	23
Stockland AP/CP	7,510	341	371	3	16	219	108	44	841	799	1,640	436	52	31	185	0	120	5	12	26	5	14	60

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.