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	Shirwell	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]
Shirwell Hundred Total	45,790	789	820	6	33	579	149	92	2,103	2,083	4,186	1,094	183	42	517	0	214	20	68	41	9	4	231
Arlington AP/CP	1,890	39	40	0	1	28	10	2	125	110	235	61	13	7	14	0	10	4	2	4	7	3	17
Brendon AP/CP	9,470	50	52	1	4	42	10	0	131	128	259	74	10	6	42	0	10	0	1	5	0	0	18
Challcombe CP/AP	5,450	47	55	0	1	43	12	0	129	111	240	71	15	0	40	0	13	0	3	0	0	0	18
Charles AP/CP	710	62	69	2	4	46	15	8	176	167	343	84	12	6	41	0	19	2	0	4	0	0	12
Countisbury Ch/CP	3,290	31	34	0	1	26	3	5	95	92	187	54	13	0	31	0	6	4	0	0	0	0	19
High Bray AP/CP	4,150	48	48	0	2	38	10	0	150	130	280	71	15	2	33	0	12	1	6	2	0	0	8
Lynton CP/AP	1,530	153	159	2	5	67	38	54	377	415	792	202	21	12	55	0	68	7	29	8	2	1	49
Loxhore AP/CP	1,830	48	50	1	1	43	3	4	130	118	248	69	15	0	40	0	3	0	0	11	0	0	11
Martinhoe AP/CP	2,990	50	50	0	2	47	2	1	112	123	235	62	23	0	36	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	6
Parracombe CP/AP	7,270	74	75	0	1	49	16	10	200	209	409	106	18	5	51	0	24	2	0	6	0	0	19
Shirwell AP/CP	5,110	137	137	0	7	107	24	6	347	341	688	174	17	4	89	0	37	0	27	0	0	0	39
Stoke Rivers CP	2,100	50	51	0	4	43	6	2	131	139	270	66	11	0	45	0	9	0	0	1	0	0	15

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.