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	Colyton	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]
Colyton Hundred Total	27,410	1,431	1,538	15	66	725	391	422	3,643	3,731	7,374	1,785	192	93	727	0	430	41	191	86	25	14	275
Branscombe AP/CP	1,750	169	185	3	8	98	48	39	401	428	829	205	18	3	102	0	49	2	11	12	8	0	23
Colyton AP/CP	5,430	436	447	6	20	144	164	139	1,056	1,126	2,182	514	50	27	130	0	201	16	45	34	11	12	88
Cotleigh AP/CP	1,040	47	47	0	2	43	3	1	118	122	240	69	22	0	42	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	28
Farway AP/CP	3,420	68	68	0	2	54	12	2	204	156	360	121	14	11	81	0	12	2	0	1	0	0	22
Northleigh AP/CP	1,450	46	47	0	1	40	7	0	132	108	240	59	12	14	25	0	5	0	3	0	0	0	4
Southleigh CP/AP	2,130	49	60	0	3	52	7	1	168	152	320	80	11	9	48	0	7	0	0	5	0	0	16
Monkton AP/CP	2,090	22	26	1	1	20	6	0	73	47	120	31	7	0	16	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	2
Offwell AP/CP	1,200	80	85	0	3	65	17	3	202	183	385	101	11	7	60	0	19	1	0	3	0	0	17
Seaton and Beer CP/AP	4,120	351	382	5	19	94	83	205	818	985	1,803	377	22	6	95	0	77	19	132	20	6	2	40
Shute Ch/CP	1,940	115	142	0	4	83	30	29	314	303	617	134	15	10	69	0	31	0	0	9	0	0	23
Widworthy AP/CP	2,840	48	49	0	3	32	14	3	157	121	278	94	10	6	59	0	17	0	0	2	0	0	12

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.