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".

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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]
East Lothian ScoCnty Total	-	6,561	8,080	33	388	2,811	2,627	2,642	17,397	18,748	36,145	8,662	308	90	2,870	194	2,581	358	1,645	454	162	64	1,444
Oldhamstocks ScoP	-	146	152	0	2	88	32	32	350	370	720	165	9	0	86	4	30	12	11	4	9	2	44
Fala and Soutra ScoP	-	87	90	1	10	51	19	20	222	215	437	108	8	1	42	3	27	5	18	4	0	0	17
Aberlady ScoP	-	200	231	0	19	112	38	81	479	494	973	224	5	2	130	0	45	5	33	4	0	0	21
Athelstaneford ScoP	-	200	212	0	24	132	46	34	447	484	931	229	12	4	120	2	61	7	7	9	7	1	35
North Berwick ScoP	-	284	415	0	15	175	105	135	853	971	1,824	400	7	2	162	6	122	19	48	27	7	8	96
Bolton ScoP	-	63	65	0	9	47	6	12	168	164	332	91	3	4	63	0	7	7	4	1	2	1	19
Dirleton ScoP	-	264	292	6	17	144	45	103	710	674	1,384	328	19	8	166	11	45	4	52	16	7	8	46
Dunbar ScoP	-	698	1,186	2	31	225	396	565	2,174	2,561	4,735	1,093	21	10	196	26	434	64	234	77	31	9	178
Garvald and Bara ScoP	-	171	184	1	4	133	38	13	437	477	914	209	12	0	114	0	55	5	4	12	7	0	59
Gladsmuir ScoP	-	343	358	0	18	156	57	145	822	836	1,658	391	20	5	157	6	73	10	101	18	1	0	35
Haddington ScoP	-	838	1,308	2	13	230	515	563	2,794	3,089	5,883	1,452	22	26	226	23	667	95	272	86	35	11	315
Humbie ScoP	-	184	190	0	17	123	21	46	437	438	875	228	16	2	131	0	47	5	4	21	2	1	33
Innerwick ScoP	-	191	191	1	14	124	37	30	477	510	987	267	13	2	133	3	67	7	33	2	7	2	46
Morham ScoP	-	50	50	0	5	40	6	4	119	143	262	62	4	0	41	0	10	2	3	1	1	0	16
Ormiston ScoP	-	185	194	1	15	64	38	92	402	436	838	205	11	0	61	3	45	8	55	18	4	5	45
Pencaitland ScoP	-	256	259	2	11	92	29	138	557	609	1,166	283	13	2	101	5	43	11	98	4	6	1	42
Prestonkirk ScoP	-	341	388	0	24	102	141	145	850	915	1,765	423	10	6	121	16	138	15	97	12	8	2	69
Prestonpans ScoP	-	426	514	7	17	50	257	207	1,092	1,230	2,322	473	8	8	41	5	139	24	215	28	5	2	50
Saltoun ScoP	-	158	171	0	5	54	43	74	388	398	786	198	14	0	63	5	52	5	47	9	3	2	30
Spott ScoP	-	127	131	1	4	82	29	20	308	304	612	148	6	0	83	2	37	6	9	4	1	0	18
Stenton ScoP	-	142	151	2	21	92	29	30	320	366	686	170	13	0	106	4	34	2	7	4	0	0	21
Tranent ScoP	-	740	816	3	52	176	598	42	1,765	1,855	3,620	826	34	0	185	45	220	21	256	62	3	4	89
Whitekirk and Tynninghame ScoP	-	217	237	1	13	149	23	65	577	532	1,109	328	11	4	166	3	94	9	24	9	8	2	42
Whittinghame ScoP	-	135	136	4	17	107	20	9	354	361	715	191	10	0	129	2	28	6	5	6	5	0	22
Yester ScoP	-	196	244	0	14	112	78	54	494	525	1,019	258	13	5	84	23	84	9	17	20	3	3	70

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.