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	Shropshire	List for England Dep

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]
Shropshire AncC Total	864,360	42,633	46,427	253	1,415	17,096	16,210	13,121	111,017	111,921	222,938	56,474	3,832	2,139	17,296	1,353	14,461	1,948	11,585	2,800	1,060	500	11,371
North Bradford Hundred	112,410	5,131	5,438	21	126	2,751	1,636	1,051	13,149	13,718	26,867	6,599	544	326	2,643	33	1,754	210	419	535	135	65	1,619
South Bradford Hundred	85,400	7,301	8,028	26	201	1,819	4,575	1,634	19,208	18,774	37,982	9,635	349	150	1,929	122	2,213	214	4,083	434	141	60	1,320
Brimstree Hundred	60,690	4,087	4,734	44	187	1,520	1,861	1,353	10,544	10,521	21,065	4,856	362	124	1,483	486	1,150	165	865	137	84	29	780
Chirbury Hundred	26,890	749	850	7	17	444	148	258	2,218	1,994	4,212	1,041	117	104	410	13	160	8	190	37	2	0	234
Condover Hundred	42,110	1,061	1,153	2	29	743	239	171	3,051	2,859	5,910	1,628	166	116	806	13	283	43	82	76	43	19	351
Ford Hundred	39,000	1,291	1,412	1	50	664	282	466	3,517	3,381	6,898	1,792	177	56	694	2	368	31	325	96	43	17	359
Munslow Hundred	84,500	1,949	2,075	15	31	1,395	426	254	5,277	5,090	10,367	2,721	286	233	1,386	16	460	51	130	111	48	10	634
Oswestry Hundred	62,580	3,610	3,868	14	103	1,890	1,132	846	9,351	9,674	19,025	4,808	409	309	1,681	23	1,138	124	884	142	98	82	1,031
Overs Hundred	19,110	533	560	2	16	327	99	134	1,407	1,360	2,767	708	88	31	288	1	116	15	131	33	5	1	139
Pimhill Hundred	64,460	2,209	2,325	8	19	1,215	638	472	6,207	6,108	12,315	3,359	333	120	1,415	17	853	90	285	185	61	16	878
Purslow Hundred	105,930	2,266	2,428	10	55	1,520	535	373	6,181	5,952	12,133	3,121	363	186	1,480	4	686	84	166	119	33	23	697
Stottesden Hundred	87,290	2,290	2,420	6	111	1,352	522	546	6,059	5,860	11,919	3,229	319	189	1,349	2	627	75	429	150	89	40	584
Bridgnorth Borough	3,500	1,113	1,262	8	44	56	100	1,106	2,555	2,743	5,298	1,313	14	7	189	90	477	106	322	59	49	27	306
Ludlow Borough	280	909	1,119	10	56	0	490	629	2,428	2,825	5,253	1,346	0	4	8	17	705	238	317	32	25	15	387
Shrewsbury Borough	14,680	4,057	4,509	46	177	398	1,862	2,249	10,018	11,279	21,297	5,454	80	49	593	103	2,259	360	1,488	365	157	73	1,279
Shrewsbury Liberty	9,940	435	448	2	7	323	82	43	1,089	1,106	2,195	550	63	26	288	1	87	9	34	34	8	13	155
Wenlock Liberty/Fh	45,590	3,642	3,798	31	186	679	1,583	1,536	8,758	8,677	17,435	4,314	162	109	654	410	1,125	125	1,435	255	39	10	618

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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.