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]
Reading Hundred Total	37,510	1,875	1,966	15	55	1,220	451	295	4,868	4,596	9,464	2,400	117	32	1,272	7	518	57	186	139	72	43	250
Swallowfield Ch/CP	3,070	222	235	0	3	148	52	35	600	506	1,106	301	37	9	81	0	88	8	41	15	22	16	35
Thatcham AP/CP	12,960	814	820	9	20	376	212	232	1,958	1,954	3,912	948	39	28	416	10	243	15	102	73	22	27	114
Blewbury CP/AP	6,950	197	238	2	2	191	41	6	577	479	1,056	257	22	1	177	0	42	2	2	10	1	2	21
Beenham CP/AP	1,890	87	91	0	3	61	17	13	184	176	360	93	12	0	51	0	18	1	7	2	2	0	11
Bucklebury AP/CP	6,970	261	267	0	7	237	25	5	687	613	1,300	331	19	16	219	4	36	3	13	15	6	3	25
Cholsey CP/AP	5,060	194	207	1	6	146	40	21	513	470	983	261	19	0	164	0	28	20	20	5	5	0	22
Reading St Giles CP/AP	2,640	997	1,086	24	43	123	467	496	2,413	2,699	5,112	1,317	12	13	127	15	465	105	456	86	38	6	325
Reading St Mary CP/AP	1,890	1,427	1,607	22	149	64	832	711	3,100	3,782	6,882	1,526	2	2	90	87	1,165	58	16	29	77	35	451
Pangbourne CP/AP	1,870	130	137	0	4	61	66	10	372	320	692	187	6	0	72	0	86	3	0	6	14	6	16
Stratfield Saye AP/CP	3,860	105	148	0	1	103	25	20	415	393	808	201	21	7	104	0	25	5	10	15	14	16	34
Sulhamstead Abbots AP/CP	3,040	80	87	0	1	42	30	15	213	210	423	115	5	2	50	0	39	0	4	9	6	3	15
Tilehurst CP/AP	5,400	348	367	4	11	230	109	28	960	918	1,878	475	9	2	244	0	125	11	46	22	16	11	41
Stratford Mortimer AP/CP	6,400	226	254	1	8	156	52	46	628	580	1,208	318	20	2	165	0	63	9	17	28	14	3	39
Reading St Lawrence CP/AP	340	746	900	1	42	6	507	387	1,924	2,124	4,048	1,060	1	0	54	46	568	78	223	49	41	23	290
Whitchurch CP/AP	2,070	144	152	0	4	98	36	18	364	381	745	181	9	0	112	0	44	3	6	4	3	0	22

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.