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	Brecknockshire	List for Wales 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]
Brecknockshire AncC Total	-	9,373	9,848	84	540	3,959	2,954	2,935	23,896	23,867	47,763	12,220	1,249	1,156	2,822	551	2,818	351	2,547	522	204	73	2,221
Builth Hundred	-	1,162	1,321	7	27	735	310	276	3,277	3,422	6,699	1,599	238	276	438	19	291	61	74	165	37	6	385
Crucywel Hundred	-	2,192	2,243	24	128	432	514	1,297	5,924	5,252	11,176	3,226	142	174	343	139	652	80	1,537	96	63	22	375
Defynnog Hundred	-	1,688	1,724	19	89	828	460	436	4,330	4,279	8,609	2,021	310	223	626	127	283	27	377	35	13	1	389
Merthyr Hundred	-	622	636	4	27	484	99	53	1,658	1,637	3,295	840	168	141	338	4	131	13	19	26	0	0	191
Pencelli Hundred	-	1,072	1,104	5	78	542	431	131	2,609	2,648	5,257	1,363	203	99	348	236	230	26	143	59	19	10	275
Talgarth Hundred	-	1,566	1,671	18	112	846	531	294	3,774	3,927	7,701	1,928	180	240	634	21	551	49	147	75	31	11	348
Brecon Borough	-	1,071	1,149	7	79	92	609	448	2,324	2,702	5,026	1,243	8	3	95	5	680	95	250	66	41	23	258

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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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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.