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]
Renfrewshire ScoCnty Total	-	11,153	28,204	42	786	2,016	21,071	5,117	61,154	72,289	133,443	28,099	770	535	2,012	9,617	8,295	1,259	4,054	1,375	182	67	3,564
Beith ScoP	-	614	1,115	10	9	178	572	365	2,403	2,714	5,117	1,213	43	87	177	428	310	70	48	46	4	4	111
Dunlop ScoP	-	210	226	1	2	128	54	44	519	524	1,043	296	40	61	84	5	80	7	10	9	0	0	94
Cathcart ScoP	-	282	441	1	8	90	147	204	1,145	1,137	2,282	563	36	10	106	118	121	16	105	30	21	3	118
Govan ScoP	-	838	1,109	4	45	162	515	432	2,722	2,955	5,677	1,332	44	11	176	491	246	77	193	50	44	8	237
Gorbals ScoP	-	7,114	7,149	19	276	19	4,906	2,224	16,351	18,843	35,194	7,997	0	11	18	3,540	3,754	65	122	438	49	81	1,202
Eaglesham ScoP	-	242	424	2	2	87	302	35	1,177	1,195	2,372	552	48	17	111	207	90	22	38	19	0	0	87
Eastwood ScoP	-	174	384	0	0	41	319	24	1,114	1,113	2,227	1,684	25	5	228	737	298	37	289	61	4	1	82
Erskine ScoP	-	130	180	1	14	96	38	46	477	496	973	243	43	5	121	3	38	8	13	3	9	3	60
Greenock ScoP	-	2,577	6,353	13	155	122	3,821	2,410	11,973	15,598	27,571	5,600	14	50	63	362	2,949	570	1,245	301	46	17	1,223
Houston and Killellan ScoP	-	238	520	1	2	100	363	57	1,288	1,457	2,745	613	49	26	91	187	148	17	86	6	3	1	99
Inchinnan ScoP	-	89	112	0	7	47	10	55	323	319	642	154	19	11	49	2	14	2	49	3	5	2	37
Inverkip ScoP	-	258	451	1	13	110	114	227	1,014	1,074	2,088	510	19	54	100	15	122	28	101	57	14	3	108
Kilbarchan ScoP	-	462	989	6	3	196	700	93	2,296	2,510	4,806	1,121	58	33	163	577	144	36	59	47	4	0	94
Kilmacolm ScoP	-	227	300	2	6	185	105	10	756	857	1,613	353	89	36	124	13	57	14	9	3	8	0	104
Lochwinnoch ScoP	-	538	905	0	21	262	418	225	2,126	2,389	4,515	1,002	60	106	195	276	193	48	51	65	8	1	148
Mearns ScoP	-	286	456	1	3	149	234	73	1,330	1,484	2,814	686	109	37	106	129	97	15	180	13	0	0	145
Neilston ScoP	-	712	1,518	5	13	165	1,319	34	3,569	4,477	8,046	1,679	77	67	180	624	411	36	204	71	9	1	140
Abbey ScoP	-	1,870	5,306	3	171	157	4,873	276	12,062	13,944	26,006	5,198	76	41	162	2,464	1,211	121	835	265	23	26	407
Paisley ScoP	-	1,826	7,002	2	356	17	6,613	372	14,460	17,000	31,460	6,409	2	13	6	3,583	1,769	173	560	298	5	-	-
Renfrew ScoP	-	97	143	1	0	74	59	10	430	401	831	686	25	4	197	212	103	30	71	23	21	2	77

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.

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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.