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	Whitley	List for Somerset AncC

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]
Whitley Hundred Total	49,640	2,340	2,585	35	61	1,496	597	492	6,388	6,406	12,794	3,221	300	335	1,441	21	645	62	246	106	65	73	449
Chilton Trinity AP/CP	1,250	7	9	0	0	9	0	0	25	24	49	16	5	0	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Ashcott Ch/CP	2,890	135	143	0	2	113	19	11	427	407	834	225	18	14	145	0	33	3	2	2	8	2	26
Blackford CP/Ch	680	21	32	0	2	27	4	1	87	105	192	48	4	0	39	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	6
Butleigh AP/CP	4,670	177	197	1	4	98	57	42	451	501	952	244	21	11	107	0	42	11	36	5	11	10	31
Compton Dundon AP/CP	2,790	134	136	2	6	110	25	1	324	299	623	155	17	38	64	0	25	1	1	6	3	3	15
Cossington CP/AP	1,400	47	57	0	0	36	14	7	123	157	280	73	6	4	24	0	19	5	3	12	0	4	12
Greinton CP/AP	1,140	37	44	0	1	29	7	8	113	106	219	53	4	2	34	0	7	1	0	4	1	3	4
High Ham CP/AP	3,840	201	218	9	5	160	44	14	531	496	1,027	262	20	46	137	0	42	5	1	9	2	2	26
Holford CP/AP	250	40	43	0	0	19	16	8	93	95	188	48	1	2	23	0	17	2	1	1	1	2	5
Holton AP/CP	1,520	40	48	1	1	25	15	8	111	98	209	52	6	2	17	0	18	1	6	2	0	0	6
Middlezoy AP/CP	2,520	124	128	1	1	59	38	31	345	334	679	176	20	12	93	0	38	0	7	6	0	0	20
West Monkton CP/AP	3,410	221	221	1	12	128	64	29	576	579	1,155	283	21	4	163	0	81	8	1	0	5	1	68
Moorlinch CP/AP	8,520	366	457	8	6	231	75	151	1,087	1,105	2,192	579	60	70	209	0	88	10	98	29	15	12	90
Othery AP/CP	2,120	110	117	2	3	94	18	5	281	300	581	117	10	28	56	0	19	1	0	3	0	0	11
Podimore AP/CP	1,130	32	35	0	0	27	3	5	89	86	175	34	4	0	27	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	6
Shapwick CP/AP	3,690	91	99	0	0	74	15	10	227	225	452	115	13	9	62	0	19	3	1	5	3	8	20
Street AP/CP	2,730	167	183	5	5	48	76	59	475	424	899	239	28	20	43	21	82	3	37	2	3	10	33
Walton Ch/CP	1,920	140	150	2	2	71	35	44	361	371	732	185	14	35	54	0	30	0	40	8	4	4	17
Westonzoyland AP/CP	2,180	180	185	1	7	81	57	47	457	480	937	219	22	20	91	0	54	6	10	9	7	10	35
Wheathill AP/CP	330	4	7	0	1	5	2	0	28	28	56	17	1	0	15	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Woolavington AP/CP	1,910	73	85	2	3	61	13	11	202	210	412	97	10	18	38	0	24	1	2	2	2	2	17

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.