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	Ayrshire	List for Scotland 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]
Ayrshire ScoCnty Total	-	19,001	30,501	105	439	6,967	15,193	8,341	69,717	75,338	145,055	33,089	1,830	1,725	4,858	8,311	8,352	1,223	4,874	1,678	238	103	5,509
Ballantrae ScoP	-	263	299	4	8	152	56	91	769	737	1,506	371	47	32	124	25	53	15	39	35	1	1	78
Barr ScoP	-	175	181	1	14	101	43	37	481	460	941	250	30	16	117	22	33	3	9	16	4	0	60
Colmonell ScoP	-	402	425	3	18	236	86	103	1,090	1,122	2,212	530	57	119	106	29	109	9	74	27	0	0	98
Dailly ScoP	-	314	420	4	15	173	68	179	1,028	1,046	2,074	466	17	20	201	22	83	9	70	36	8	2	71
Girvan ScoP	-	903	1,290	11	10	134	912	244	3,291	3,139	6,430	1,614	38	27	81	1,097	298	25	33	11	4	2	214
Kirkmichael ScoP	-	414	513	0	2	174	266	73	1,327	1,431	2,758	632	36	44	162	213	96	9	33	22	17	1	106
Kirkoswald ScoP	-	341	370	0	6	145	97	128	959	992	1,951	450	73	2	118	61	80	10	65	36	5	8	97
Maybole ScoP	-	798	1,247	4	11	301	792	154	3,134	3,153	6,287	1,534	77	26	360	612	342	53	40	21	3	0	241
Straiton ScoP	-	235	274	2	3	111	63	100	696	681	1,377	340	36	16	109	19	62	6	45	34	13	1	98
Ardrossan ScoP	-	401	711	2	12	65	342	304	1,612	1,882	3,494	802	21	20	99	308	174	30	88	58	4	2	117
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
Dalry ScoP	-	503	747	1	12	208	460	79	1,833	1,906	3,739	927	55	79	170	301	145	30	90	47	10	0	176
Dreghorn ScoP	-	149	162	0	12	85	39	38	419	469	888	209	29	16	81	3	33	8	15	17	7	2	94
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
Fenwick ScoP	-	279	386	0	4	187	145	54	1,005	1,013	2,018	500	55	112	100	80	98	9	28	18	0	0	109
Irvine ScoP	-	673	1,178	0	21	56	498	624	2,330	2,870	5,200	1,109	26	11	40	295	367	117	198	52	3	3	187
Kilbirnie ScoP	-	207	315	1	1	60	207	48	759	782	1,541	378	35	25	67	132	62	12	34	10	1	0	63
West Kilbride ScoP	-	215	310	3	10	112	163	35	849	836	1,685	404	57	16	90	70	86	28	47	7	3	1	95
Kilmarnock ScoP	-	1,578	3,538	6	3	224	2,715	599	8,670	9,423	18,093	4,007	60	108	116	1,262	1,605	129	572	149	6	1	375
Kilmaurs ScoP	-	319	437	0	6	73	164	200	1,020	1,110	2,130	509	31	17	62	93	110	19	157	14	6	7	60
Kilwinning ScoP	-	541	797	3	43	300	481	16	1,821	1,951	3,772	924	186	114	36	145	136	17	199	88	3	0	126
Stevenston ScoP	-	492	810	1	10	26	416	368	1,652	1,892	3,544	803	9	8	28	202	181	28	266	63	18	0	78
Auchinleck ScoP	-	142	320	2	4	98	122	100	842	820	1,662	413	32	50	74	75	68	6	86	18	4	4	105
Ayr ScoP	-	892	1,508	5	2	114	697	697	3,314	4,292	7,606	1,649	34	27	152	132	755	166	241	124	18	13	589
Coylton ScoP	-	222	254	0	4	114	78	62	668	721	1,389	315	46	9	107	5	60	8	55	16	9	3	99
Craigie ScoP	-	123	140	0	2	76	13	51	419	405	824	193	34	27	40	4	15	6	56	9	2	0	75
New Cumnock ScoP	-	348	409	6	3	162	93	154	1,110	1,074	2,184	542	60	34	144	12	97	13	123	59	0	0	163
Old Cumnock ScoP	-	454	566	2	7	163	325	78	1,382	1,381	2,763	639	26	76	113	148	178	16	46	32	4	2	119
Dalmellington ScoP	-	189	234	2	7	71	82	81	529	527	1,056	252	10	6	69	7	69	11	80	0	0	0	39
Dalrymple ScoP	-	161	190	0	8	88	51	51	475	489	964	212	23	12	84	18	43	12	4	14	2	1	52
Dundonald ScoP	-	392	574	3	8	102	175	297	1,503	1,560	3,063	687	22	15	125	23	185	34	246	25	12	1	104
Galston ScoP	-	417	707	3	6	163	415	129	1,808	1,847	3,655	878	53	54	136	348	142	19	87	31	8	1	136
Mauchline ScoP	-	329	440	2	5	99	220	121	1,061	1,171	2,232	521	37	22	95	120	124	32	61	25	5	2	93
Monkton and Prestwick ScoP	-	281	382	1	10	98	209	75	850	968	1,818	373	15	22	70	132	54	7	42	27	4	0	59
Muirkirk ScoP	-	442	576	1	8	55	505	16	1,423	1,393	2,816	694	23	10	67	16	86	16	466	8	2	1	62
Newton upon Ayr ScoP	-	453	871	0	3	4	448	419	1,927	2,093	4,020	876	0	4	0	218	252	31	236	135	0	4	40
Ochiltree ScoP	-	272	320	2	12	121	118	81	739	823	1,562	384	28	34	108	39	102	11	12	43	7	4	128
St Quivox ScoP	-	692	1,146	3	26	162	479	505	2,501	2,788	5,289	1,115	30	0	163	237	355	23	262	44	1	6	81
Riccarton ScoP	-	356	491	3	5	85	198	208	1,250	1,249	2,499	568	40	36	73	78	105	17	180	36	3	2	75
Sorn ScoP	-	483	877	1	6	163	534	180	1,900	2,353	4,253	865	73	27	125	275	218	24	63	50	10	2	112
Stair ScoP	-	98	134	0	5	43	26	65	363	374	737	168	20	10	41	4	23	4	56	8	2	0	40
Symington ScoP	-	148	183	3	7	97	55	31	419	465	884	208	19	28	64	12	43	3	31	8	0	0	31
Tarbolton ScoP	-	367	465	0	18	145	181	139	1,087	1,187	2,274	521	59	73	70	102	83	34	84	12	4	5	116
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

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.