Vision of Ireland | 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	Downton	List for Wiltshire 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]
Downton Hundred Total	23,590	1,358	1,470	12	25	849	339	282	3,264	3,551	6,815	1,639	86	11	845	0	389	29	152	96	31	15	148
Fonthill Bishop CP/AP	2,040	42	43	0	2	39	4	0	100	111	211	55	3	0	43	0	4	0	0	5	0	0	0
Bishopstone CP/AP	2,730	127	144	0	1	120	14	10	307	356	663	166	7	1	120	0	19	1	0	13	5	2	14
Nunton and Bodenham CP/Ch	1,040	60	62	0	2	43	4	15	137	172	309	65	4	2	43	0	4	0	0	3	9	0	17
Downton AP/CP	11,420	693	783	8	14	405	197	181	1,654	1,865	3,519	837	26	8	406	0	210	22	99	59	7	11	60
No Mans Land CP/ExP	0	28	30	2	0	18	0	12	65	68	133	29	0	0	19	0	0	0	8	2	0	0	0
Hindon CP/Ch	270	184	184	0	3	91	71	22	462	459	921	232	12	0	91	0	75	2	37	11	4	0	18
East Knoyle AP/CP	5,320	217	217	2	3	127	48	42	525	503	1,028	248	33	0	118	0	76	4	8	3	6	2	36
Standlynch CP/ExP	770	7	7	0	0	6	1	0	14	17	31	7	1	0	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3

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.

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.