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	Scotland	List for Great Britain 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]
Scotland Dep Total	-	369,393	502,301	2,568	12,719	126,591	207,259	168,451	1,114,816	1,250,298	2,365,114	549,821	25,887	53,966	87,292	83,993	152,464	29,203	76,191	34,930	5,895	2,599	109,512
Aberdeenshire ScoCnty	-	29,502	39,930	170	707	13,454	13,808	12,668	82,588	95,069	177,657	42,303	3,591	6,012	9,018	2,294	11,642	1,750	5,107	2,527	362	88	10,759
Argyll ScoCnty	-	17,146	19,252	200	510	9,116	3,241	6,895	49,844	51,129	100,973	23,818	1,274	5,823	5,710	816	3,540	860	3,936	1,746	113	62	3,465
Ayrshire ScoCnty	-	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
Banffshire ScoCnty	-	9,814	10,855	126	266	4,264	2,456	4,135	22,743	25,861	48,604	11,365	922	2,183	2,721	240	2,643	343	1,490	754	69	20	2,948
Berwickshire ScoCnty	-	6,159	7,385	13	267	2,921	1,915	2,549	16,239	17,809	34,048	7,984	433	189	2,851	399	1,994	361	1,107	546	104	60	1,951
Buteshire ScoCnty	-	2,134	2,998	6	38	832	771	1,395	6,495	7,656	14,151	3,107	133	457	358	215	590	152	918	272	12	4	483
Caithness ScoCnty	-	6,036	6,904	90	94	3,580	1,487	1,837	16,359	18,170	34,529	8,270	441	2,408	1,378	88	2,257	223	1,056	400	19	35	1,413
Clackmannanshire ScoCnty	-	2,391	3,352	9	85	385	1,190	1,777	7,095	7,634	14,729	3,484	81	50	393	259	996	219	1,281	173	32	11	475
Dunbartonshire ScoCnty	-	3,785	6,343	42	109	1,099	3,571	1,673	16,321	16,890	33,211	7,851	342	299	1,048	1,998	1,953	319	1,497	337	58	23	1,092
Dumfries Shire ScoCnty	-	12,365	14,096	71	341	4,338	3,788	5,970	34,829	38,941	73,770	16,783	1,241	939	3,927	1,602	4,471	838	2,479	1,159	127	24	4,221
Midlothian ScoCnty	-	19,744	47,415	150	1,109	3,639	21,054	22,722	99,803	119,542	219,345	50,082	665	274	3,637	1,267	23,780	8,257	7,695	3,094	1,413	390	15,474
Moray ScoCnty	-	6,919	7,768	98	226	2,605	2,340	2,823	15,779	18,452	34,231	7,899	560	1,055	1,789	199	2,309	340	985	600	62	45	2,276
Fife ScoCnty	-	20,712	28,864	157	699	4,632	13,907	10,325	60,781	68,058	128,839	29,767	1,038	613	4,434	7,729	7,688	1,361	4,975	1,654	275	90	4,046
Angus ScoCnty	-	19,597	31,730	157	788	4,969	18,276	8,485	65,093	74,513	139,606	32,897	1,089	1,099	4,466	8,574	9,760	1,897	3,721	1,981	310	72	5,889
East Lothian ScoCnty	-	6,561	8,080	33	388	2,811	2,627	2,642	17,397	18,748	36,145	8,662	308	90	2,870	194	2,581	358	1,645	454	162	64	1,444
Inverness Shire ScoCnty	-	17,312	19,046	137	440	9,892	2,753	6,401	44,510	50,287	94,797	21,660	826	7,204	4,251	344	3,189	662	3,009	2,074	101	59	4,072
Kincardineshire ScoCnty	-	6,272	7,136	48	217	2,976	2,281	1,879	15,016	16,415	31,431	7,772	760	816	2,147	726	1,612	225	1,023	378	85	24	2,246
Kinross Shire ScoCnty	-	1,524	2,019	9	43	440	819	760	4,519	4,553	9,072	2,466	114	86	444	562	598	94	433	124	11	15	351
Kirkcudbrightshire ScoCnty	-	6,604	8,283	48	146	2,826	2,293	3,164	18,969	21,621	40,590	9,229	871	490	2,648	529	2,299	440	1,056	805	91	27	2,378
Lanarkshire ScoCnty	-	58,745	64,876	234	2,423	4,504	39,692	20,680	150,229	166,590	316,819	73,670	1,493	1,349	3,803	26,677	24,046	3,569	6,303	5,318	1,112	872	12,893
West Lothian ScoCnty	-	3,400	5,014	21	203	1,093	1,891	2,030	10,995	12,296	23,291	5,224	295	179	952	560	1,547	233	1,100	296	62	39	858
Nairnshire ScoCnty	-	2,074	2,246	21	92	742	487	1,017	4,307	5,047	9,354	2,170	220	354	403	54	532	83	336	162	26	11	518
Orkney and Shetland ScoCnty	-	10,296	11,805	71	211	7,159	1,797	2,849	26,594	31,645	58,239	13,215	815	6,238	1,008	170	1,643	362	1,873	1,097	9	4	2,630
Peebles Shire ScoCnty	-	1,789	2,072	14	58	736	666	670	5,342	5,236	10,578	2,675	216	79	808	173	684	92	460	134	29	15	797
Perthshire ScoCnty	-	23,809	31,749	138	898	7,404	12,815	11,530	68,565	74,329	142,894	35,974	2,482	2,787	6,778	4,942	9,965	1,519	5,204	1,952	345	151	7,054
Renfrewshire ScoCnty	-	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
Ross and Cromarty ScoCnty	-	15,039	16,187	131	352	8,498	2,611	5,078	34,927	39,893	74,820	17,007	639	6,357	2,861	382	2,751	472	2,389	1,086	70	42	2,991
Roxburghshire ScoCnty	-	6,732	8,930	42	226	3,134	2,942	2,854	20,761	22,902	43,663	10,139	545	314	3,058	1,076	3,040	466	900	585	155	76	2,230
Selkirkshire ScoCnty	-	1,094	1,391	3	59	474	450	467	3,394	3,439	6,833	1,667	86	36	499	154	455	79	229	97	32	28	454
Stirlingshire ScoCnty	-	10,459	15,351	55	278	2,362	6,647	6,342	35,283	37,338	72,621	17,436	885	605	2,807	3,376	4,669	709	3,301	932	152	57	2,579
Sutherland ScoCnty	-	4,821	5,005	76	88	3,567	409	1,029	12,090	13,428	25,518	6,035	102	2,834	686	50	664	163	1,038	484	14	7	788
Wigtownshire ScoCnty	-	6,404	7,514	51	133	3,156	2,011	2,347	17,078	19,180	36,258	8,022	820	487	2,669	416	1,919	275	717	656	63	14	1,663

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.