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 the 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]
North Witchford Hundred Total	78,760	3,427	3,618	30	80	2,282	842	494	8,836	8,887	17,723	4,033	301	206	2,152	0	873	60	184	154	103	150	571
Chatteris CP/AP	15,090	763	803	1	3	518	194	91	2,039	2,138	4,177	941	58	55	522	0	198	17	42	34	15	22	159
Doddington CP/AP	38,240	1,475	1,505	21	45	898	405	202	3,845	3,682	7,527	1,704	139	98	837	0	433	26	63	48	60	57	250
Whittlesey St Mary and St Andrew CP	25,430	1,189	1,310	8	32	866	243	201	2,952	3,067	6,019	1,388	104	53	793	0	242	17	79	72	28	71	162
Ramsey CP/AP	17,660	609	660	3	10	291	188	181	1,545	1,461	3,006	772	42	60	296	0	163	17	144	45	5	5	98
Stanground CP/AP	7,650	259	269	0	6	168	76	25	593	649	1,242	295	21	8	160	0	79	9	10	1	7	2	39

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within North Witchford Hundred:

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1831
Percent in Agriculture	1831
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1831

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.