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	West Lothian	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]
West Lothian ScoCnty Total	-	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
Cramond ScoP	-	274	430	1	20	164	168	98	961	1,023	1,984	472	20	2	189	42	105	24	55	20	15	13	196
Kirkliston ScoP	-	398	461	1	17	141	90	230	1,117	1,148	2,265	528	31	3	132	11	113	16	205	9	8	1	77
Abercorn ScoP	-	172	201	1	2	52	27	122	494	519	1,013	225	31	7	24	0	51	15	49	31	17	14	75
Bathgate ScoP	-	510	806	0	11	136	371	299	1,681	1,912	3,593	846	35	41	100	274	178	36	132	50	0	0	99
Borrowstownness ScoP	-	323	697	3	32	51	318	328	1,228	1,581	2,809	532	18	14	60	37	213	32	124	33	1	0	80
Carriden ScoP	-	184	289	0	12	96	74	119	562	699	1,261	239	7	16	71	3	30	8	93	11	0	0	34
Dalmeny ScoP	-	217	267	0	13	73	44	150	634	657	1,291	301	15	5	93	0	54	14	97	17	6	5	83
Ecclesmachan ScoP	-	53	55	1	3	22	13	20	154	145	299	70	12	1	24	1	13	4	11	4	0	0	23
Livingston ScoP	-	216	216	0	21	96	114	6	516	519	1,035	240	19	3	70	53	83	6	2	4	0	3	60
Queensferry ScoP	-	73	159	0	0	5	59	95	313	371	684	148	1	2	2	6	69	14	37	15	2	1	28
Torphichen ScoP	-	250	277	3	17	61	73	143	621	686	1,307	307	31	24	59	12	67	18	76	14	6	0	57
Uphall ScoP	-	215	248	6	4	51	79	118	623	631	1,254	332	25	1	55	3	104	13	107	14	10	4	59
Whitburn ScoP	-	373	447	1	11	120	167	160	983	1,092	2,075	468	36	39	98	91	99	16	58	31	0	2	7

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.