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	Cambridgeshire	List for England 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]
Cambridgeshire AncC Total	536,853	26,685	30,210	162	631	16,093	8,213	5,904	72,031	71,924	143,955	35,715	2,421	1,266	15,698	39	8,792	1,764	3,007	1,882	846	937	5,386
Armingford Hundred	28,751	1,359	1,585	8	22	1,038	345	202	3,817	3,722	7,539	1,862	134	27	1,073	4	409	61	81	54	19	22	229
Chesterton Hundred	16,599	741	898	5	19	561	241	96	2,143	2,025	4,168	1,078	77	76	563	1	196	19	80	62	4	3	136
Cheveley Hundred	12,867	526	643	3	16	364	144	135	1,630	1,609	3,239	815	37	17	398	2	203	15	40	68	35	61	128
Chilford Hundred	21,430	1,063	1,120	7	14	618	286	216	2,675	2,635	5,310	1,348	69	10	686	3	296	45	89	105	45	12	189
Flendish Hundred	11,906	513	600	4	2	458	110	32	1,381	1,397	2,778	670	66	8	404	0	122	10	5	41	14	11	73
Longstow Hundred	25,126	858	1,048	4	23	728	181	139	2,499	2,476	4,975	1,257	118	42	700	0	235	24	66	40	32	30	105
Northstow Hundred	19,999	710	861	11	10	666	126	69	2,077	2,029	4,106	1,021	117	68	525	0	161	11	70	51	18	6	119
Papworth Hundred	26,790	978	1,208	6	13	779	294	135	2,872	2,725	5,597	1,375	140	104	693	0	287	29	10	108	4	3	147
Radfield Hundred	23,550	788	1,049	6	15	769	190	90	2,387	2,424	4,811	1,224	68	16	788	1	209	26	32	42	42	40	148
Staine Hundred	18,397	692	835	2	5	617	153	65	2,159	2,197	4,356	1,065	65	66	543	0	177	18	108	61	27	49	100
Staploe Hundred	39,572	1,982	2,296	13	35	1,355	613	328	5,371	5,244	10,615	2,721	172	119	1,393	11	533	49	273	126	45	55	277
Thriplow Hundred	16,279	916	1,006	6	22	652	210	144	2,402	2,409	4,811	1,167	66	36	657	4	243	31	19	74	37	24	154
Wetherley Hundred	18,559	725	928	7	8	706	147	75	2,257	2,155	4,412	1,087	88	26	725	0	141	20	44	36	7	7	116
Wittlesford Hundred	10,928	592	693	1	17	389	170	134	1,447	1,533	2,980	756	48	16	348	3	176	18	83	38	26	2	82
Ely Hundred	26,940	859	881	5	13	664	173	44	2,246	2,120	4,366	1,047	81	88	676	2	106	7	46	27	14	47	73
Wisbech Hundred	70,790	3,417	3,619	8	93	1,643	1,048	928	8,652	8,612	17,264	4,439	519	124	1,687	4	1,145	157	482	169	152	208	877
North Witchford Hundred	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
South Witchford Hundred	48,660	1,286	1,678	3	12	1,257	284	137	4,000	3,799	7,799	1,927	165	154	1,106	0	304	22	40	77	59	48	180
Cambridge Borough	3,470	4,007	4,322	31	179	253	2,232	1,837	10,143	10,774	20,917	5,358	29	43	256	0	2,475	1,041	868	498	148	118	1,443
Ely AD_City/Borough	17,480	1,246	1,322	2	33	294	424	604	3,037	3,152	6,189	1,465	61	20	325	4	501	101	387	51	15	41	239

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.