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	Wigtownshire	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]
Wigtownshire ScoCnty Total	-	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
Glasserton ScoP	-	219	231	1	12	124	28	79	563	631	1,194	255	35	31	100	10	22	6	42	4	5	2	73
Inch ScoP	-	481	503	5	2	362	83	58	1,164	1,357	2,521	549	84	31	279	24	73	20	21	15	2	0	108
Kirkcolm ScoP	-	349	383	0	6	255	50	78	899	997	1,896	420	46	61	176	12	59	6	32	24	4	0	93
Kirkcowan ScoP	-	265	288	6	9	130	81	77	656	718	1,374	312	28	30	119	22	78	5	4	22	4	0	48
Kirkinner ScoP	-	261	283	2	5	132	39	112	729	785	1,514	339	52	12	124	8	44	13	58	25	3	1	88
Kirkmaiden ScoP	-	392	429	1	5	192	94	143	973	1,078	2,051	456	47	29	190	26	78	10	29	37	10	0	75
Leswalt ScoP	-	448	539	8	24	239	153	147	1,272	1,364	2,636	537	60	46	179	57	124	14	0	56	1	1	90
New Luce ScoP	-	114	117	3	5	59	16	42	306	322	628	181	35	0	31	2	14	3	0	96	0	0	46
Old Luce ScoP	-	371	430	2	4	267	117	46	1,037	1,143	2,180	496	58	27	236	12	110	12	11	18	12	0	118
Mochrum ScoP	-	587	641	2	10	394	65	182	1,076	1,029	2,105	448	75	44	233	3	65	4	13	11	0	0	96
Penninghame ScoP	-	523	557	12	13	147	249	161	1,638	1,823	3,461	812	58	20	159	85	263	57	118	43	9	6	194
Portpatrick ScoP	-	293	422	0	4	58	90	274	1,083	1,156	2,239	505	25	33	163	6	104	13	104	54	3	2	69
Sorbie ScoP	-	239	299	0	2	140	90	69	656	756	1,412	302	22	5	142	17	77	13	15	11	0	0	63
Stoneykirk ScoP	-	552	571	2	1	435	99	37	1,420	1,546	2,966	687	136	72	318	17	103	9	1	30	1	0	137
Stranraer ScoP	-	489	727	3	21	7	433	287	1,456	1,873	3,329	706	1	0	6	77	381	45	85	110	1	0	165
Whithorn ScoP	-	418	586	2	4	102	151	333	1,077	1,338	2,415	535	37	6	125	24	148	7	129	52	7	1	131
Wigtown ScoP	-	403	508	2	6	113	173	222	1,073	1,264	2,337	482	21	40	89	14	176	38	55	48	1	1	69

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.