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	the Isle of Sheppey	List for Kent AncC

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]
the Isle of Sheppey Liberty Total	18,340	1,716	2,073	14	117	277	814	982	4,833	5,034	9,867	2,165	38	42	436	0	795	80	271	479	24	14	166
Bicknor AP/CP	500	7	7	0	0	6	0	1	22	22	44	12	2	8	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	2
Eastchurch CP/AP	6,220	103	155	1	3	103	34	18	491	360	851	258	14	8	181	0	35	1	12	5	2	0	0
Elmley AP/CP	1,640	3	4	0	0	4	0	0	15	14	29	6	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Leysdown on Sea CP/AP	2,370	30	34	0	0	31	2	1	109	82	191	50	2	0	46	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	4
Minster in Sheppey AP/CP	7,510	1,439	1,704	13	76	132	750	822	3,824	4,159	7,983	1,659	21	30	199	0	732	49	135	472	21	14	141
Queenborough AP/CP	380	138	172	0	38	4	27	141	381	405	786	188	0	4	2	0	26	30	123	2	1	0	21
Warden CP/AP	220	3	4	0	0	3	1	0	13	14	27	4	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0

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.