Abstract of answers

[RichardB]

Source : http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/census/t...21&max_c=23

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.

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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Area: English Statute Acres [1] 22,830

Houses: Inhabited [2] 18,331

Houses: Families [3] 19,998

Houses: Building [4] 468

Houses: Uninhabited [5] 914

Occupations: Families chiefly employed in Agriculture [6] 443

Occupations: Families chiefly employed in Trade, Manufactures, and Handicraft [7] 14,734

Occupations: All other Families not comprised in the two preceding Classes [8] 4,821

Persons: Males [9] 45,645

Persons: Females [10] 46,047

Persons: Total of Persons [11] 91,692

Persons: Males Twenty Years of Age [12] 23,043

Agriculture: Occupiers employing Labourers. [13] 104

Agriculture: Occupiers not employing Labourers. [14] 128

Agriculture: Labourers employed in Agriculture. [15] 418

Employed in Manufacture, or in making Manufacturing Machinery. [16] 11,526

Employed in Retail Trade, or in Handicrafts as Masters or Workmen. [17] 5,841

Capitalists, Bankers, Professional and other Educated Men. [18] 1,239

Labourers employed in Labour not Agricultural [19] 2,675

Other Males 20 Years of Age (except Servants) [20] 1,013

Male Servants: 20 Years of Age [21] 99

Male Servants: Under 20 Years [22] 185

Female Servants [23] 2,155

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Numbers in square brackets, just relate to the line number i.e. line 1, line 2 etc.

[RichardB]

Sheffield 1851 (I don't quite understand the Acreage changing downwards ???

1851 Census of Great Britain, Population tables 2 (Sample Report Title: Population Tables I. Number of Inhabitants in the years 1801, 1811, 1821, 1831, 1841 and 1851: Report: Objects of census and machinery employed; results and observations; appendix of tabular results, and summary tables: England and Wales, Divisions I to VII. Area, houses, 1841 and 1851; Population, 1801, 1811, 1821, 1831, 1841, and 1851), Table [1]: " Population Abstract".

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Numbers in square brackets, just relate to the line number i.e. line 1, line 2 etc.

Area in Statute Acres [1] 7,080

Houses: 1841: Inhabited [2] 17,056

Houses: 1841: Uninhabited [3] 2,556

Houses: 1841: Building [4] 118

Houses: 1851: Inhabited [5] 20,105

Houses: 1851: Uninhabited [6] 182

Houses: 1851: Building [7] 163

Population: Persons: 1801 [8] 37,625

Population: Persons: 1811 [9] 43,412

Population: Persons: 1821 [10] 51,944

Population: Persons: 1831 [11] 71,720

Population: Persons: 1841 [12] 82,431

Population: Persons: 1851 [13] 100,362

Population: Males: 1801 [14] 18,733

Population: Males: 1811 [15] 21,285

Population: Males: 1821 [16] 25,738

Population: Males: 1831 [17] 35,713

Population: Males: 1841 [18] 40,738

Population: Males: 1851 [19] 50,369

Population: Females: 1801 [20] 18,892

Population: Females: 1811 [21] 22,127

Population: Females: 1821 [22] 26,206

Population: Females: 1831 [23] 36,007

Population: Females: 1841 [24] 41,693

Population: Females: 1851 [25] 49,993

[RichardB]

Sheffield 1861

1861 Census of England and Wales, Population Tables. Number and Distribution of the People. Index to Names of Places, Table 1: " Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1851 and 1861, in Districts, Sub-districts, Parishes and Places". Source etc : as above.

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Numbers in square brackets, just relate to the line number i.e. line 1, line 2 etc.

Area in Statute Acres [1] 7,080

Houses: 1851: Inhabited [2] 20,105

Houses: 1851: Uninhabited [3] 182

Houses: 1851: Building [4] 163

Houses: 1861: Inhabited [5] 25,761

Houses: 1861: Uninhabited [6] 2,103

Houses: 1861: Building [7] 262

Population: Persons: 1851 [8] 100,362

Population: Persons: 1861 [9] 125,000

Population: Males: 1851 [10] 50,369

Population: Males: 1861 [11] 62,727

Population: Females: 1851 [12] 49,993

Population: Females: 1861 [13] 62,273

[RichardB]

Sheffield 1871

1871 Census of England and Wales, Population Tables - Area, Houses, and Inhabitants: Registration or Union Counties, with an Index to Names of Places in the Population Tables, Table 4: " Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District".

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Numbers in square brackets, just relate to the line number i.e. line 1, line 2 etc.

1871 Sheffield Brightside Bierlow Attercliffe cum Darnall Upper Hallam Nether Hallam Ecclesall Bierlow

Area in Statute Acres [1] 3,028 2,821 1,297 6,330 1,527 4,343

Houses: Inhabited: 1861 [2] 17,964 6,243 1,554 338 3,478 7,960

Houses: Uninhabited: 1861 [3] 1,599 431 73 26 499 562

Houses: Building: 1861 [4] 69 177 16 0 67 108

Houses: Inhabited: 1871 [5] 18,476 9,953 3,283 414 5,519 10,064

Houses: Uninhabited: 1871 [6] 1,016 399 414 29 342 370

Houses: Building: 1871 [7] 42 125 149 5 150 124

Population: Persons: 1861 [8] 87,718 29,818 7,464 1,643 17,305 38,771

Population: Persons: 1871 [9] 91,358 48,556 16,574 1,974 27,950 49,674

Population: Males: 1861 [10] 43,823 15,076 3,828 827 8,724 18,640

Population: Males: 1871 [11] 46,028 25,205 8,631 953 14,043 23,758

Population: Females: 1861 [12] 43,895 14,742 3,636 816 8,581 20,131

Population: Females: 1871 [13] 45,330 23,351 7,943 1,021 13,907 25,916

[RichardB]

Others, all the way to 1961 (I've not gone into them all)

http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_cen...p;c_id=10001043