Norfolk: Alderford

Census: 1831

Alderford is one of the few places in the county for which a census before 1841 containing names survives.

This Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 43/27] is on 3 sheets of paper, the breaks being indicated by [Page n] which are not on the original.

Name Index

The census contains the following names and the numbers in brackets refer to the page numbers on which they occur.

Bacon (1)
Copeman (1)
Crisp (2)
Freestone (3)
Gage (2)[Notes]
Howlett (1)
Jackson (3)

Little (3)
Rainer (3)
Shuttleburgh (3)
Stanhope (1)
Stimpson (1,2)
Tuck (1)

The Census Document

The census contains the following information.

[Page 1]

Population of Alderford 1831

		Age
	Benjamin Stimpson Se^r	58
	Robert Stimpson	63
	Mary Stimpson	57
	Francis Stimpson	21
	Harriett Stimpson	19
	John Stimpson	15

	Robert Bacon	69
	Mildred Bacon	60
	Harriett Howlett	23
	Sarah Stanhope	33
	Sarah Howlett	16

	Wm Copeman	64
	Elizabeth Copeman	23
	Mark Tuck	50

[Page 2]

	William Gage	34
	Elizabeth Gage	38
	Charles Gage	13
	George Gage	11
	Harriett Gage	9
	Clarisa Gage	8
	Martin Gage	7
	Author Gage	3
	Emma Gage	2

	Benjamin Stimpson Ju^r	23
	Sarah Stimpson	32

	John Crisp	29
	Mary Crisp	32

[Page 3]

	Samuel Freestone	50
	Sarah Freestone	42
	Frances Freestone	14
	Richard Freestone	9
	Robert Shuttleburgh	18
	Anne Little	70
	Henry Rainer	38
	Martha Rainer	47
	Mary Rainer	14
	James Rainer	12
	Susan [Rainer]	7
	Emely Rainer	5

	Mary Jackson	79

[End of Census Document]

Notes

All shorthand contractions in the document have been reproduced as written.
The gaps between blocks of names are believed to indicate households which if correct would equal 8.
There are 40 people listed above and White's 1845 gives a population of 44.
See also the Alderford 1841 census which shows :-.
- Gage family are now named Gedge.
- In the RAINER family above the surname after Susan was blank. She is now enumerated as Susan Rayner aged 15 [where age has been rounded down to nearest 5 years].

See also the Alderford parish page and the main Census page.

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