Norfolk: Baconsthorpe

Census: 1768

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

This 1768 Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 334/24 and on Microform reference MF 969/4] is on two pages.

Census available

1768 - This document.
1801 - Heads of Households, families and trades.
1811 - Heads of Households and trades.
1821 - Heads of Households and ages of families.

Name Index

The following surnames are contained in the document. The numbers following each are the Page numbers which contain one or more occurences of the name.

Ames (1)
Argier (1)
Bastard (1)
Bradfield (1)
Brown (1)
Carrison (1)
Clutterwood (1)
Custance (1)
Dix (1)
Eling (1)

Fisher (1)
Frankland (1)
Girdlestone (1)
Grand (1)
Gunner (1)
Hall (1)
Hewitt (1)
Ives (2)
Lee (2)
Leman (2)

Loads (2)
Lone (2)
Mayes (2)
Means (2)
Partridge (2)
Paul (2)
Pells (2)
Ransom (2)
Rye (2)

Silence (2)
Springall (2)
Spurrel (2)
Starling (2)
Wake (2)
Walker (2)
Warnes (2)
Wilson (2)
Winter (1)

The Census Document

This contains the following information :-

A List of the Inhabitants
of Baconsthorpe - December -
1768

	Names of each family &	N^o
.	Ames Thomas	2
.	Argier W^m	3
	Bastard - Widow	6
	Bradfield John	6
-	Brown John	4
.	Carrison Thomas	2
	Clutterwood Thomas	6
.	Custance The Revd M^r	4
.	Dix - widow -	3
.	Eling Eliz	3
.	Fisher - Farmer	7
.	Fisher Thomas	7
.	Frankland Richard	10
-	Frankland Richard	3
-	Girdlestone M^rs at the Hall	9
.	Grand John	5
.	Gunner 3 - with wid: Winter	4
.	Hall W^m *	4
.	Hewitt The Rev'd W^m Rector	9
	[Page 2 follows]
*	Ives Robert	6
.	Lee Susan	3
.	Leman Abraham	3
.	Loads William	3
.	Lone Thomas	2
.	Mayes Thomas	6
-	Means Francis	11
.	Partridge Henry	2
	Paul William	3
-	Pells John	4
.	Ransom Eliz	1
	Rye James	4
.	Silence Richard	1
	Silence Epher	8
.	Springall Joseph -quaker-	3
	Springall John	9
.	Spurrel - presbyterian	4
.	Starling Simon	7
.	Walker William	6
.	Wake Robert	2
.	Warnes Edmund	6
*	Wilson Peter	9
		---
	[Total persons]	200

[End of Census Document]

Notes

The entry in the first column of a dot ".", dash "-" or space " " has unknown meaning at present.
A star "*" in the first column indicated that the symbol on the original is unknown because the page corner was missing or bent over.
The entry for William HALL originally had the name "John" which had been crossed out.

See also the Baconsthorpe parish page and the main Census page

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