Baconsthorpe, Norfolk - 1831 Census of Population

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

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Ward

1831 Census of Population

This 1831 NRO document [Ref PD 334/43/4] is on one sheet of paper. It is the standard printed form that was issued to parishes and contains only statistics ie. no names.

It contains the following information [on the outside]:-

County of Norfolk
Division of
Hundred of South Erpingham
Parish of Baconsthorpe

Formula, N^o1.

When the entries in this Formula shall have
been totalled and properly transferred to the
Overseer's Schedule, this Formula No 1. is
to be delivered to the Churchwarden of the
Parish, and preserved by him and his
Successors in Office [under IX. Section of
the Act].

Males
Females

Total 162
171
---
333

Population Enquires 1831

30th May 1831

[The following was on the other side of the printed form]

Formula, N^o 1. County of Norfolk, Parish or __________ of ________


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   |
 1.| Inhabited Houses. ___________________________________   65
   | Families.         ___________________________________   65
   |
 2.| House building.   ___________________________________    0
   |
 3.| Houses unihabited. __________________________________    0
   |
 4.| Fa  { Employed in Agriculture _______________________   32
   | mi  { In Trade,Manufacture, &c. _____________________   18
   | lies{ All other Families.   _________________________   15
   |
 5.|            {______________________________________________
   |   Males    {______________________________________________ 
   |            {________________________________________   162
   |
   |            {______________________________________________
   | Females    {______________________________________________
   |            {________________________________________   171
   |
 6.| Males upwards of 20 years ____________________________  68
   |
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   |
 7.| Agric   { Occupiers 1st Class.________________________   7
   | ulture. { Occupiers 2nd Class.________________________   1
   |         { Labourers in Agriculture.___________________  32
   |
 8.| Manufacturers.________________________________________   1
   |
 9.| Retail Trade and Handicraft___________________________  21
   |
10.| Wholesale & Capitalists, Clergy, Office - Clerks, }
   | Professional, and other Educated Men              }_____ 3
   |
11.| Labourers, not Agricultural.____________________________ 0
   |
12.| All other Males of 20 Years.____________________________ 3
   |
13.| Male      { Upwards of 20 Years.________________________ -
               {-----------------------------------------------
   | Servants  { Under 20 Years._____________________________ 1
   | All Female Servants.____________________________________10
   |
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(Signed) George Ward Overseer

[End of Census Document]

Notes

1. There was also a page of printed text detailing how the form was to be filled out.
2. The form had /// ie. strokes marked on each line as each instance of the questions was answered. These strokes were then added up to produce the number at the end of the line.

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