Dunston, Norfolk - 1811/21/31 Census

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

Dates of Census

1811 - Only statistics available ie. no names.
1821 - Heads of Households and trades.
1831 - Some books indicate its existance. The Norfolk Record Office (NRO) references [Ref DUN(C)87] lead one to the LONG family (of Dunston) estate records, but all that exists is a numerical count of some sections of the population of Newton Flotman where they also owned land.
1841 - National census transcription.

1811 Census of Population

This 1811 NRO entry [Ref DUN(C)81] only gives statistics from 1811-1820 and contains the following :-


                              1821 Dunston
                              ------------
          Baptisms                Burials
      Males  Females  Total   Males  Females  Total   Year Marriages
1811             1      1                             1811    1    
1812    2               2       3               3     1812
1813    1                                             1813    2
1814    2               2                             1814
1815                                                  1815    1
1816             2      2                             1816
1817    1        1      2       1        2      3     1817    1
1818    3               3       1               1     1818
1819    1        1      2       2               2     1819    1
1820    2        2      4       1        3      4     1820    2
       --       --     --      --       --     --            --
Total  12        8     20       8        5     13             8

Diocese of Norwich, County of Norfolk, Deanery of Humbleyard

[End of Census Document]

1821 Census of Population

This 1821 census for Dunston [NRO Ref DUN(C)80] contains the following:-


1821                            Males   Fem   Total
Revd. Mr. Longs Family            5      12     17
Lady H Boyce                      1       6      7
Robert Carpenter                  5       2      7   Agriculture
W  Brighten                       2       2      4    Do
John Leggatt                      1       1      2    Do
Samual Dady                       4       3      7    Do
Stephen Smith                     1       4      5    Do
William Leggatt                   3       4      7    Do
Charles Brighten                  1       3      4   Trade
Edjester Wickham                  1       1      2 
George Beauty                     2       2      4   Agriculture
Widow Waller                      3       3      6    Do
John Brows                        2       2      4   Trade 
Simon Jackson                     3       3      6    Do
Daniel Andrews                    5       1      6    Do
Richard New                       2       1      3    Do
John Butcher                      2       1      3    Do
William Turrell                   2       2      4    Do
Jeremiah Lincoln                  2       2      4   Trade
Joseph Parfitt                    4       3      7   Agriculture
George Fish                       1       1      2
                                 52      59    111

Twenty inhabited Houses containing Twenty Families
Sixteen Families supported by agriculture
Two in Trade
Two Independent
Taken in the Year 1821

1821 Accounts of the Population in Dunston.

[End of Census Document]

Notes

It appeared on the original as if the occupation in the entry for Charles Brighten was rubbed out. This would then give Mr. Brows & Mr. Lincoln in Trade, Revd. Long & Lady Boyce as Independent and the rest in Agriculture (even though the "Do" for ditto was missing).

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