Norfolk: Mattishall

Population: 1759, 1775, 1790, 1801 and 1811

Mattishall is one of the few places in the county for which a population census from before 1801 survives.

These population census come from a Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 703/3 and on microform MF/RO 633/5] and contain only statistics ie. no names (apart from two ministers one of whom was dissenting). They appear at the end of the 1812 Burials volume.

Population years available

1759

1775

1790

1801

1811

The following information is in the document:-

1759

Males
Women
Children

Total

No of Families
No of Houses

163
195
316
---
674

153
103

1775 - The total population was 720

1790 - The total population was 774. Besides about 20 more maintained in House of Industry which was erected about 1776.

1801

No of Houses
No of Families
No of Males
No of Females
Total of Persons
No of Persons chiefly
employed in Agriculture
No of Persons engaged
In Trade & Manufactures
People who belonged
to it maintained in House of
Industry at Gressenhall

111
176
355
396
751

80

93

31

1811

Inhabited Houses
By Families
Now building
Houses uninhabited
Males
Females
Total
Families chiefly
employed in Agriculture
Families engaged
In Trade or Handicrafts
Families not in above
2 classes

118
168
2
0
372
336
708

109

52

7

The number of marriages, Births and Burials within the last ten years appears as followeth

Marriages
Births Males
Females
Burials Males
Females

52
154
116
62
82

}
} 270
}
} 144

Besides 16 baptised in the same period by the dissenting minister M^r John Carter.

M Carthew : Vicar 1811

[End of Document]

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