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Reedham, Norfolk - 1811/31/41 Census of Population

This 1811 Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 290/35 and MF 961/6] was a hand written memorandum in the parish register and contains only statistics ie. no names.

Census available

It contains the following information :-

[1811]

Reedham a Village

Inhabited Houses
[by how many] Families
 
Empty [houses]
 
Uninhabited houses
 
Employed in Agriculture
[Employed in] Trade
Other
 
Males
Females
 
Total
77
78
 
--
 
1
 
40
27
11
 
168
209
---
377

[signed] John Baker         Church Warden


1831 Census of Population

It contains the following information :-

County of Norfolk
Division of ------
Hundred of ------
Parish of Reedham

Formula, No1.

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   282
	Females 253
	        ---
	Total   535

Population Enquires
1831

30th May 1831

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

 Formula,  No 1. County of Norfolk, Parish of Reedham

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
   |
 1.| Inhabited Houses. ___________________________________  109
   | Families.         ___________________________________  106
   |
 2.| House building.   ___________________________________    2
   |
 3.| Houses uninhabited. __________________________________   1
   |
 4.| Fa  { Employed in Agriculture _______________________   59
   | mi  { In Trade,Manufacture, &c. _____________________   39
   | lies{ All other Families.   _________________________    7
   |
 5.|            {______________________________________________
   |   Males    {______________________________________________ 
   |            {________________________________________   282
   |
   |            {______________________________________________
   | Females    {______________________________________________
   |            {________________________________________   253
   |
 6.| Males upwards of 20 years ____________________________ 135
   |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
   |
 7.| Agric   { Occupiers 1st Class.________________________  10
   | ulture. { Occupiers 2nd Class.________________________   2
   |         { Labourers in Agriculture.___________________  85
   |
 8.| Manufacturers.________________________________________   2
   |
 9.| Retail Trade and Handicraft___________________________  15
   |
10.| Wholesale & Capitalists, Clergy, Office - Clerks, }
   | Professional, and other Educated Men              }_____  1
   |
11.| Labourers, not Agricultural.____________________________ 22
   |
12.| All other Males of 20 Years.____________________________  5
   |
13.| Male      { Upwards of 20 Years.________________________  7
               {-----------------------------------------------
   | Servants  { Under 20 Years._____________________________ 13
   | All Female Servants.____________________________________ 17
   |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

(Signed) Robert Browne
        Churchwarden


[1841]

Inhabited Houses
 
Males
Females
 
Total
112
 
311
302
---
613

Taken 7th June 1841 by Robert Browne and Robert Ridall

[End of Census Document]

Notes


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January 2007