Norfolk: Tuttington - Population in 1831

This 1831 Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 401/28] is on one sheet of paper. It is the standard printed form that was issued to parishes and contains only statistics ie. no names except the enumerator "Bowles".

Note that a number of answers were not entered by the enumerator and these have been left blank, but followed in places by the correct information between square brackets "[]".

Population and Census available

• 1821 - Heads of Households and trades etc.
• This document.

It contains the following information:-

County of Norfolk
Division of ______________ [South Erpingham]
Hundred of South Erpingham
Parish of Tuttington

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].

Population Enquires (sic)
1831

30th May 1831

And on the other side of the printed form:-

  Formula,   N^o 1. County of Norfolk, Parish or ______ of ______[Tuttington]

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   |
 1.| Inhabited Houses. ___________________________________   34
   | Families.         ___________________________________    1
   |
 2.| House building.   ___________________________________   None
   |
 3.| Houses uninhabited. _________________________________    Do
   |
 4.| Fa  { Employed in Agriculture _______________________   42
   | mi  { In Trade,Manufacture, &c. _____________________    6
   | lies{ All other Families.   _________________________    3
   |
 5.|            {______________________________________________
   |   Males    {______________________________________________ 
   |            {________________________________________   117
   |
   |            {______________________________________________
   | Females    {______________________________________________
   |            {________________________________________   107
   |
 6.| Males upwards of 20 years ____________________________  64
   |
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   |
 7.| Agric   { Occupiers 1st Class.________________________   5
   | ulture. { Occupiers 2nd Class.________________________  Do
   |         { Labourers in Agriculture.___________________  32
   |
 8.| Manufacturers.________________________________________  __ [None]
   |
 9.| Retail Trade and Handicraft___________________________   8
   |
10.| Wholesale & Capitalists, Clergy, Office - Clerks, }
   | Professional, and other Educated Men              }_____ None
   |
11.| Labourers, not Agricultural.____________________________ None
   |
12.| All other Males of 20 Years.____________________________ 14
   |
13.| Male      { Upwards of 20 Years.________________________  1
               {-----------------------------------------------
   | Servants  { Under 20 Years._____________________________  2
   | All Female Servants.____________________________________  5
   |
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(Signed) P B Bowles Enumerator

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 (omitted here if present) were then added up to produce the number at the end of the line.

1841 Census values

• 1. Fifty
• 2. Do
• 3. None
• 4. [blank]
• 5. 113
• 6. 114     Total 227

See also the Tuttington parish page and the main Population page

Copyright © Mike Bristow.
May 2002