Weasenham St Peter, Norfolk - 1821 and 1831 Census of Population

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1821 census - statistics.
1831 census - statistics.

1821 Census of Population

These 1821 and 1831 Norfolk Record Office documents [with the reference PD 127/86 and MF/X/280/19] are on consecutive pages on the Microform. It is a handwritten copy of the information which was sent to the Government. One or two lines are differently worded and some are missing from the 1831 copy presumably because the answers were zero eg. Unihabited houses.
Both documents contain only statistics ie. no names.

The 1821 document contains the following information:-

Memorandum --? Population
of this Parish
taken 28^th 1821 --other

Males

Under 5	5 10	10 15	15 20	20 30	30 40	40 50	50 60	60 70	70 80	80 90
30	20	13	13	27	15	17	11	13	4	1

Females

Under 5	5 10	10 15	15 20	20 30	30 40	40 50	50 60	60 70	70 80	80 90
7	20	14	5	20	20	7	14	8	2	2

Males
Females

164
129
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293
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57 Inhabited Houses
59 Families

7 Employ^d in Trade
1 Resident Vicar
51 in Agriculture

[End of 1821 Census Document]

1821 Notes

The last 3 statistics give the number of families employed in each occupation.

The 1831 document contains the following information:-

Population taken 1831 -
H^y Overman }
& Jn^o Whitby } Overseers


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 1.| Inhabited Houses. ___________________________________   59
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 2.| Families.         ___________________________________   62
   |
 3.| House building.   ___________________________________    4
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 4.| Fa  { Employed in Agriculture _______________________   42
   | mi  { In Trade,Manufacture, &c. _____________________   13
   | lies{ All other Families.   _________________________    7
   |
 5.|   Males    {________________________________________   159 
   |   Females  {________________________________________   150
   |
 6.| Males upwards of 20 years ____________________________  83
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 7.| Agric   { Occupiers 1st Class.________________________   3
   | ulture. { Occupiers 2nd Class.________________________   2
   |         { Labourers in Agriculture.___________________  55
   |
 9.| Retail Trade and Handicraft___________________________  11
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10.| Clergy ________________________________________________  1
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11.| Labourers, not Agricultural.___________________________  7?
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12.| All other Males of 20 yrs. & up_________________________  3
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13.| Up --? of 20 y[rs] Age           _______________________  1

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[End of 1831 Census Document]

1831 Notes

The numbering ie. 1 to 13 in the 1831 figures differs slightly from the original form.
13. is Male servants upwards of 20 years of age.
Missing are those male servants under 20 years and the numbers of Female servants probably because there were none.
Henry Overman was a Farmer in White's 1845 Trade Directory.

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