Norfolk: Wymondham

Population: 1747

Wymondham is one of the few places in the county for which population figures from before 1801 survive.

This Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 184/3 and on microforms MF 580/7 and MF/PR 15] is at the back of the Parish Register that has Baptisms for the period 1713-1758 and contains figures for the year 1747. It contains statistics, occupations and religious persuasions and an additional baptism for 1751.

Population years

1747	1811 and 1821

It contains the following information :-

In the year 1747 I went to every house in the Parish; took an account of the number of families in every Division & of persons in every family; also of their religion & employments; & found by the Accounts which they themselves gave me the whole to be as follows.

Families in

Suton Division

Spooner row
Wattlefield
Silfield
Browick & Stanfield
Upper & Lower Downham
Town Green, Vicar Street
and Chappelgate
Market Street &c.
Damgate & Back Lane

The Whole number
of families

89

36
30
58
23
68

144
136
102
----
686

Persons in those
families

of Persons

418

186
171
283
138
343

666
590
418
----
3213

Amongst all these families there were

Gentlemen farmers & Others
Husbandmen or Labourers
Weavers
Ale house keepers
All other Trades, Businesses,
Employments, & Poor

The Whole, as before

120
130
155
39

242
---
686

of which about

in all

21
33
---
54

families only were Quakers
families only were other Dissenters

but in this I may be mistaken, as
many seemed unwilling to own of what
religion they were.

N.B. There were then (being Summer Time) only 44? [or 114?] in the Workhouse.

R. Cremer Vicar

October 1751
I baptised Thomas & Susan Twin Children of John Thompson Husbandman in Suton Division & Sarah his wife which was the fifth time of their having Twin's. Seven of the ten were living & likely to live? seeming to be very healthy strong Children.
R. C. [R. Cremer]

[End of Document]

Notes

All shorthand contractions in the document have been reproduced as written.

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