1831 Census

The 1831 census of Illmire parish taken on 30th May.

Area

810 English Statute Acres

Houses

Occupations

Persons

Males Twenty Years of Age

21

Agriculture

Other

Male Servants

Female Servants

3

Questions

QUESTIONS addressed to the OVERSEERS in England, and to the SCHOOLMASTERS in Scotland ;

Who are respectively required to take an Account of the resident Population, by proceeding from House to House on the Thirtieth day of May One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and on the Days immediately subsequent thereto, if One Day shall not be sufficient; and they are also required to specify in writing the Name of the Parish or Place in the Schedule, and whether it be usually called a Parish, Township, Tything, Quarter, or by what other Denomination. Individuals are to be numbered only in those Parishes, Townships or Places where they severally happen to be at the time of taking the account.

1st. How many inhabited Houses are there in your Parish, Township, or Place; and by how many Families are they occupied.

2nd. How many Houses are now building, and therefore not yet inhabited?

3rd. How many other Houses are uninhabited?

4th. What number of Families in your Parish, Township, or Place are chiefly employed in and maintained by Agriculture; or by Trade, Manufacture, or Handicraft; and how many Families are not comprised in either of the Two preceding Classes?
N.B. The total Number of Families in answer to this Question must correspond with the Number of Families in answer to the First Question; and if any Doubt shall arise as to the Class in which any Family or Families ought to be comprised, such Doubt is to he stated as a Remark, not omitting therein to specify in which Class such Family or Families may have been comprised in your Auswer to the Fourth Question.

5th. How many Persons (including Children of whatever age) are there actually found within the Limits of your Parish, Township, or Place, at the Time of taking this Account, distinguishing Males and Females, * and exclusive of Men actually serving in His Majesty’s Regular Forces, or in the Militia, and exclusive of Seamen, either in His Majesty’s Service, or belonging to registered Vessels ?
* Every Female Servant must be again entered under Question 13th.

6th. How many of the Males enumerated in answer to the 5th Question are upwards of Twenty Years old ?
N. B. If this Number of Males upwards of Twenty Years old should differ materially [or otherwise, as compared to the Return of 1821] from One Half of the total Number of Males [in answer to Question 5th], some Error has probably been committed, and the Answer to this Question should be examined, and corrected, if necessary.
[§ In the Year 1821, the Number of Males in Great Britain returned as being up- wards of Twenty Years of age, as also the Number of those under that age, somewhat exceeded 3,000,000 ; But in the City of London and other parts of the Metropolis gene- rally the Number of Males upwards of Twenty Years of age preponderated ; in other places, wherever the increase of Population has been unusually rapid, a contrary Result may be anticipated.].

7th. How many Males upwards of Twenty Years old are employed in Agriculture, including Graziers, Cowkeepers, Shepherds, and other Farm Servants, Gardeners (not taxed or taxable as Male Servants), and Nurserymen ?
In answering this Question, you will carefully distinguish these Males into Three Classes ; vizt, First, Occupiers of Land who constantly employ and pay One or more than One Labourer or Farm Servant in Husbandry ; Secondly, Occupiers of Land who employ no Labourer other than of their own Family ; Thirdly, Labourers in Husbandry and Farm Servants employed by Occupiers of the First Class.

8th. How many Males upwards of Twenty Years old are employed in Manufacture or in making Manufacturing Machinery ; but not including Labourers in Warehouses, Porters, Messengers, &c. ; who are to be included in a subsequent Class ? [Question 11th.]

9th. How many Males upwards of Twenty Years old are employed in Retail Trade or in Handicraft, as Masters, Shopmen, Journeymen, Apprentices, or in any Capacity requiring Skill in the Business ; but not including Labourers, Porters, Messengers, &c. who are to be included in a subsequent Class ?
N. B. To enable you to answer this Question in a Manner satisfactory to yourself, a Half Sheet [Formula No. 2.] containing a List of the Denominations of several Trades is transmitted herewith, with blank Spaces and Lines for Entry of the Answers you obtain ; (it being understood that if any Trade or Business carried on in your Parish or Place does not appear in the printed List, you will specify such Trade at Bottom of the said List,) making a Mark for each Male opposite to the Deno- mination of his proper Trade or Business, and adding all together for final Entry in the Schedule ; to which Schedule you will annex the said printed List with your original Entries thereon.

10th. How many Males upwards of Twenty Years old are * Wholesale Merchants, Bankers, Capitalists, Professional Persons, Artists, Architects, Teachers, Clerks, Surveyors, and other Educated Men ? And in answering this Question, you will include generally Persons maintaining themselves otherwise than by Manufacture, Trade, or bodily Labour.
[* A Retailer sells to the Consumer the Article sold.]

11th. How many Males upwards of Twenty Years old are Miners, Fishermen, Boatmen, Excavators of Canals, Roadmakers, Toll Collectors, or Labourers employed by Persons of the Three preceding Classes, [Questions 8th, 9th, 10th,] or otherwise employed in any Kind of bodily Labour, excepting in Agriculture ? Labourers in Agriculture having been already entered in the proper Place.

12th. How many other Males upwards of Twenty Years old (not being taxable Servants under the next Question) have not been included in any of the foregoing Classes ? Including, therefore, in answer to this Question, retired Tradesmen, Superannuated Labourers, and Males diseased or disabled in Body or Mind.

13th. How many Household Servants, including all Female Servants, and such Male Servants (of whatever Age) as are taxed or taxable as such ; also Waiters and Attendants at Inns ; distinguishing the Males upwards of Twenty Years of Age from the Males under Twenty Years of Age ?
N. B. Observe that the Number of Males, in answer to Questions 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th collectively, cannot be less than the Number of Males upwards of Twenty Years old, in answer to Question 6th ; but will exceed that Number in consequence of including Male Servants under 20 Years of Age ; and as a general Rule, always assign an Individual of mixed Occupation or Income to that by which he is supposed to profit more than by any other.

14th. If you have entered any Males in answer to the 8th Question, be pleased to specify the Manufacture or Manufactures in which they are employed ; and what Proportion of the Number of those entered in answer to Question 11th are employed in any Quarry, Mines, Coal Pits, Fishery, or public Work now in progress ?

15th. Referring to the number of Persons in the year 1821, to what cause do you attribute any remarkable difference in the number at present ?

16th. Are there any other matters which you may think it necessary to remark in explanation of your answers to any of the preceding Questions ?