Norfolk: Tuttington

Population in 1831

This 1831 Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 401/28 or on Microform MF 942/13] 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 "[]".

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.         ___________________________________   51
|
2.| House building.   ___________________________________   None
|
3.| Houses uninhabited. _________________________________   None
|
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.________________________   5
|         { 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

[End of Document]

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.
• 3. Note that the officially printed population for 1831 was "228" persons.

1841 Census values

On the printed form were marked figures which were dated 12 June 1841. These were as follows (and to the right of the figures with the same numbers in 1831):-

• 1. Fifty (ie. Inhabited Houses)
• 2. Fifty One (ie. No of Families occupying fifty houses)
• 3. None (ie. House building)
• 4. Three (ie. Houses uninhabited)
• 5. 113 (ie. Males)
•     114 (ie. Females)     Total 227

See also the Tuttington parish page and the main Population page

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September 2015