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Census: 1811

Baconsthorpe is one of the few places in the county for which a census before 1841 containing names survives.

This 1811 Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 334/43/2] is on one sheet of paper.

[Transcription copyright © Mike Bristow]

Census available for Baconsthorpe

  • 1768 - Heads of Households.
  • 1801 - Heads of Households, families and trades.
  • 1811 - This document.
  • 1821 - Heads of Households and ages of families.

Name Index

 

Adams
Bircham
Bumfrey
Bye
Christopher
Cranefield
English
Everitt
Fisher
Ford
Frankland
Girdlestone
Grand
Harmer
Harrison
Hazlewood
Massingham
Mayes
Means
Pegg
Pentney
Proudfoot
Richardson
Scarfe
Scottow
Silence
Smith
Springall
Spurrell
Staff
Starling
Taylor
Thaxter
Twiss
Utton
Walker
Ward
Warner
Warns
Wegg
White
Whiting
Wilson

The Census Document

The original document had the following headings spelt out in full. They have been contracted to allow for a clearer display.

  • No of Fam. = "No of Families"
  • Fam. emp. in Agric. = "Families employed in Agriculture"
  • Tra = "In Trade"
  • N = "In Neither"

The Heading "D" has been placed above column 1 to indicate a dwelling or house and was not present on the original.

The census contains the following information :-

Baconsthorpe Acct. of Population
     May 27th 1811

D Males No Females No No of Fam. Fam. emp. in Agric. Tra N
1 Mr Twiss & 2 Men 3 Mrs Twiss & 1 maid 2 1 1    
1 Mr Girdlestone & 1 Men 2 Mrs G: & 2 maids 3 1     1
1 Mr Springall, Nephew & 3 Men 5 Miss Mayes & 1 maid 2 1 1    
1 R. Pegg 1 Wife & Sister 2 1   1  
1 Wm Scottow 1 Mother & Sister 2 1 1    
      Wid. Proudfoot 1 1     1
      S Thaxter 1 1     1
1 R.Bumfrey & son 2 Wife & J Starling 2 2 1   1
1 R Pentney Son & Massingham 3 Wife 1 1 2    
1 Mr Wilson & 1 servant 2 Mrs W: 2 Daughts    }     1    
      Mrs Silence & 1 maid} 5 1      
1 James Ward 1 Wife 1 1 1    
1 Mr Cranefield & 3 Servts 4 Mrs C & Mother 2 1   1  
1 Wm Thaxter 1 Wife & Child 2 1 1    
1 Thos Scarfe 1 Wife : Susn & 2 Ch 4 1 1    
1 Frankland & 1 lodger 2 Wife 1 2   2  
1 Bircham & 2 sons 3 Wife & Daughter 2 1 1    
1 P Adams 1 Wife 1 1 1    
1 Mr Grand & Servt 2 Mrs G:2 Daughters 3 1 1    
1 Mr Mayes, 2 Servts 3 Miss Mayes 1 2 1 1  
1 Will: Everitt & Staff 2 Wife 1 2 2    
1 R Everitt 2 Sons 3 Wife, 2 Daughters 3 1   1  
1 R Harrison 2 Sons 3 Wife, 4 Daughts 5 1 1    
1 R Wegg 2 Sons & F.Wegg 4 Wife 1 Daughr. 2 2 2    
1 J Smith 2 Boys 3 Wife 1 1 1    
1 Mr Spurrell 1 Son 2 Mrs S:& Daughter 2 1 1    
1 Richardson & son 2 Wife 1 1     1
1 A Lodger 1 Marth: Ward 1 2   1 1
1 Stephen Ward 1 Wife 1 1 1    
1 Harmer 4 Sons 5 Wife 2 Daughts 3 1 1    
1 Mr Warns 1 Son 1 Man 3 Mrs W:1 Maid 2 1 1    
1 G Everitt 1 Son 2 Wife 1 1 1    
1 English & 1 Son 2 Wife, 1 Daught 2 1   1  
1 Edmund Warns}   Mrs Warns          
  & Nephew} 2 & 2 Daughters 3 1 1    
1 T Fisher 1 Wid: Walker 1 2 1   1
1 Hazlewood, 2 Sons, Fisher 4 Wife, 1 Daught 2 2 1   1
1 W:Christopher 1 1 Daughter, 8 Boards 9 1     1
1 Jas Bye 1 Wife 1 1 1    
1 T Silence 2 sons 3 Wife 3 Daughts 4 1   1  
1 Mr Means, Brothr. 2 Boys 4 Miss Warns 1 Maid 2 1 1    
1 G Ward & Son, 3 Servts 5 Wife 4 Daughtrs. 1 Maid 6 1   1  
1 Mr F Twiss 1 Mrs Twiss, 1 Maid 2 1   1  
1 Mr Fisher, 1 Servant 2 Mrs & Miss F. Miss     1    
      Isaac & 1 Maid 4 1      
1 Warner & 1 Son 2 Wife 1 1 1    
1 Wm Taylor 2 Boys              
  2 Lodgers 4 Wife & Daughtr 3 3 3    
1 T. Fisher 2 Sons 3 Wife & Girls 3 1 1    
1 Jas. Ford & 1 Prentice 2 Wife & Dagless 2 1   1  
1 Mr. Utton Bailiff 3 Men 5 Bailiffs W. D: & M: 3 1 1    
  Hall uninhabited              
45   110   108 57 35 13 9

 

Males
Females

Total
110
108
---
218

decrease in 10 years 21

 

[End of Census Document]


Notes

  • All shorthand contractions in the document have been reproduced as written.
  • The references to Nephew and Lodger above have not been included in the Index.
  • "Staff" is a surname as confirmed by 1801/1821 census.

The following names have gone since the 1801 census

 

Bastard
Clarke
Cletherwood
Emery
Ives
Jarvis
Press
Purdy
Shorty
Whitesides

The following names have appeared since the 1801 census

 

Bye
English
Proudfoot
Richardson
Starling
Taylor
Twiss
Utton
Warner
Wegg
White
Whiting

See also the Baconsthorpe parish page and the main Census page

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Copyright © Mike Bristow.
January 2002