Norfolk: East Bilney

Population: 1831

This 1831 Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 194/28/1] is on one sheet of paper. It is the standard printed form that was issued to parishes and contains only statistics ie. no names. It was pasted into a copy of the 1841 census of Beetley and East Bilney.

It contains the following information [on the outside]:-

County of Norfolk
Division of -------
Hundred of Launditch
Parish of East Bilney

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].

         Males    77
         Females  89
                 ---
         Total   166
 
 Population Enquires
 1831
 
 30th May 1831
 
     [The following was on the other side of the printed form]
 
 

Formula, N^o 1. County of Norfolk, Parish of East Bilney

 
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    |
  1.| Inhabited Houses. ___________________________________   29
    | Families.         ___________________________________   37
    |
  2.| House building.   ___________________________________  none
    |
  3.| Houses uninhabited. _________________________________  none
    |
  4.| Fa  { Employed in Agriculture _______________________   29
    | mi  { In Trade,Manufacture, &c. _____________________    7
    | lies{ All other Families.   _________________________    1
    |
  5.|            {______________________________________________
    |   Males    {______________________________________________ 
    |            {________________________________________    77
    |
    |            {______________________________________________
    | Females    {______________________________________________
    |            {________________________________________    89
    |
  6.| Males upwards of 20 years ____________________________  42
    |
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    |
  7.| Agric   { Occupiers 1st Class.________________________   6
    | ulture. { Occupiers 2nd Class.________________________   4
    |         { Labourers in Agriculture.___________________  18
    |
  8.| Manufacturers.________________________________________ none
    |
  9.| Retail Trade and Handicraft___________________________   9
    |
 10.| Wholesale & Capitalists, Clergy, Office - Clerks, }
    | Professional, and other Educated Men              }____  2
    |
 11.| Labourers, not Agricultural.___________________________ none
    |
 12.| All other Males of 20 Years.___________________________  2
    |
 13.| Male      { Upwards of 20 Years._______________________  1
                {-----------------------------------------------
    | Servants  { Under 20 Years.____________________________  3
    | All Female Servants.___________________________________  5
    |
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The above account was taken May 30^th 1831 by Robert Allison and W^m Craser

(Signed) Robert Allison

[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.

See also the East Bilney parish page and the main Population page

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January 2007