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Census: 1811
Great Bircham 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 34/43] is on one sheet of paper.
[Transcription copyright © Mike Bristow]
Surname Index
The following surnames are contained in the document. The numbers following each are the Page numbers which contain one or more occurences of the name.
| Ausbourne Bales Barker Barmstone Barterby Beck Bell Billins Blow Bowman Britton Browne Bussey Carrington Cawthorn Chapman | Claxon Coe Dodman Driffield Elvy Golden Green Grieves Grimes Hamond Harrison He[l/b]in (Hebgin?) Hill Hollander Humphreys | Hunt Jarr Knowles Lack Lown Marsham Marsters Miles Mitchell Nock Nurse Pole Pratt Preston Ransom | Roberson Rodwell Royce Rumbles Samphir Sampson Shilling Sparham Spenton Spooner Stearman Wadalow Ward Wagg Watts |
The Census
It contains the following information :-
An account of ye population of Gt Bircham
taken 27 of may 1811 by John Barker.
| Males | Females | Males | Females | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jno Claxon | 2 | 1 | David Mitchell | 4 | 4 |
| Geo Barterby | 1 | 1 | James Stearman | 2 | 1 | |
| Jno Jarr | 3 | 4 | Thos Bales | 2 | 1 | |
| 1 | Jno Barker | 2 | 3 | Wm Coe | 2 | 2 |
| Robt Rumbles | 1 | 1 | Jno Browne | 2 | 1 | |
| 1 | Jno Shilling | 4 | 4 | Miss Hollander | - | 3 |
| 1 | Tho Cawthorn | 1 | 1 | Jno Elvy | 1 | 4 |
| Robt Miles Ck | - | 1 | Tho Lown | 4 | 3 | |
| 1 | Jno Sampson | 2 | 3 | Phillis Britton | 4 | 1 |
| Thos Marsters | 3 | 1 | Thos Mitchell | 2 | 1 | |
| 1 | Robt Miles Snr | 2 | - | Jno Wagg | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | Robt Spooner | 4 | 4 | Wm Barmstone | 4 | 1 |
| Thos Ransom | 3 | 2 | Edmd Royce | 2 | 2 | |
| Jno Golden | 3 | 1 | King Sparham | 5 | 3 | |
| 1 | Thos Bell | 3 | 3 | Robt Sparham | 4 | 4 |
| 1 | Thos Harrison | 1 | 1 | Sarah He[l/b]in? | 4 | 7 |
| Robt Miles Jnr | 1 | 4 | Robt Hill | 1 | 2 | |
| Thos Lack | 2 | 4 | Jno Wadalow | 4 | 4 | |
| 1 | Dewing Chapman | 1 | 3 | Wm Knowles | 1 | 2 |
| Thos Ward | 2 | 4 | Wm Pole | 3 | 3 | |
| 1 | Mattw Bowman | 3 | 3 | Wm Bussey | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Town House | 2 | 3 | Thos Spenton | 1 | 5 |
| 1 | Wm Lack | 4 | 2 | Jno Pratt | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Thos Grieves | 4 | 2 | Sasana Billins | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | Josh Samphir | 3 | 2 | Martha Rodwell | 7 | 6 |
| 1 | Jno Roberson | 1 | 2 | Robt Hunt | 3 | 6 |
| Robt Nock | 1 | 5 | Richd Watts | 1 | 1 | |
| 1 | Jno Green | 2 | 1 | Wm Ausbourne | 2 | 2 |
| 1 | Martn Dodman | 1 | 2 | Jno Marsham | 3 | 3 |
| Frans Hamond | 4 | 3 | Bloom Humphreys | 2 | 1 | |
| 1 | Richard Wagg | 1 | 2 | Luke Driffield | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | Wm Grimes | - | 3 | Rayner Preston | 2 | 1 |
| Thos Carrington | 3 | 3 | --- | --- | ||
| 1 | Mary Nurse | - | 2 | 79 | 84 | |
| 1 | Wm Beck | 6 | 4 | One uninhabited | 79 | 88 |
| 1 | Patrick Blow | 3 | 3 | House | --- | --- |
| --- | --- | 158 | 172 | |||
| 79 | 88 | 172 | ||||
| --- | ||||||
| 330 |
[End of Census Document]
Notes
- All shorthand contractions in the document have been reproduced as written.
- The document contained 2 columns of names which only lined up approximately.
- The meaning of the figure "1" before some names in the first column is unknown but has been included for completeness.
- The only unreadable name is "Sarah Helin/Hebin"? in the 2nd column. Whites 1845 gives a Thomas Hebgin (a farmer) who is probably related. Thomas HEBGIN (bur. Apr 1809 in Great Bircham) married Sarah SEWELL (of Fincham) in Dec 1782 at Shouldham Thorpe
See also the Great Bircham parish page and the main Census page
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Copyright © Mike Bristow.
January 2002