Hide

Norfolk: Thorpe St Andrew

hide
Hide

Population: 1811 & 1821

This Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 228/76(S) and microform MF958/4] is from the Churchwardens' accounts for 1747-1875 where figures for 1801, 1811 and 1821 are to be found.

Population tables available

It contains the following information :-

1811 Population Tables

It contains the following information (for the Town of Thorpe):- 

Q1
--
i                    ii
-                    --
Inhab(ited)         By how many
Houses           families occup.
99                 106
Q2
--
Houses now
Building
7
Q3
--
Other Houses
Inhabitable
0
Q4
--
i                    ii                 ii
Families Chiefly      Families Chiefly     All Other
Employed in           Employed in Trade    Families not
Agriculture           Manufacture          comprised in
and Handicraft       the two preceding
classes
47                    26                  33
Q5
--
-M                     -F                     -T
Persons including Children of Whatever Age
Males                  Females             Total of Persons
213                     239                    452

The population as taken in June 1811

In the Hamlet of Thorpe 

11   Houses Inhabited
1   Houses Uninhabited
2   Building (*)
33   Males   } In all
34   Females }  67 Persons
14   Families (*)

Note figures marked (*) come from the 1801 Census document.

 

[End of Document]

1821 Population Tables

In pursuance of an Act 1st Geo 4th intituled An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain and of the increase or diminuation thereof. The following is the total of the return made by the Overseers, dated the 28 May 1821.

Thorpe in the Hundred of Blofield.

Inhabited Houses
[By] Families
House Building
Uninhabited Houses
 
Families chiefly
employed in Agriculture
 
Families empld In Trade
Manufacr and Handicrafts
 
Families not computed
in the preceding
 
Males
Females
 
Total of Persons
  		129
156
    2
    3
 
 
  72
 
 
  60
 
 
  24
 
395
412
---
807
--- 		}
}
} Houses
}
 
}
}
}
} Occupations
}
}
}
}
 
}
} Persons
}
}
 

 

Ages Un
der
5 		5
to
10 		10
to
15 		15
to
20 		20
to
30 		30
to
40 		40
to
50 		50
to
60 		60
to
70 		70
to
80 		80
to
90 		90
to
100 		Upwd
of
100
Males   49 43 30 29   65   68 50 27 23 10   1   0   -
Females   53 53 36 32   80   58 43 26 20   8   2   1   -
[Totals] 102 96 66 61 145 126 93 53 43 18   3   1 807

 

       
The Population of Thorpe
in 1811 amounted to 		  213 Males   239 Females Making 452 Souls
In May 1821 exclusive of the
Asylum, amounted to 		  329 Males   367 Females Making 696 Souls
The population of May 1821 of the
Asylum, amounted to 		    66 Males     45 Females Making 111 Souls
     
Total Population of Thorpe         807 Souls
     
Increase between the periods
of 1811 & 1821 		        355 Souls

 

 

 

 

[End of Document]

See also the Thorpe St Andrew parish page and the main Population page

These pages are for personal use only. They may not be copied, and the links within them may not be harvested for use on your own web pages. Please see the Copyright Notice.

Copyright © Mike Bristow.
March 2016