Norfolk: West Tofts

Population: 1831

This 1831 Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 55/52] 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 contains the following information [on the outside]:-

County of Norfolk
Division of Grimshoe
Hundred of Grimshoe
Parish of West Tofts

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   
         Females 
                 ---
         Total  
 
 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 or __________ of ________

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    |
  1.| Inhabited Houses. ___________________________________   33
    | Families.         ___________________________________   38
    |
  2.| House building.   ___________________________________    1
    |
  3.| Houses uninhabited. _________________________________    1
    |
  4.| Fa  { Employed in Agriculture _______________________   36
    | mi  { In Trade,Manufacture, &c. _____________________    2
    | lies{ All other Families.   _________________________   
    |
  5.|            {______________________________________________
    |   Males    {______________________________________________ 
    |            {________________________________________    97
    |
    |            {______________________________________________
    | Females    {______________________________________________
    |            {________________________________________    85
    |
  6.| Males upwards of 20 years ____________________________  56
    |
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    |
  7.| Agric   { Occupiers 1st Class.________________________   1
    | ulture. { Occupiers 2nd Class.________________________   -
    |         { Labourers in Agriculture.___________________  25
    |
  8.| Manufacturers.________________________________________   
    |
  9.| Retail Trade and Handicraft___________________________  
    |
 10.| Wholesale & Capitalists, Clergy, Office - Clerks, }
    | Professional, and other Educated Men              }_____ 
    |
 11.| Labourers, not Agricultural.____________________________ 
    |
 12.| All other Males of 20 Years.____________________________ 3
    |
 13.| Male      { Upwards of 20 Years.________________________ -
                {-----------------------------------------------
    | Servants  { Under 20 Years._____________________________ 
    | All Female Servants.____________________________________
    |
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(Signed) ________________________

[End of Document]

See also the West Tofts parish page and the main Population page

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January 2006