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Census: 1811
Wacton 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 496/91] is on 1 sheet of paper.
[Transcription copyright © Mike Bristow]
Name Index
The census contains the following names.
| Alderton
Aldridge Archer Bailey Banham Batley Beck Bishop Bower Carman Chambers |
Clarke
Cook Copsie Culham Dade Death Dye Elven Green Hanton Harris |
Hewit
Howes Hubbard Jeffries Kemp Leman Lurken Mason Meadows Muskett Oliver |
Perrone
Reeve Rud Sallows Scales Smith Spurling Staff Stannard Webb Weston |
The Census Document
The original document had the following headings spelt out in full. They have been contracted to allow for a clearer display.
It contains the following information :-
- [Heads] of families follow [not indicated on original]
Q1 -- i ii - -- Inhab(ited) By how many Houses families occup. Q2 -- Houses now Building Q3 -- Other Houses Inhabitable 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 Q5 -- -M -F -T Persons including Children of Whatever Age Males Females Total of Persons
This contains the following information :-
Wacton Magna
with Parva
Depwade Hundred
County of Norfolk
Copy of the Population of
the Parish of Wacton taken in the
Year 1811 as directed by Government.
Thos Muskett }
& }
Shad Perrone }
| [Heads] | Q1
i |
Q1
ii |
Q2 | Q3 | Q4
i |
Q4
ii |
Q4
iii |
Q5
M |
Q5
F |
Q5
T |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carman R Junr | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Muskett Thos | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Staff Mat and Smith & Staff | 1 | 3 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| Rud & Meadows | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| Death & Banham | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| Staff Siman & Archer | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Staff Robt Oliver & Staff | 1 | 3 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Copsie John | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| Carman Richd Senr & Jn do | 1 | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Alderton Mary | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Batley John | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Scales Robt | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Lurken John | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Reeve James | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| Leman & Webb | 1 | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Dade & Culham | 1 | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| Bower Robt | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Weston Willm | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| Hanton John | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Chambers Edmd | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Staff & Aldridge | 1 | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| Perrone Shad | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Dye John | 1 | 3 | - | - | 3 | - | - | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| Dye Green & Mason | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| Bishop Jona & Beck & Clarke | 1 | 3 | - | - | 3 | - | - | 8 | 7 | 15 |
| Bailey John | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Howes Thos | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| Hubbard Robt Junr | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Hubbard Robt Senr & Kemp | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| Smith John | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Sallows John | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Stannard Will | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| Hewit John | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Bishop Joseph | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Cook Thos | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| Harris John E Spurling & Elven | 1 | 3 | - | - | 3 | - | - | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Mason & Jeffries | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| [Totals] | 37 | 57 | - | - | 39 | 17 | 1 | 122 | 135 | 257 |
[End of Census Document]
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March 2002