Norfolk: Wroxham

Population: 1831

This 1831 Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 390/91] 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 ------
Hundred of Taverham
Parish of Wroxham

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   180
         Females 188
                 ---
         Total   368
 
 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 Wroxham

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    |
  1.| Inhabited Houses. ___________________________________   75
    | Families.         ___________________________________   --
    |
  2.| House building.   ___________________________________   --
    |
  3.| Houses uninhabited. _________________________________    2
    |
  4.| Fa  { Employed in Agriculture _______________________   51
    | mi  { In Trade,Manufacture, &c. _____________________   14
    | lies{ All other Families.   _________________________   10
    |
  5.|            {______________________________________________
    |   Males    {______________________________________________ 
    |            {________________________________________   180
    |
    |            {______________________________________________
    | Females    {______________________________________________
    |            {________________________________________   188
    |
  6.| Males upwards of 20 years ____________________________  99
    |
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    |
  7.| Agric   { Occupiers 1st Class.________________________   6
    | ulture. { Occupiers 2nd Class.________________________  --
    |         { Labourers in Agriculture.___________________  48
    |
  8.| Manufacturers.________________________________________  --
    |
  9.| Retail Trade and Handicraft___________________________  31
    |
 10.| Wholesale & Capitalists, Clergy, Office - Clerks, }
    | Professional, and other Educated Men              }____  3
    |
 11.| Labourers, not Agricultural.___________________________ --
  
 12.| All other Males of 20 Years.___________________________  4
    |
 13.| Male      { Upwards of 20 Years._______________________  7
                {-----------------------------------------------
    | Servants  { Under 20 Years.____________________________  5
    | All Female Servants.___________________________________ 19
    |
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(Signed) John Culling
    Overseer

[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 Wroxham parish page and the main Population page

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February 2007