The Census of 1831
The census carried out in 1831, like the censuses that preceded it, was designed to obtain a range of statistical information about the population and the personal details of individuals were not retained.
Data |
Caverswall Village and parts of the Parish |
Weston Coyney and Hulme |
Total |
| Inhabited houses. |
96 |
106 |
202 |
| Number of families. |
107 |
114 |
221 |
| Houses under construction. |
2 |
1 |
3 |
| Uninhabited houses. |
5 |
3 |
8 |
| Families mainly employed and maintained by agriculture. |
48 |
56 |
104 |
| Families mainly employed in trade, manufacture or handicraft. |
42 |
51 |
93 |
| Families not employed in the two preceding classes. |
17 |
7 |
24 |
| Number of males. |
280 |
316 |
596 |
| Number of females. |
308 |
303 |
611 |
| Total Population. |
588 |
619 |
1207 |
| Males aged 20 and over. |
124 |
152 |
276 |
| Male occupiers aged 20 and over engaged in agriculture and employing others. |
6 |
14 |
20 |
| Male occupiers aged 20 and over engaged in agriculture and not employing others. |
20 |
23 |
43 |
| Males aged 20 and over employed in agriculture. |
34 |
33 |
67 |
| Males aged 20 and over employed in manufacture. |
11 |
4 |
15 |
| Males aged 20 and over employed in retail trade or in handicraft. |
43 |
46 |
89 |
| Males aged 20 and over who were wholesale merchants, bankers, capitalists, professional persons, artists, architects, teachers, clerks, surveyors and other educated men. |
3 |
7 |
10 |
| Males aged 20 and over employed as miners, fishermen, boatmen, excavators of canals, roadmakers, toll collectors or labourers of any bodily kind, excepting in agriculture. |
6 |
2 |
8 |
| Males aged 20 and over (excluding taxable servants) not included in any of the foregoing classes. Including, retired tradesmen, superannuated labourers, and males diseased or disabled in body or mind. |
0 |
18 |
18 |
| Males aged 20 and over employed as servants who were taxed or taxable as such including waiters and attendants at inns. |
1 |
5 |
6 |
| Male servants under 20 years of age. |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Female servants of any age. |
20 |
31 |
51 |
The census data has been reproduced with the kind permission of David Alan Gatley. (c 1997)