of," written Answers are to be returned by the Rector, Vicar, Curate, or officiating Minister, and Overseers of the Poor, or by some other substantial Householder of every Parish, Township, and Place (including those Places also which are Extra-parochial), in England; and by the Schoolmasters, or other Persons to be appointed under the said Act, for every Parish and Place in Scotland; signed by them respectively, and attested upon Oath or Affirmation by the said Overseers, or by such other substantial Householders as aforesaid in England, and by the Schoolmasters or other such Persons as aforesaid in Scotland. QUESTIONS addressed to the OVERSEERS in England, and to the SCHOOLMASTERS in Scotland: Who are respectively required to take an Account of the resident Population, by proceeding from House to House on the Thirtieth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and on the Days immediately subsequent thereto, if One Day shall not be sufficient; and they are also required to specify in Writing the Name of the Parish or Place in the Schedule, and whether it be usually called a Parish, Township, Tithing, Quarter, or by what other Denomination. 1st. How many inhabited Houses are there in your Parish, Township, or Place; and by how many Families are they occupied? 2nd. How many Houses are now building, and therefore not yet inhabited? 3rd. How many other Houses are uninhabited? N. B. The total Number of Families in answer to this Question must correspond with the Number of Families in answer to the First Question; and if any Doubt shall arise as to the Class in which any Family or Families ought to be comprised, such Doubt is to be stated as a Remark (under Question Sixteenth), not omitting therein to specify in which Class such Family or Families may have been comprised in your Answer to the Fourth Question. 5th. How many Persons (including Children of whatever Age) are there actually found within the Limits of your Parish, Township, or Place, at the Time of taking this Account; distinguishing Males and Females, and exclusive of Men actually serving in. His Majesty's Regular Forces, or in the Militia, and exclusive of Seamen, either in His Majesty's Service or belonging to registered Vessels? 6th. How many of the Males enumerated in answer to the 5th Question, are upwards of Twenty Years old? N. B. If this Number of Males upwards of Twenty Years old should differ materially [or otherwise as compared to the Return of 1821] from One Half of the total Number of Males [in answer to Question 5th], some Error has probably been committed, and the Answer to this Question should be examined, and corrected, if necessary. 7th. How 7th. How many Males upwards of Twenty Years old are employed in Agriculture, including Graziers, Cowkeepers, Shepherds, and other Farm Servants, Gardeners (not taxable as Male Servants), and Nurserymen? In answering this Question, you will carefully distinguish these Males into Three Classes; viz. First, Occupiers of Land who constantly employ and pay One or more than One Labourer or Farm Servant in Husbandry; Secondly, Occupiers of Land who employ no Labourer other than of their own Family; Thirdly, Labourers in Husbandry and Farm Servants employed by Occupiers of the First Class. 8th. How many Males upwards of Twenty Years old are employed in Manufacture or in making Manufacturing Machinery; but not including Labourers, Porters, Messengers, &c., who are to be included in a subsequent Class? 9th. How many Males upwards of Twenty Years old are employed in Retail Trade or in Handicraft, as Masters, Shopmen, Journeymen, Apprentices, or in any Capacity requiring Skill in the Business; but not including Labourers, Porters, Messengers, &c., who are to be included in a subsequent Class? N. B. To enable you to answer this Question in a Manner satisfactory to yourself, a Sheet containing a List of the Denominations of several Trades is transmitted herewith, with blank Spaces for your Use in Entry of the Answers you obtain; it being understood that if any Trade or Business carried on in your Parish or Place does not appear in the printed List, you will specify such Trade at Bottom of the said List, making a Mark for each Male opposite to the Denomination of his proper Trade or Business, and adding all together for final Entry in the Schedule; to which Schedule you will annex the said printed List, with your original Entries thereon. 10th. How many Males upwards of Twenty Years old are Wholesale Merchants, Bankers, Capitalists, Professional Persons, Artists, Architects, Teachers, Clerks, Surveyors, and other Educated Men? And in answering this Question, you will include generally Persons maintaining themselves otherwise than by Manufacture, Trade, or bodily Labour. 11th. How many Males upwards of Twenty Years old are Miners, Fishermen, Boatmen, Excavators of Canals, Roadmakers, Toll Collectors, or Labourers employed by Persons of the Three preceding Classes, or otherwise employed in any Kind of bodily Labour, excepting in Agriculture? Labourers in Agriculture having been already entered in the proper Place. 12th. How many other Males upwards of Twenty Years old (not being taxable Servants under the next Question) have not been included in any of the foregoing Classes? Including, therefore, in answer to this Question, retired Tradesmen, superannuated Labourers, and Males diseased or disabled in Body or Mind. 13th. How many Household Servants, including all Female Servants, and such Male Servants (of whatever Age) as are taxable as such; also Waiters and Attendants at Inns; distinguishing distinguishing the Males upwards of Twenty Years of Age, from the Males under Twenty Years of Age? N. B. Observe that the Number of Males, in answer to Questions 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th collectively, cannot be less than the Number of Males upwards of Twenty Years old, in answer to Question 6th; but will exceed that Number in consequence of including Male Servants under Twenty Years of Age; and, as a general Rule, always assign an Individual of mixed Occupation or Income to that by which he is supposed to profit more than by any other. 14th. If you have entered any Males in answer to the 8th Question, be pleased to specify the Manufacture or Manufactures in which they are employed; and what Proportion of the Number of those entered in answer to Question 11th are employed in any Quarry, Mines, Coal Pits, Fishery, or public Work now in progress? 15th. Referring to the Number of Persons in One thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, to what Cause do you attribute any remarkable Difference in the Number at present? 16th. Are there any other Matters which you may think it necessary to remark in Explanation of your Answers to any of the preceding Questions? QUESTIONS addressed to the OFFICIATING MINISTERS in England, having Custody of a Register which is not copied into the Register of a Mother Church, by whom a Return is to be made to the Bishop on or before the Twenty-first Day of June One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. 1st. What was the Number of Baptisms and Burials in your Parish or Chapelry in the several Years 1821, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30; distinguishing Males from Females? 2nd. What has been the Number of Marriages in your Parish or Chapelry in the several Years 1821, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30? 3rd. Be pleased to specify, on the Schedule annexed for that Purpose, the Ages of Individuals registered in your Burial Register in the several Years from 1813 to 1830, both inclusive. 4th. What Number of illegitimate Children may have been born in your Parish or Chapelry during the Year 1830, according to the best Information you possess or can obtain ; and distinguishing Male and Female Children? 5th. Are there any Matters which you think it necessary to remark, in explanation of your Answers to either of the preceding Questions? Especially, whether any and what annual average Number of Births, Deaths, and Marriages may, in your Opinion, have taken place in your Parish, without being noticed in the Parish Register? |