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Population: 1811 & Census: 1821 and 1831

Dunston is one of the few places in the county for which a census, before 1841 containing names survives.

[Transcription copyright © Mike Bristow]

Dates of Census

  • 1811 - Only statistics available ie. no names.
  • 1821 - Heads of Households and trades.
  • 1831 - Some books indicate its existance. The Norfolk Record Office (NRO) references [Ref DUN(C)87] lead one to the LONG family (of Dunston) estate records, but all that exists is a numerical count of some sections of the population of Newton Flotman where they also owned land.
  • 1841 - National census transcription.

Population in 1811

This 1811 NRO entry [Ref DUN(C)81] only gives statistics from 1811-1820 and contains the following :-

 
                               1821 Dunston
                               ------------
           Baptisms                Burials
       Males  Females  Total   Males  Females  Total   Year Marriages
 1811             1      1                             1811    1    
 1812    2               2       3               3     1812
 1813    1                                             1813    2
 1814    2               2                             1814
 1815                                                  1815    1
 1816             2      2                             1816
 1817    1        1      2       1        2      3     1817    1
 1818    3               3       1               1     1818
 1819    1        1      2       2               2     1819    1
 1820    2        2      4       1        3      4     1820    2
        --       --     --      --       --     --            --
 Total  12        8     20       8        5     13             8

Diocese of Norwich, County of Norfolk, Deanery of Humbleyard

 

[End of Document]

1821 Census

This 1821 census for Dunston [NRO Ref DUN(C)80] contains the following:-

1821 - [Names] Males Fem Total [Trade]
Revd. Mr. Longs Family     5   12   17  
Lady H Boyce     1     6     7  
Robert Carpenter     5     2     7 Agriculture
W Brighten     2     2     4 Do
John Leggatt     1     1     2 Do
Samual Dady     4     3     7 Do
Stephen Smith     1     4     5 Do
William Leggatt     3     4     7 Do
Charles Brighten     1     3     4 Trade
Edjester Wickham     1     1     2  
George Beauty     2     2     4 Agriculture
Widow Waller     3     3     6 Do
John Brows     2     2     4 Trade
Simon Jackson     3     3     6 Do
Daniel Andrews     5     1     6 Do
Richard New     2     1     3 Do
John Butcher     2     1     3 Do
William Turrell     2     2     4 Do
Jeremiah Lincoln     2     2     4 Trade
Joseph Parfitt     4     3     7 Agriculture
George Fish     1     1     2  
[Totals]   52   59 111  

Twenty inhabited Houses containing Twenty Families
Sixteen Families supported by agriculture
Two in Trade
Two Independent
Taken in the Year 1821

1821 Accounts of the Population in Dunston.

 

[End of Census Document]

Notes

It appeared on the original as if the occupation in the entry for Charles Brighten was rubbed out. This would then give Mr. Brows & Mr. Lincoln in Trade, Revd. Long & Lady Boyce as Independent and the rest in Agriculture (even though the "Do" for ditto was missing).

See also the Dunston parish page and the main Census page

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Copyright © Mike Bristow.
February 2002