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Norfolk: Stratton Strawless

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Population: 1831

This 1831 Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 423/34] 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 __________ [South Erpingham]
Parish of ___________ [Stratton Strawless]

Formula, No1.

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   105
         Females 113
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         Total   218
 
 Population Enquires
 1831
 
 30th May 1831
 
     [The following was on the other side of the printed form]

Formula, No 1. County of Norfolk, Parish or __________ of ________ 

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    |
  1.| Inhabited Houses. ___________________________________   41
    | Families.         ___________________________________   41
    |
  2.| House building.   ___________________________________    0
    |
  3.| Houses uninhabited. _________________________________    0
    |
  4.| Fa  { Employed in Agriculture _______________________   20
    | mi  { In Trade,Manufacture, &c. _____________________   1
    | lies{ All other Families.   _________________________   12
    |
  5.|            {______________________________________________
    |   Males    {______________________________________________ 
    |            {________________________________________   105
    |
    |            {______________________________________________
    | Females    {______________________________________________
    |            {________________________________________   113
    |
  6.| Males upwards of 20 years ____________________________  63
    |
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    |
  7.| Agric   { Occupiers 1st Class.________________________         [Note1]
    | ulture. { Occupiers 2nd Class.________________________   
    |         { Labourers in Agriculture.___________________  21
    |
  8.| Manufacturers.________________________________________   1
    |
  9.| Retail Trade and Handicraft___________________________   6
    |
 10.| Wholesale & Capitalists, Clergy, Office - Clerks, }
    | Professional, and other Educated Men              }_____ 2
    |
 11.| Labourers, not Agricultural.____________________________ 5 
    |                                                                [Note2]
 12.| All other Males of 20 Years.____________________________ -
    |
 13.| Male      { Upwards of 20 Years.________________________ 12
                {-----------------------------------------------
    | Servants  { Under 20 Years._____________________________ 10
    | All Female Servants.____________________________________ 17
    |
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(Signed) _______________

[End of Document]

Notes

  • The following extra lines were written on the form where marked -
    • 1. "Occupiers of Land Employing Labourers 0"
      "Occupiers of Land not Employing labourers 5
    • 2. "Old and Infirm 4"

See also the Stratton Strawless parish page and the main Population page

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Copyright © Mike Bristow.
January 2006