Analysis of the Census of 1881

The data are presented on 20 sheets, perhaps by the Mormon Church survey & headed.

Cooperative indexing programme GS number 1341435 ref No RG11/1804 folio 147.

Number of Households	Occupied	Unoccupied	Comments
Stambourne Green has	13	2	with 59 souls = 13.6 %;
Chapel End	25	2
Mill Road	7	1
Westley(sic) End	3	9	uninhabited include the New Barne ‑ probably the bricks by the side of the Ridgewell footpath ‑ & 2 dwellings in Pitiful Wood[sic]
Church Road	8
Yeldham Road	5		[this is my description; the census does not use this word in 1881]
Dyers End	20	2
Craig’s Road	9	2	[this postal address is now Finchingfield Rd]
Robin Hood End	10	1
Bushey	1		occupied by 3 Harringtons ‑ where is it ?
?New House	1		Occ: by Joseph Smith, aet 30 & 6 of his family: New Ho Fm is occupied by Wm Smith, aet 57 & 3 family: where is this ?
Nr Round Ho	2		occupied by 4 Westleys & 3 Buntings [where are these ?]
Total of Houses	104	19	[9 of these 19 are in Wes[t]ley End]

Size of Families

• There are 7 children in the families of Bowyer, Dains, two Martin households & Rhodes
• There 6 Hardy & Wiffen children
• Clark, Fitch, Hardy, Mickley & Smith have 5 children apiece.

Population

• From the 20 pp I compute 435 souls which = the published census figure of 434

Occupations

• Farmers 7
  • widow 1
  • bailiff 1
• Farm Labourers 89
• Cow boy 1 [he also claims to be an agricultural labourer]
• Shepherds 2
• 101 employed in Farming

• Pork Butcher 1
• Grocer 2
• Baker 1
  • both 1
• 5 people are suppliers of food

• Tailoress 1
• Seamstress 1
• Plain needle work 1
• Dress maker 4
• Boot maker 1
• Shoe maker 1
• Laundress 2
• 11 people are providers of clothing

• Goveress (sic) 1
• Domestic servant 8
• General servant 3
• Errand boy 2
• Shop assistant 1
• Housekeeper 5
• Groom 3
• 20 only are in service [but some housekeepers are materae familiae]

• Straw Plai(t)ter 87
• Thatcher 3
• Blacksmith 3
• Brickmaker 1
• Carpenter 5
• C. miller 1 presumably a corn miller
• Harness maker 1
• 101 claim some skilled manual trade; 86%of these are the straw plaiters

• School mistress 1
  • assistant 1
  • moniter(sic) 1
• Scholars 91
• 94 are occupied in education

• Rector 1
• Independent Minister 1
  • his wife 1
• 3 persons profess religious occupations

• Marine store dealer 1
• Carter 1
• Inn keeper 2
• 4 persons are independent traders

No named occupation[the record is a long dash] is given for 85 persons
“No occupation” [sic] is specified for the 78y.o. owner of Lit Tagleys 1
The space is left blank for 1 infant & 3 young wives 4
Invalid debility 1
Bedridden 1
If there were any genuine unemployed they are among these 92 persons

These analytical figures account for all 434 persons recorded in the 1881 British census transcription & recorded in my table of censuses for that year.

Birthplace

• Essex
  • The majority were born in Stambourne or in one of the half dozen nearby villages; others are:
  • B…..illegible
  • Birdbrook
  • Cressing
  • Danbury
  • Gt Bardfield
  • Halstead
  • Henney
  • Layer Bretton
  • Little Maplestead
  • Newport
    
• Cambridgeshire
  • Castle Camps [2]
  • Linton
  • N O S
    
• Huntingdonshire
  • Old Weston
    
• H….illegible [may be a town or county]
  
• Suffolk
  • B….illegible
  • Haverhill [2]
  • Hundon
  • Long Melford
  • Kedington
  • O…..illegible
  • Stoke [4 souls; an interesting persistence of the connection with the College]
  • Sudbury [3]
    
• Middlesex
  • London
    
• Lancashire
  • Burnley The Revd Alfred Master
    
• B…..illegibleshire
  • Marston

Thus only 2 persons, The Rector & a young wife, came from further than a day’s walk away.

Most of the outlying villages are within 10 miles and those in Suffolk & Cambridgeshire are just over the border.

7.1 % only come from outlying districts of which a mere 0.7 % were not born in Essex, Suffolk or Cambridgeshire nearby.

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