The Census of Great Britain in 1851: Comprising an Account of the Numbers and Distribution of the People, Their Ages, Conjugal Condition, Occupations, and Birth Place; with Returns of the Blind, the Deaf-and-dumb, and the Inmates of Public Institutions. And an Analytical Index. Reprinted, in a Condensed Form, from the Offical Reports and TablesLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 - 200 pages |
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... , in several instances , been omitted , to adapt the book for popular reading . For the same reason the per - centages and proportions are frequently stated in whole numbers in lieu of the decimal quantities given in the.
... , in several instances , been omitted , to adapt the book for popular reading . For the same reason the per - centages and proportions are frequently stated in whole numbers in lieu of the decimal quantities given in the.
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... whole of the People have been Classified 44 45 56 56 VI . BIRTHPLACE OF THE PEOPLE . Foreigners in Great Britain and British Subjects abroad . Numbers and Proportions of the Popu- lation born in England and Wales , Scotland , and ...
... whole of the People have been Classified 44 45 56 56 VI . BIRTHPLACE OF THE PEOPLE . Foreigners in Great Britain and British Subjects abroad . Numbers and Proportions of the Popu- lation born in England and Wales , Scotland , and ...
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... whole surface of the country was divided into suitable Districts , and an equal number of Enumerators ap- pointed . Provision was thus made for obtain- ing an account of all persons residing on land ; the enumeration of the persons on ...
... whole surface of the country was divided into suitable Districts , and an equal number of Enumerators ap- pointed . Provision was thus made for obtain- ing an account of all persons residing on land ; the enumeration of the persons on ...
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... whole of the number , including the part of the army stationed in Ireland , as well as the part of the army and navy abroad , belonging properly to Ireland , was added to the population of Great Britain . The result was an evident ...
... whole of the number , including the part of the army stationed in Ireland , as well as the part of the army and navy abroad , belonging properly to Ireland , was added to the population of Great Britain . The result was an evident ...
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... whole , that no better day in 1851 could be fixed on , to avoid their interference , than the last day of March ; which was also the month in which the first Census of Great Britain was taken . 1851 was the year of the Great Exhi ...
... whole , that no better day in 1851 could be fixed on , to avoid their interference , than the last day of March ; which was also the month in which the first Census of Great Britain was taken . 1851 was the year of the Great Exhi ...
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age and upwards age of 20 Annual rate Annual Value army assessed to Property Bachelors Bachelors Husbands Belonging to Church BIRTH-PLACE Blind born Britain British Seas Burghs Census CONJUGAL CONDITION Counties of England counties of Scotland County returns Deaf and Dumb dealer England and Wales enumerated families Farmers following Trades Herefordshire HOUSES IN 1851 Husbands INCREASE OF POPULATION Inhabited Houses Ireland Islands Kirkcudbright Stewartry Lancashire living London Lunatics in Asylums maker marriage married Members to Parliament merchant Monmouthshire Navy Northern Counties Northern Division number of persons occupations officers parish Paupers Persons aged 20 Physicians & Surgeons POPULATION AND HOUSES POPULATION IN 1851 PRINCIPAL TOWNS Prisoners proportion Real Property Real Property assessed REGISTRATION COUNTY REGISTRATION COUNTY Population RELIGIOUS WORSHIP Scotland Shoemakers Spinsters Square Miles Statute Acres sub-class Sunday Scholars Surrey Table tion Total United Kingdom Unmarried Value of Real Western Division widows Wives youths ΙΟ
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Page 32 - And they shall build houses, and inhabit them ; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit ; they shall not plant, and another eat : for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Page 31 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 47 - Promiscuous use of concubine and bride, Then Israel's monarch after Heaven's own heart His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves, and, wide as his command, Scattered his Maker's image through the land.
Page 32 - There shall be no more thence an infant of days, Nor an old man that hath not filled his days: For the child shall die an hundred years old; But the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Page 51 - Would you your son should be a sot or dunce, Lascivious, headstrong, or all these at once ; That in good time the stripling's finish'd taste For loose expense and fashionable waste Should prove your ruin, and his own at last ; Train him in public with a mob of boys, Childish in mischief only and in noise, Else of a mannish growth, and five in ten In infidelity and lewdness men.
Page 30 - In the last century of his life he was a fisherman, and used to trade in the streams; his diet Was coarse and sour, but towards the latter end of his days he begged up and down. He hath sworn in Chancery, and other courts, to above 140 years...
Page 51 - ... or allowed him, in acquiring a great fund of premature and useful knowledge. Thus, by the unaccountable relation of causes and effects, what seemed the greatest misfortune of his life was, perhaps, the principal cause of its splendour.
Page 51 - ... for conveying useful information, and just notions of persons and things. When his lordship's health would permit, he never suffered a day to pass without giving instruction of some sort to his children ; and seldom without reading a chapter of the Bible with them.
Page 47 - He never had but two avowed mistresses of rank, the Countesses of Suffolk and Yarmouth. The former, though he passed half his time with her, had no degree of influence, and but a small one of profit ; the latter, being taken after the death of the Queen, had more of both, but no extravagant share of either. He was very well-bred ; but it was in a stiff and formal manner, and produced in others...
Page 55 - ... years. Thus — if we take this indication— the means of subsistence have increased faster than the numbers of the people ; for while the population has doubled, the value of capital under investment, at 3 per cent, compound interest, has quadrupled.* The PRODUCE of Great Britain, which in the present state of commerce is always convertible into the "means of subsistence...