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The Newport, Wormit & Forgan Archive

1851 Census

About the 1851 census

The 1851 census was taken on the night of Sunday 30 March, 1851. The following information was gathered:

The remainder of this page is transcribed in full from the census returns.

The parish was split into 2 Enumeration Districts:

Enumeration District 1

First or Northern District:
Farm of Wormit, villages of Woodhaven, Newport & Marytown and the farms of Tayfield, Craighead, Causewayhead & Inverdovat. Bounded on the north by the River Tay, on the west by the parish of Balmerino, on the east by the parish of Ferry Port on Craig and on the south by the farms of Newton, Flass, St Fort, East & West Friartons and Kirkton.
Mathew Smith, Enumerator.

Enumeration District 2

Second or Southern District:
Comprising the farms of Newton, Flass, St Fort, Upper, West & East Friarton, Kirkton and Morton. Bounded on the south by the parishes of Leuchars and Logie, on the east by the parish of Ferry Port on Craig, on the west by the parish of Kilmany and on the north by the farms of Wormit, Tayfield, Inverdovat & Causewayhead.
Andrew Black, Enumerator.

Notes appended by the Minister of the Parish:

The census of 1851 compared with that of 1841 shows a decrease of 99 persons. It is to be remarked on thus: that the former census was taken in the month of July in which and other months the village of Newport is filled with visitors who occupy lodgings therein for change of air.
Counting the numbers for this and considering the new houses built and occupied in the parish I should estimate an increase in the population of about 40.
Total children from 13 years and under is 334, of whom entered as 'scholar' are 241, a very few being above 13.
The youngest parishoner on the night of 30th March was an infant of 2 hours. The oldest a man of 92 years. Number of persons 70 and upwards is 34.
The employment of the people is mostly agricultural and their habits sober and industrious.
(signed) David Thomson, Minister of Forgan.

Statistics

 
Separate occupiers
Houses:
Inhabited
Uninhabited
Building
District 1 Rural
40
39
2
-
  Marytown
59
55
12
-
  Newport
61
49
6
2
  Woodhaven
21
18
2
-
  Total
181
161
22
2
District 2  
84
81
2
-
Total  
265
242
24
2
 

 
Persons:
   
 
Males
Females
Total
Temporarily absent
Temporarily present
District 1 Rural
90
85
175
   
  Marytown
112
156
268
   
  Newport
109
124
233
  Woodhaven
38
41
79
   
  Total
349
406
755
   
District 2  
186
179
365
Total  
535
585
1120
none
none
 
[There are 5 others included in the published statistics: an estimated 5 males, the crew of a cutter in Newport harbour. No other information about this vessel is available, and the return was not included with those returned by the Customs Officers to the Census Office in London.]
['Temporarily absent' or 'temporarily present' in the 1851 census were only to be estimated when many people were involved.]

 

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