1851 Census
About the 1851 census
The 1851 census was taken on the night of Sunday 30 March, 1851. The following information was gathered:
- Number of schedule (allocated consecutively from 1 in each enumeration district)
- Name of street, place, road, etc.
- House number or name
- Whether a house was inhabited, uninhabited or being built
- Name of each person that had spent the night in that household
- Relationship of person enumerated to the head of the family
- Person's marital status
- Age at last birthday (sex is indicated by which column the age is recorded in)
- Person's rank, profession, or occupation
- Person's place of birth - county and place (if outside of Scotland, only the country may be given)
- Whether blind or deaf and dumb
- Separate occupiers of a house were to be given a separate schedule.
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 |
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| 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: |
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Males |
Females |
Total |
Temporarily absent |
Temporarily present |
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| District 1 | Rural | 90 |
85 |
175 |
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| Marytown | 112 |
156 |
268 |
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| Newport | 109 |
124 |
233 |
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| Woodhaven | 38 |
41 |
79 |
|||
| Total | 349 |
406 |
755 |
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| 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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