1801, 1811, 1821 & 1831 Censuses
Published information from the censuses of 1801, 1811, 1821 & 1831 is purely statistical.
Information about the number of houses, the number of families and the broadest of occupation groupings was given. They also record the number of males and females.
In the occupation groupings, the 1801 return refers to Persons in each of the groups. The total number of Persons equals the total number of males.
In later years Persons is changed to Families and the total equals the total number of families.
| 1801 | 1811 | 1821 | 1831 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houses | ||||
| Inhabited | 205 | 189 | 187 | 211 |
| By how many families occipied | 219 | 206 | 205 | 238 |
| Building [not included 1801] | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Uninhabited | 20 | 18 | 12 | 6 |
| Occupations | ||||
| Families [Persons in 1801] chiefly employed in agriculture | 85 | 75 | 66 | 61 |
| Families [Persons in 1801] chiefly employed in Trade, Manufactures, or Handicraft | 65 | 60 | 85 | 51 |
| All other families [persons in 1801] not comprised in the Two preceding Classes | 282 | 71 | 54 | 126 |
| Persons | ||||
| Male | 432 | 410 | 423 | 532 |
| Female | 484 | 488 | 514 | 558 |
| Total of persons | 916 | 898 | 937 | 1090 |
| Additional for 1831 | ||||
| Males 20 Years of Age [& over] | 251 | |||
| Agriculture: Occupiers employing Labourers | 10 | |||
| Agriculture: Occupiers not employing Labourers | 5 | |||
| Agriculture: Labourers employed in Agriculture | 68 | |||
| Employed in Manufacture, or in making Manufacturing Machinery | 7 | |||
| Employed in Retail Trade, or in Handicraft as Masters or Workmen | 79 | |||
| Capitalists, Bankers, Professional and other Educated Men | * 1 | |||
| Labourers employed in Labor not Agriculture | 65 | |||
| Other Males 20 Years of Age [& over] (except Servants) | 4 | |||
| Male Servants: 20 Years of Age [& over] | 2 | |||
| Male Servants: Under 20 Years | - | |||
| Female Servants | 53 | |||
| [* The total of working men of 20+ years of age is short by 10 - it should equal 251. The error is possibly in the column 'Capitalists, Bankers, Professional and other Educated Men' - every other parish in the area has more than Forgan.] | ||||
| Comment for 1831: In the parish of Forgan a number of handicraftsmen are temporarily employed in erecting a Gentleman's Seat | ||||
There was an earlier counting of the population of Scotland - Webster's 'Account of the Population of Scotland in 1755' - undertaken by the parish ministers. This recorded a population of 751 for Forgan parish. Copy at National Records of Scotland.
Sources:
Account of the Number of People in Scotland in the Year 1755 by Alexander Webster (in Scottish History Society Publications, Third Series, vol. XLIV, p. 40, 1952). - copy at National Records of Scotland.
At Histpop, the online historical population reports website:
Census of Great Britain, 1801, Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an Act, passed in the forty-first year of His Majesty King George III. intituled "An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and the increase or diminution thereof". Enumeration. Part I. England and Wales. Part II. Scotland BPP 1801-02 VI (9) 524
Census of Great Britain, 1811, Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an Act, passed in the fifty-first year of His Majesty King George III. intituled "An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution thereof". Preliminary observations. Enumeration abstract BPP 1812 XI (316) 486
Census of Great Britain, 1821, Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an Act, passed in the first year of the reign of His Majesty King George IV, intituled, "An Act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution thereof". Preliminary observations. Enumeration abstract. Parish register abstract, 1821 BPP 1822 XV (502) 508
Census of Great Britain, 1831, Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an Act, passed in the eleventh year of the reign of His Majesty King George IV. intituled, "An Act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution thereof." Enumeration Abstract. Vol. II. 1831 BPP 1833 XXXVII (149) 976, 977
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