Found at the end of Baptisms for 1800
An Act of Parliament was passed this year to ascertain the population of Great Britain. In conformity to which I have searched the Registers for a hundred years back; and have recorded the result on the next following leaf. The page after that contains the Overseers return of the present population as delivered in to the Magistrates. The Clergy send their return from the Registers to their Diocesans as I have done mine this 17th April 1801.
J. Adamson Incumbent.
Various Census Details for Padiham and District
Return for Parliament upon the Population Act. Taken March 10th 1801
Place | Houses Inhabited | By how many families | Houses uninhabited | Males | Females | Total in each family | Employed in Agriculture | Employed in Trade | Total of these 2 classes | Total |
Hapton | 67 | 67 | 3 | 199 | 196 | 395 | 60 | 141 | 194 | 395 |
Higham | 122 | 124 | 22 | 304 | 279 | 583 | 20 | 244 | 319 | 583 |
Simonstone | 55 | 59 | 2 | 164 | 134 | 298 | 28 | 144 | 126 | 298 |
In whole Parish | 626 | 667 | 30 | 1723 | 1671 | 3394 | 164 | 1494 | 1736 | 3394 |
The Decennial Census on Account of the Population of all the Township in the Parish or Parochial Chapelry of Padiham
taken the 27th and 28th days of May 1811: in pursuance of an Act of Parliament passed in the 51st of George the 3rd intituled
An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain and of the Increase or Diminution thereof
Place | Houses Inhabited | By how many families | Houses new Building | Houses uninhabited | Families chiefly employed in Agriculture | Families chiefly employed in Trade and Manufacture | All other families not comprised in the preceding classes | Males | Females | Total Number of Persons |
Simonstone | 59 | 67 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 43 | 8 | 169 | 167 | 336 |
Hapton | 96 | 97 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 66 | 253 | 280 | 533 |
Higham | 147 | 147 | 0 | 4 | 37 | 9 | 101 | 392 | 350 | 742 |
Heyhouses | 29 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 28 | 0 | 79 | 66 | 145 |
Whole Parish | 805 | 873 | 2 | 12 | 133 | 550 | 189 | 2,141 | 2,171 | 4,312 |
Ten years amounts of the Registers
Baptisms | Burials | Marriages | Year | ||
Males | Females | Males | Females | ||
46 | 46 | 46 | 56 | 17 | 1801 |
82 | 74 | 33 | 30 | 38 | 1802 |
88 | 84 | 33 | 38 | 45 | 1803 |
82 | 76 | 30 | 27 | 26 | 1804 |
74 | 49 | 30 | 32 | 28 | 1805 |
76 | 76 | 30 | 36 | 39 | 1806 |
84 | 76 | 38 | 38 | 26 | 1807 |
82 | 70 | 41 | 32 | 23 | 1808 |
68 | 65 | 63 | 70 | 34 | 1809 |
79 | 84 | 31 | 35 | 48 | 1810 |
Annual average of ten years at the Methodist Meeting
31 Baptisms 7 Burials
For the use of posterity, especially the successors of myself and my parishioners. I have been at the labor of making and recording this collections.
J. Adamson. Incumbent. July 22nd 1811
O sit mihi sors sanctis cum in coelo suis. Jehovah Soter, censori!
Census details for the neighbouring communities of Simonstone and Read are available for 1851 and 1861.
1851 Census for the Community of Simonstone - Enumeration District 5 (Folio No. 75 - 87), Piece No. HO107/2253
Index to the 1851 Census for the Community of Simonstone
1851 Census for the Community of Read - Enumeration District 4 (Folio No. 59 - 74), Piece No. HO107/2253
Index to the 1851 Census for the Community of Read
1861 Census for the Community of Simonstone - Enumeration District 13 (Folio No. 42 - 51), Piece No. RG9/3076
Index to the 1861 Census for the Community of Simonstone
1861 Census for the Community of Read - Enumeration District 14 (Folio No. 52 - 66), Piece No. RG9/3076
Index to the 1861 Census for the Community of Read
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