SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY 



TABLE OF POPULATION, 1801— igoi 



Ancient or Geogra- 

 pliical County '■ 



Acre- 

 age 



649.352 



1801 



1811 



149,384164,463 



1821 



1831 



1841 1851 



193.511:239.256307,963390,997 



1861 



508,666 



1871 



685,089 



867,258 



1891 



1,016,454 



igoi 



1,187,361 



1 Ancient County. — The county as defined by the Act 7 & 8 Vic. c. 61, which reduced Durham to the following 

 extent: — (i) Craike Parish was annexed to Yorkshire (North Riding), and (2) Bedlington Parish and the whole of 

 Islandshire and Norhamshire were added to Northumberland. 



The area is taken from the 1901 Census Volume and includes certain lands common to two or more Parishes 

 (or Places), which uninhabited lands, however, are not included in the areas of the Parishes (or Places) to which 

 they jointly belong. 



The 1811 population is exclusive of 830 militiamen, who were not assigned to the places to which they 

 belonged. 



' Gateshead. — In 1821 seamen belonging to registered vessels included. 



' Heworth. — The 1841 population e.\cludes 118 seamen in vessels. 



* In 1S31, i.oSo seamen in South Shields and 1,037 'n Westoe were excluded from the populations of those places. 



* Monkwearmouth Shore. — In 1841 the population includes 119 mariners at sea belonging to it. 



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