SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY 



TABLE OF POPULATION, 1801 — 1901 {continued) 



General Notes for Durham 



1. Many of the great fluctuations in the population of some of the places in the Table are 

 occasioned by the expansion or depression of the coal-mining industry. 



2. The abnormal increases in population in 1831 and 1841 of some of the places in the 

 Table are mainly due to the presence of labourers on railway vi'ork. 



1 Sockburn — The part in Durham is known as Sockburn Township. The remainder of thi-; Ancient Parish is in 

 Yorkshire (North Ridms). 



^ Castle Precincts and Site of Old Gaol. — Castle Precincts in 1801, 1811, and 1831 was included in St. Mary-le-Boui 

 Parish. Site of Old Gaol included in St. Mary-Ie-Bow Parish in 1801, and in 1811-31 in St. Mary-the-Less Parish 

 Rightly shown together 1841-1901. 



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