A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



The Army at home (including militia), the men of the Royal Navy ashore, and the registered 

 seamen ashore, were not included in the population of the places where they happened to be, 

 at the time of the census, until 1841. The men of the Royal Navy and other persons on board 

 vessels (naval or mercantile) in home ports were first included in the population of those places 

 in 1 85 1. Others temporarily present, such as gipsies, persons in barges, &c., were included in 

 1841, and perhaps earlier. 



General 



Up to and including 183 1 the returns were mainly made by the overseers of the poor, and 

 more than one day was allowed for the enumeration, but the 1841-1901 returns were made under 

 the superintendence of the registration officers and the enumeration was to be completed in one 

 day. The Householder's Schedule was first used in 1841. The exact dates of the censuses are as 

 follows : — 



10 March 1801 30 May 1831 8 April i86i 6 April 1891 



27Mayi8ii 7 June 1 841 3 April 1 871 I April 190 1 



28 May 1821 31 March 1851 4 April 1881 



Notes Explanatory of the Table 



This table gives the population of the ancient county and arranges the parishes, &c., under 

 the hundred or other subdivision to which they belong, but there is no doubt that the constitution 

 of hundreds, parishes, &c., was in some cases doubtful. 



In the main the table follows the arrangement in the 1841 census volume. 



The table gives the population and area of each parish, &c., as it existed in 1801, as far as 

 possible. 



The areas are those supplied by the Ordnance Survey Department, except in the case of those 

 marked ' e,' whicli were calculated by other authorities. The area includes inland water (if any), 

 but not tidal water or foreshore. 



t after the name of a civil parish indicates that the parish was affected by the operation of 

 the Divided Parishes Acts, but the Registrar-General failed to obtain particulars of every such 

 change. The changes which escaped notification were, however, probably small in area and with 

 little, if any, population. Considerable difficulty was experienced both in 1891 and 1901 in tracing 

 the results of changes effected in civil parishes under the provisions of these Acts ; by the Registrar- 

 General's courtesy, however, reference has been permitted to certain records of formerly detached 

 parts of parishes, which has made it possible approximately to ascertain the population in 1901 

 of parishes as constituted prior to such alterations, though the figures in many instances must be 

 regarded as partly estimates. 



* after the name of a parish (or place) indicates that such parish (or place) contains a union 

 workhouse which was in use in (or before) 1851 and was still in use in 1901. 



I after the name of a parish (or place) indicates that the ecclesiastical parish of the same name 

 at the 1901 census was co-extensive with such parish (or place). 



§ after the name of a parish (or place) indicates that the civil parish of the same name at the 

 1901 census was co-extensive with such parish (or place). 



o in the table indicates that there is no population on the area in question. 



— in the table indicates that no population can be ascertained. 



The word ' chapelry ' seems often to have been used as an equivalent for ' township ' in 1841, 

 which census volume has been adopted as the standard for names and descriptions of areas. 



The figures in italics in the table relate to the area and population of such subdivisions of 

 ancient parishes as chapelries, townships, and hamlets. 



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