| Parish/Town: |
Garswood, Ashton in Makerfield |
| County: |
Lancashire |
| Census Year: |
1816 |
| Location Type |
Township |
| Location/Reference # of Original Document |
Haydock, Ashton in Makerfield, Lancashire, 1816 Census [household return], Cheshire Record Office, MSS 749 |
| Location/Reference # of Additional Copies or Transcripts: |
FHL 1701022, Item 9 and FHL 1701023, Item 1 |
| Uninhabited Houses: |
0 |
| Inhabited Houses: |
0 |
| People: |
0 |
| Families: |
0 |
| Men: |
0 |
| Women: |
0 |
| Houses in Agriculture: |
0 |
| Houses in Trade: |
0 |
| Houses in Neither: |
0 |
| Individuals in Agriculture: |
0 |
| Individuals in Trade: |
0 |
| Individuals in Neither: |
0 |
| Houses Now Building: |
0 |
| Condition Of Document: |
Condition is fairly well. Handwriting is slightly faded. |
| Gaps In Content: |
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| Additional Statistics: |
Image 45: Families in the Garswood End of Ashton who have nothing to live upon: 2.
Who have less per head than one shilling a week to live upon: 4.
Less than two shillings: 31.
Less than three shillings: 87.
Less than four shillings: 39.
Number of Persons unemployed, & able to work: 40.
Average of the whole: 1048 Persons have each two shillings & five pence a week, to live upon.
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| Front Page Information: |
"A Census of the Poor in the Garswood end of Ashton taken by Edmd Sibson, Minister & Thos Latham, Overseer Decr 1816 |
| Additional Information: |
1. Where according to the average earnings of a family, each Person shall have an Income of above four Shillings a Month, no Account shall be taken of that Family.
2. Wherever different Families live in the same House, & keep only one common Purse, they shall be considered as one Family: when they keep separate Purses, they shall be considered as separate Families.
3. Particular Pains shall be taken to ascertain accurately the weekly Income of each Family: & when the Income has been fluctuating it shall be taken upon the average of the last Quarter of a year.
Abbreviations: L - Labourer employed by the Committee; C - Relieved with a Load of Coels.
Numbers following individual employments assumed to be individual income, added by census-taker to calculate family income.
/ marks indicate general separation of information.
After page 187 (on 2nd microfilm image 29), "Additional Persons relieved by Commitee" is written in large title lettering. No further page numbers are listed for the households beyond this point.
Image 44 (on 2nd microfilm) has "091" written on the left page, and on the right "State of the Poor in Garswood End" is written in large title lettering. |
| Preprinted/Freeform |
Preprinted |