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Table 5.6 Male occupational structure in specific groupings from Anglican baptism
registers in Zone B, Southern (Champion) Country 1813-40 (as % of entries showing
fathers’ occupations)
1813-40 1813-20 1821-30 1831-40
Agriculture (excl. labourers) 9.5 9.0 10.4 9.1
All labourers 67.0 67.8 65.7 67.6
Agricultural labourers * 64.9 65.7 63.6 65.5
Non-agricultural labourers * 2.1 2.1 2.0 2.1
Extractive 3.7 4.4 4.2 2.8
Building (excl. carpenters) 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.4
Tailors/bodice makers 0.9 0.6 0.5 1.4
Other textile, clothing & paper manufacture 1.1 1.7 1.0 0.6
Shoemakers/cordwainers 3.5 3.3 3.5 3.5
Other leather, horn and tallow 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2
Carpenters/joiners 2.7 2.8 3.1 2.4
Other woodworkers 1.7 1.6 1.3 2.2
Blacksmiths/farriers 1.6 1.0 1.6 2.1
Other metal (excl. needles/hooks/pins) 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.3
Needles/hooks/pins 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Transport 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.9
Innkeepers/victuallers 0.4 0.2 0.3 0.6
Other food, retail, service, dealing 3.9 4.0 4.5 3.3
Domestic servants 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.3
Professional 1.3 1.7 1.2 1.2
Total baptisms (n) 3877 1087 1360 1430
*Labourers allocated using information from the 1831 census.
Table 5.6 confirms the low numbers of workers in metal and leather suggested in
probate and marriage licences. Despite rare references to needlemakers in other sources
this table confirms that this southern zone never really embraced the needle trade.
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