Differing Responses to an Industrialising Economy - eTheses ...

The 1841 census has lower figures for adult males in primary and higher for those
in secondary when compared with baptisms for 1813-1840. This may indicate that the
swing away from primary was intensifying circa 1840. Tertiary is also higher in the
census than in baptisms, perhaps partly explained by unmarried males in their twenties
working as domestic servants. Table 6.7 also shows the role of women and those under
20, though the totals in these columns suggest much under-recording in these gender and
age groups when compared with adult males. 19
Table 6.8 Occupational structure in specific groupings from the 1841 census in Zone C,
Central (Wood-pasture) Belt (as % of entries showing occupations in each gender and
age group)
Males
20+
Females
20+
Males
under 20
Females
under 20
Agriculture (excl. labourers) 13.1 6.2 1.2 1.3
All labourers 54.9 31.0 40.7 9.7
Agricultural labourers 48.5 25.0 36.0 9.7
Non-agricultural labourers 6.4 6.0 4.7 0.0
Extractive 0.8 0.0 0.8 0.0
Building (excl. carpenters) 4.5 0.0 0.8 0.0
Tailors/bodice makers/dressmakers 0.5 3.3 0.8 1.9
Other textile, clothing & paper manufacture 1.0 0.7 0.0 0.0
Shoemakers/cordwainers 3.0 0.7 1.9 0.0
Other leather, horn and tallow 0.1 7.7 0.0 1.3
Carpenters/joiners 2.9 0.2 1.2 0.0
Other woodworkers 2.6 0.0 1.6 0.0
Blacksmiths/farriers 2.7 0.3 1.2 0.0
Metal (excl. needles/hooks/pins) 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0
Needles/hooks/pins 1.0 1.0 0.0 1.3
Transport 0.7 0.3 0.0 0.0
Innkeepers/victuallers 1.3 0.7 0.0 0.0
Other food, retail, service, dealing 3.0 2.3 0.4 0.0
Domestic servants/charwomen/nurses 6.3 43.0 49.6 84.4
Professional 1.3 2.7 0.0 0.0
Total (n) 1649 300 258 154
Table 6.8 emphasises the role of females and young males in domestic service,
although many of the male servants were resident on farms and were perhaps in reality
19 For comparison with other zones see Appendix 26.
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