Differing Responses to an Industrialising Economy - eTheses ...

Table 7.5 (baptisms) gives more realistic proportions than the probate and
marriage licence sources. It is noticeable that during Period D the primary sector’s share
continued to fall, while both secondary and tertiary grew.
Table 7.6 Male occupational structure in specific groupings from Anglican baptism
registers in Zone D, Northern (Needle) District 1813-40 (as % of entries showing fathers’
occupations)
1813-40 1813-20 1821-30 1831-40
Agriculture (excl. labourers) 6.6 8.7 6.5 5.4
All labourers 33.3 36.4 34.2 30.4
Agricultural labourers * 25.1 27.4 25.8 22.9
Non-agricultural labourers * 8.2 9.0 8.4 7.5
Extractive 1.2 0.9 1.0 1.7
Building (excl. carpenters) 2.7 2.5 2.2 3.4
Tailors/bodice makers 1.3 1.0 1.4 1.5
Other textile, clothing & paper manufacture 0.5 0.9 0.5 0.3
Shoemakers/cordwainers 4.3 3.4 4.3 4.8
Other leather, horn and tallow 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.3
Carpenters/joiners 3.1 3.5 3.3 2.5
Other woodworkers 2.7 2.9 3.0 2.2
Blacksmiths/farriers 1.9 2.2 1.2 2.3
Other metal (excl. needles/hooks/pins) 0.6 0.4 0.9 0.5
Needles/hooks/pins 32.6 29.5 33.3 34.1
Transport 0.8 0.6 0.7 1.0
Innkeepers/victuallers 1.0 0.8 0.7 1.5
Other food, retail, service, dealing 4.2 3.2 4.3 4.8
Domestic servants 1.0 1.1 0.7 1.1
Professional 1.6 1.3 1.2 2.1
Total baptisms (n) 7825 2003 2860 2962
*Labourers allocated using information from the 1831 census.
Table 7.6 confirms that approximately a third of fathers were in the needle and
fishing tackle trade in Period D. The comparison of businesses in the new ‘town’ of
Redditch and the traditional market town of Alcester in 1835 trade directories reveals the
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