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Table 7.16 Male occupational structure in Sambourne from Coughton baptism register
1813-1840 (showing percentage of fathers with known occupations)
1813-
1820
1821-
1830
1831-
1840
Primary (with agricultural labourers) * 35.4 31.4 38.6
Primary (without labourers) 10.9 7.7 4.6
Secondary (with other labourers) * 64.6 65.1 57.5
Secondary (without labourers) 48.2 49.3 34.9
Tertiary 0.0 3.5 3.9
Needlemakers & fish-hook makers 30.0 30.3 26.3
All labourers 40.9 39.4 56.6
Total males with known occupations (n) 110 142 152
* Labourers allocated to primary or secondary sectors using information from the 1831 census.
The comparison of Table 7.16 with Table 7.14 above demonstrates the deindustrialisation
of Sambourne from the 1720s to 1840. 37
Table 7.17 Male occupational structure in Coughton (without Sambourne) from baptism
registers 1813-1840 (shown as a percentage of fathers with known occupations)
1813-
1820
1821-
1830
1831-
1840
Primary (with agricultural labourers) * 61.9 62.6 48.8
Primary (without labourers) 0.0 5.8 0.0
Secondary (with other labourers) * 24.9 28.7 36.6
Secondary (without labourers) 9.4 14.5 24.4
Tertiary 13.2 8.7 14.6
Needlemakers & fish-hook makers 0.0 4.3 14.6
All labourers 77.4 71.0 61.0
Total males with known occupations (n) 53 69 41
Tables 7.16 and 7.17 show that the different occupational structures of Coughton
and Sambourne continued in the nineteenth century. Many needlemakers in Coughton
37 Table 7.16 refers only to known residents of Sambourne. The de-industrialisation is discussed in the
Metal section later in this chapter.
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