Differing Responses to an Industrialising Economy - eTheses ...

different rates over the study period, these tables afford a starting point for discussion of
occupations found in different sized populations. 20
Table 8.9 Number of different male occupations in probate in Zone A Alcester
1660-1858
Population 1660-99 1700-49 1750-99 1800-58
in 1801
Alcester 1625 35 37 34 34
Table 8.10 Number of different male occupations in probate in parishes of
Zone B The Southern (Champion) Country 1660-1858
Population 1660-99 1700-49 1750-99 1800-58
in 1801
Bidford on Avon 928 11 17 13 19
Cleeve Prior 287 4 4 3 5
Dorsington 100 3 3 1 1
Harvington 262 2 3 4 4
Long Marston 242 3 3 4 7
Pebworth 579 8 6 10 8
Salford Priors 758 6 4 4 11
Weethley 51 0 1 2 2
Welford on Avon 516 8 11 12 15
Weston on Avon 139 1 2 1 1
Southern (Champion) Country 3862 20 24 22 26
20 As the periods differ in length and in the numbers in probate this is of course a very crude measure of
occupations in different communities but allows some observations. The scope of this study did not allow a
more detailed analysis. For population totals apart from 1801 see Chapter 3. In Tables 8.9 to 8.12 yeoman,
husbandman and farmer are counted as one occupation, and needlemaker and fish-hook maker are counted as
one. Gentlemen are excluded from the figures.
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