Differing Responses to an Industrialising Economy - eTheses ...

Contents
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Chapter One - Introduction: the Aims, Area and Period of Study 1
Chapter Two - Sources and Methodology 8
Chapter Three – Population 48
Chapter Four – Zone A: Alcester, the market town 68
Chapter Five – Zone B: The Southern (Champion) Country 139
Chapter Six – Zone C: The Central (Wood-pasture) Belt 188
Chapter Seven – Zone D: The Northern (Needle) District 239
Chapter Eight - General Conclusions and Pointers to Further Research 338
Appendix 1 Parish Gazetteer 370
Appendix 1a Map of parishes in the Study Area 386
Appendix 2 Occupational groupings and descriptors 388
Appendix 3 Probate inventory values 395
Appendix 4 1801 census: summary of occupational information 396
Appendix 5 1811, 1821 and 1831 census: summaries of occupational 396
information
Appendix 6 1811, 1821 and 1831 census: occupational information
by zone 397
Appendix 7 1831 census: information on percentages of females
and males and also on labourers 397
Appendix 8 Harvington Collection upon Brief 1695 400
Appendix 9 1608 Muster: occupational information for four
Gloucestershire parishes 401
Appendix 10 Bidford occupational structure in baptisms 1813 to 1840
and in the 1831 and 1841 censuses 402