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Coates, Cambridgeshire: A One-Place Study

 

1851 Census - Occupations

One of the reasons for starting this website was to see what Coates was like when my Great Grandfather worked there.  He was not the only wheelwright but, with the importance of farming and of the horse and cart for travel, there would have been plenty of work, I expect.

There was a significantly greater number of occupations listed on the 1851 census than in 1841 and they are shown below.
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Farming has always been important in and around Coates. The table below tells us there were 982 acres of land being used for farm purposes (arable & agricultural). There were also other people whose first occupation was not as a farmer who will have been working on the land.  The rightmost column is the age of the individual in question.

John

Beaton

Farmer Of 20 Acres Of Land Tilled By Himself & Family

40

James

Blunt

Farmer Of 108 Acres Employing 4 Labourer

42

William

Boyce

Farmer Of 2 Acres Land And Landed Proprieter

68

Thomas

Gale

Farmer Of 20 Acres Land Worked By Himself & Sons

60

James P

Halford

Farmer Of 246 Acres Of Land 8 Labourers

26

Anes

Hughes

Farmer

74

Thomas

Hughes

Farmer Of 220 Acres Employing 4 Men And 1 Boy

46

Nathan

Hunt

Farmer Of 113 Acres Employing 2 Labourers

30

Stephen

Hurry

Farmer Of 9 Acres Of Land

40

Thomas

Jarman

Farmer Of 5 Acres Of Land Tilled By Himself

30

William

Kisby

Farmer Of 37 Acres (Employing 1 Labourer)

36

John

Laud

Farmer Of 20 Acres Of Land 1 Labourer

78

Nathan

Lindsey

Farmer Of 17 Acres Tilled By Himself

26

William

Lindsey

Farmer Of 28 Acres Of Land No Labourers

33

Jabez

Read

Farmer Of 32 Acres No Labourer

56

Daniel

Ruff

Farmer Of 20 Acres (Employing 1 Labourer)

36

James

Sharman

Farmer Of 3 Acres Of Land

32

William

Sharman

Farmer Of 4 Acres Of Land

57

George

Warwick

Farmer Of 78 Acres Employing 2 Men

37


Below my findings about Agricultural Labourers and Scholars.
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