This is repeated on various Studies so that they remain a stand alone document
The One Place Studies started with the people of Whiteparish, in Wiltshire, England. I have a hunch that that parish may have links to my family tree. I find family and social migration interesting and this will help explore that. At the time of writing, the earliest date is 1470 when the population was less than 200, and the community fairly static. Marriages tended to be within the community and family associations can be assumed.
Read more at Whiteparish One Place Study or go to a list of people in the database The people of Whiteparish
I also have a Millbrook Parish One Place Study. It starts with plotting the enumerators route of the 1841 census of Millbrook, Hampshire. Millbrook is now absorbed into Southampton.
Turnpikes became an interesting challenge. They are often refered to in the Enumerators Notes, especially as part of the boundary of the District. Hence investigating Turnpikes and creating ESRI Story Maps which included Turnpike data and mapping
There are now three core elements to my One Place Studies. Timeline, history, maps, and extensive text, in the first element. The second, is about data. Initially this was done as enbeded Excel tables and Charts, but that is no longer a viable option, so the individuals and families are imported into TNG. The third is the geolocated element, held in ESRI Story Maps.
The first and main being my Genealogy Wedsite, with links therein to the other two.
Read the main core at my Genealogy website Millbrook Parish One Place Study
This element has a detailed Timeline of events which happeded to the parish, at a world, national, and county level, as well as nearby events. Also, events within the parish and significant indifiduals or families.
The element is also the repository for anything I find out about the parish, from before when it was created as a manor through to the current day.
Whether that is an ancient map, a newspaper story, a shipping disaster, industrial history, particular houses, people and families. Anything I can find out about the parish, and record.
The second core is this one, which contains data and data analysis within the wrapper of this TNG software. Go to a list of people in the database The people of Millbrook
The third core is the data with a geolocated element. This data is best represented within a special element, hence mapped in ESRI Story Maps. This is primarily from the Tithe Apportionment, and includes Land Utilisation.
Link to ESRI StoryMaps Millbrook One Place Study
By studying one census location from 1841 to 1911, I hope to be able to shed some light on he social change as the population starts to migrate again and the area becomes urbanised and absorbed into Southampton.
However, before the first was complete, others popped along, that needed a similar treatment.
This is a collation of them as they currently stand.
Millbrook Parish one place study
One Place Study' of Whiteparish
The are lots of complications regarding the concept of place. Millbrook, Hampshire for instance is a Manor, a village, a parish, and a suburb of Southampton. A study can not reasonably be expected to be all things to all people, all at the same time. Hence we need to set a Scope whilst recognising the boundaries move.
For our purposes, as a generalisation, the Tithe Apportionment Maps represent a good starting point. It is a well defined area with clear boundaries. It probably includes the Ecclesiastical Parish named together with any relevant Extra Parochial area. It is a stable well defined foundation in a point in time. It is not confused with Civil Parishes as they were not created until later.
Tithe Apportionment
Census
Post Office Directories
Kelly's directories etc.
Voting records
Births, Marriages, and Deaths (Burials)
Of potential interest is the Process or Mechanics of my On Place Studies, but that does not need repeating often, so has it's own page.
Link to The Process adopted for my One Place Study
The 1841 Census was not the first of its type in the UK but it is the first to have the majority of the individual records intact.
Compared to later Census years, the data collected was relativly sparce
The headers for the 1841 Census.
| At the top of the page | ||
| City or Borough of _____ | ||
| Parish or Township of _____ | ||
| Then column headers of | ||
| Place | ||
| Houses | Uninhabited or Building | |
| Houses | Inhabited | |
| Names, of each Person who abode therein the proceeding Night | ||
| Age and Sex | Male | |
| Age and Sex | Female | |
| Profession, Trade, Employment, or of Independent Means | ||
| Where Born | Whether Born in same County | |
| Where Born | Where Born, Whether Born in Scotland Ireland or Foreign Parts | |
| Between Houses and names | One / for household and // for House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) | (extra column in spreadsheet Family split (// = 2)) |
| At the bottom of the page; | Page number | |
| Totals for | Houses | Uninhabited or Building |
| Houses | Inhabited | |
| Age and Sex, Male | Total | |
| Age and Sex, Male | With Occupation | |
| Age and Sex, Male | Without Occupation | |
| Age and Sex, Male, sometimes | Adult | |
| Age and Sex, Male, sometimes | Child | |
| Age and Sex, Female | Total | |
| Age and Sex, Female | With Occupation | |
| Age and Sex, Female | Without Occupation | |
| Age and Sex, Female, sometimes | Adult | |
| Age and Sex, Female, sometimes | Child | |
| Not included | ||
| Head of Family | ||
| Relationship to Head of Family |
The Head of Family is inferred as the first person after a / or a // .
Relationship is considered within the following people before another / , generally with the same surname. If the first entry following the head is of a similar age and of the opposite sex, they may be considered, generally a wife. Others in the same household group, with the same surname, with biologically appropriate age differences, could be considered Son or Daughter, based on Male or Female.
All that part of the Parish of Millbrook which lies to the South and West of Wimpson Lane from the Canal Bridge Millbrook Pond and the Stream therefrom to the Sea
All that part of the Parish of Millbrook east of the above Wimpson Lane xxxx South of Brown Hill by the Turnpike, to May Bush and thence through Mousehole and the New Road to the Shaw as per plan
Enumerator: Charles Harrison
All that part of the Parish of Millbrook which is West and South of Foundry Lane and Romsey Turnpike to May Bush Corner bound at the West by New Road and Mousehole Lane as per plan
All that part of the Parish of Millbrook which lies West and South of the Turnpike from 4 Posts shore to New Road round Parsons Buildings bound on the East by Foundry Lane as per plan
Enumerator: James Gibney
All that part of the Parish of Millbrook which lies West and South of the Parish Bounds Cockerwood Lane Bellermount Church Road by Turnpike and Nelson Lane to shore as per plan
All that part of the Parish of Millbrook which lies West and South of Cockerwood Lane from Bellmore by London Road to Red Lodge Pond and Winston Road to the Turnpike and Church Road on the South as per plan
Enumerator: William Groves
All that part of the Parish of Millbrook which lies South and West of Brown Hill East of Turnpike xx Aldermoor Pxx Cxx by Red Lodge Farm to Winton Road to Shirley Mills as per plan
Below is the structural and demographic analysis of the 1841 Census, including household composition and occupational patterns, based on explicit census relationships (Type A), cleaned household structures (Type A1), and later inferred family groupings (Type B).
The data is held, shaped, and analyised within an extensive Excel spreadsheet, which is part of a suite of Genealogy spreadsheets.
In this One Place Study, Type A data consists of census records that have been fully transcribed and verified directly against the original 1841 census images. Only records meeting this standard are included in the analysis below.
Type A analysis is deliberately conservative. It uses only information that is explicitly recorded or clearly implied by the census itself, including household boundaries and enumerator annotations. No inferred family reconstruction is applied at this stage.
At present, Type A coverage applies to Enumeration District 2 of Millbrook parish. Other enumeration districts are present in the census returns but have not yet been fully image-verified and are therefore excluded from structural analysis at this stage.
As additional districts are transcribed and verified, they will be incorporated automatically into this analysis without any change to the methodology.
These figures represent a partial but reliable view of the parish at the time of the 1841 census. They describe only those households that have been fully verified against the census images and should not be read as totals for the entire parish.
The 1841 census occasionally records more than one household occupying the same
building. This is indicated by the enumerator's use of a double slash (//)
between groups of names.
In this study, dwellings marked in this way are treated as Houses in Multiple Occupation. HMOs are identified only where the census explicitly indicates them; no additional assumptions are made.
The census also records counts of buildings that were uninhabited or under construction at the time of enumeration. These are often noted as tallies or numbers on the same lines as inhabited households and do not describe the household listed on that line.
These figures are treated strictly as enumerator tallies and provide context for settlement development and expansion within the enumeration district.
The following figures summarise the census image-verified (Type A) population currently covered by this study. Percentages are calculated relative to the total Type A population only.
The population overview presented here uses the study's general Adult classification rather than the census-specific Census Adult category. This reflects a broader demographic concept of adulthood, aligned with legal and social definitions applicable at the time of interpretation. In nineteenth-century censuses, individuals aged 13 and over were commonly treated as adults for enumeration and labour purposes; however, legal definitions of adulthood placed the age of majority at 21 until the end of 1969, and at 18 thereafter. The population summary therefore uses Adult as a general demographic category, while analyses of work and occupation elsewhere in this study explicitly follow census practice by using the Census Adult classification.
| Metric | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| Total Type A population | 192 | 100% |
| Adults | 82 | 42.7% |
| Adult males | 36 | 18.80% |
| Adult females | 46 | 24% |
| Children | 103 | 53.6% |
| Child males | 53 | 27.6% |
| Child females | 50 | 26% |
| Infants | 7 | 3.6% |
| Infant males | 6 | 3.1% |
| Infant females | 1 | 0.5% |
| Male (all ages) | 95 | 49.5% |
| Female (all ages) | 97 | 50.5% |
| Born in Hampshire | 170 | 88.5% |
| Born outside Hampshire | 22 | 11.5% |
| Born in England | 170 | 88.5% |
| Born outside England or unknown | 22 | 11.5% |
The age structure shown below is derived from census image-verified (Type A) census records only. Individuals are grouped using the census classifications of adults, children, and infants, with additional analytical groupings applied where appropriate.
Although no children were of compulsory school age in 1841 as there was no such legislation, a substantial proportion of the population fell within the typical schooling age range (5-14). Education at this period was voluntary and varied widely, relying on church, charity, and private provision rather than state compulsion.
| Metric | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| Total Type A population | 192 | 100% |
| Adults | 82 | 42.7% |
| Children | 103 | 53.6% |
| Infants | 7 | 3.6% |
| Compulsory school-age population | 0 | 0% |
| Children aged 5-14 | 53 | 27.6% |
| Working-age population | 56 | 29.2% |
| Elderly (non-working-age adults) | 26 | 13.5% |
| Adults aged 15-24 | 3 | 1.6% |
| Adults aged 25-34 | 24 | 12.5% |
| Adults aged 35-44 | 30 | 15.6% |
| Adults aged 45-54 | 11 | 5.7% |
| Adults aged 55-64 | 9 | 4.7% |
| Adults aged 65+ | 5 | 2.6% |
The occupations shown on the Census are normalised and grouped into Work categories, which are shown for individuals classified as adults by the census, reflecting contemporary labour practice rather than legal definitions of adulthood.
Census classifications of adults and children reflect contemporary enumeration practice and should not be confused with legal adulthood or age-of-consent thresholds, which varied by period and by sex. These legal distinctions are recorded separately and are not used to alter census household structure.
Not all Census Adults have a stated occupation.
| Metric | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| Census adults with stated occupation | 57 | 47.5% |
| Census adults with stated occupation - Female | 14 | 11.7% |
| Census adults with stated occupation - Male | 43 | 35.8% |
| Agricultural Work | 17 | 14.2% |
| Agricultural Work - Male | 17 | 14.2% |
| Service Work | 14 | 11.7% |
| Service Work - Male | 2 | 1.7% |
| Service Work - Female | 12 | 10% |
| Industrial Work | 11 | 9.2% |
| Industrial Work - Male | 11 | 9.2% |
| Tradesman | 8 | 6.7% |
| Tradesman - Male | 8 | 6.7% |
| Independent Means | 2 | 1.7% |
| Independent Means - Female | 2 | 1.7% |
| Construction Work | 1 | 0.8% |
| Construction Work - Male | 1 | 0.8% |
| Merchant | 1 | 0.8% |
| Merchant - Male | 1 | 0.8% |
| Police Law enforcement | 1 | 0.8% |
| Police Law enforcement - Male | 1 | 0.8% |
| Postal Work | 1 | 0.8% |
| Postal Work - Male | 1 | 0.8% |
| Professional | 1 | 0.8% |
| Professional - Male | 1 | 0.8% |
Because this analysis is restricted to Type A (image-verified) data, the results are intentionally cautious. Patterns identified here are reliable within the covered area but cannot yet be generalised to the whole parish.
Areas not yet included in Type A remain analytically silent rather than being estimated or inferred. This avoids introducing bias and ensures that later comparative work remains meaningful.
Two forms of expansion are planned:
By keeping these stages distinct, the study preserves a clear boundary between what the census records and what is inferred from it.
``[Planned]