Note 8 — DAVIES GILBERT, (continued 8)
Reading edition
This parish presents a very singular anomaly in respect to its Population Return. It would obviously occur that the 8 might possibly have stood for a 7 in the place of hundreds in the return for 1821; but that return at large, as printed by the House of Commons, has
Families employed in Agriculture. Families employed in Trades, &c. Other families. Males. Females. In all.
90 19 15 418 388 806
This gives however 6½ for each family.
If the rate of increase had continued for the last ten years, as it did in the former twenty, the final number would have been 983, with an increase at the rate of 81 per cent. in 30 years.