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An account of the number of INHABITANTS of the Town of NOTTINGHAM, with the number of Houses and Families, distinguishing each street alphabetically, taken from Monday 20th, to Saturday the 25th of September inclusive, 1779.

The method adopted, and the rules that were observed in taking the following account :
No militia man or soldier was reckoned, but their families were numbered if they were housekeepers in the town.
If any part of a family were absent upon a visit or a journey they were counted, as were all children who boarded at schools, &c. in the town ; therefore no persons upon a visit here, nor children belonging to the town if boarded out of it for education, &c. were taken
Distinctions were made of houses, families and inhabitants in each parish, that a succinct account of each might be given.
The hospitals were not numbered amongst the houses, but the people were taken as inhabitants.

 

Houses

Families

Souls

Angel Row
St. Ann Street
St. Ann's and Copies

Back Lane and
Penny Foot Row
Barker Gate
Bearward Lane
Beast Market Hill
Beck Lane
Beck Lane Hospitals
Beck Barn or Pottery
Bedlam Court
Bellar Gate
Boot Lane, from Parliament Street, to the Joiner's-Arms, exclusive of Kayes's Buildings
Bottle Lane
Bowling Alley Hill
Bridge End, see
Hollow Stone
Bridlesmith-gate and Rose Yard
Broad Lane to St. John's
Broad Marsh and
Darker's-Court
Byard Lane and
Chappel's-Court
Bilby's Hospital
Butt Dyke, see
Toller's Hill
Blowbladder Street, see
Mount Hall Gate

Carter Lane
Castle Gate
Chandler's Lane
Chappel Bar to Nix's Yard
Cappel's Court, see
Bryard Lane
Cheapside
Chesterfield Lane
Coalpit Lane
Cow Lane
Cuskstool Row
Cabbage Court
Charlotte Street and three Salmon's Yard
Collin's Hospital

Drury Hill
Darker's Court, see
Broad Marsh
Engine House and Neighbourhood
Finkhill Street and
Walnuttree Lane
Fisher Gate
Fletcher Gate
Friar Lane or Mont Hall Lane
Flint's Court, see
Garner's Hill
Gilliflower Hill and
Rock Holes
Goose Cate &
Hockley to Parivicini's R.
Greyfriar's Gate
Griddlesmith Gate
Greyhound Yard
Glass House Lane to Charlotte Street
Garner's Hill and
Flint's Court

High Pavement
High Street
Hockley, see
Goose Gate
Hound's Gate
Hollow Stone,
Bridge End and Malin Hill

St. John's and Keywoth's Houses
St James's Lane
Jew Lane, see
Spaniel Row
Johnson's Court

Kayes's Buildings in Boot Lane

Long Row, From Nix's Yard to Cow Lane, including all the Yards, except Greyhound-Yard
Low Pavement
Leen Side

Malin Hill, see
Hollow Stone
St. Mary's Church Side
St. Mary's Gate
Marsden's Court
Middle Pavement
Mount Hall Gate or
Blowbladder Street
Mount Lane or Middle Hill
Milstone Lane to Beck Barn
St. Mary's Workhouse
Middle Marsh

Narrow Marsh and Long Stairs, including all the Yards, &c.
New Change and Shoe Booths
St. Nicholas's Workhouse

Parcivicini's Row, Owen' Court, &c.
Peck Lane
Pennyfoot Row, see
Back Lane
Pepper Street
St. Peter's Workhouse
St. Peter's Church Side
St. Peter's Gate and Church Yard
Pilcher Gate
Parliment Street and Back Lane
Plumptre's Hospital

Queen Street
Quaker Lane, see
Spaniel Row

Rosemary Lane
Rockholes, &c. beyond Glass House Lane
Rockholes, Gilliflower Hill, see
Gilliflower Hill

Spring Gardens, including all the New Hoses South of St. Ann Street, and East of Glass House Lane
Shambles, see
Smithy Row
Sheep Lane
Short Hill
Smithy Row and
Shambles
Spaniel Row
Stephen's Court, see
Leen Side
Stoney Street
Stoney Street Hospital
Swine Green

Timber Hill
Trent Bridge
Turn Calf Alley
Toller's Hill and
But Dyke
Tabernacle Alley, including all the Houses at the Back of Boot Lane, from Parliment Street to Charlotte Street.

Walnut-tree Lane, see
Finkhill Street
Warser Gate
Wheeler Gate
Woolpack Lane
White Rents in Houndsgate

Total Number
Brewhouse Yard, an Extra Parochial Place

24
30
4

32
79
73
14
13
-
13
19
46

110
16
6

81
22
68
13
-



46
87
15
29

10
18
20
27
12
7
40
-

13

9
26
60
30
6

13
65
54
43
30
45
7

39
10

81
50

15
59

14

14


140
18
44


24
42
10
15
19
13
44
-
20

197
13
-

27
6

10
-
14
37
23
275
-

8


12
19



68

17
17
18
10

29
-
17

21
9
15
95

61

45
38
54

3191
-

3191

23
35
5

35
94
83
14
13
-
19
20
50

128
19
6

86
26
85
13
-



50
97
23
31

10
19
21
28
12
9
41
-

14

13
30
67
30
6

15
68
60
43
36
59
9

39
10

90
54

22
64

19

18


154
19
56


25
41
11
25
20
14
44
-
21

226
13
-

31
6

11
-
14
38
28
299
-

10


13
19



86

20
18
17
13

30
-
21

23
14
18
97

61

48
40
61
-
3556
-

3556

139
149
24

197
418
424
88
69
13
87
89
231

624
93
34

415
143
375
69
18



230
447
90
145

49
83
112
129
94
47
224
42

74

59
136
291
145
32

69
304
293
204
162
299
44

207
75

407
258

85
326

84

95


824
99
265


109
178
61
67
98
64
205
108
94

1035
64
57

172
23

49
42
62
169
120
1504
14

44


63
73



365

86
79
81
59

156
16
108

149
70
97
519

284

198
107
332
65
17584
127

17711

A division of the number of Houses, Families and Inhabitants in each Parish :

 

Houses

Families

Souls

St. Mary's Parish
St. Peter's
St. Nicholas's
Brewhouse Yard

Total

2314
446
431
-

3191

2584
497
475
-

3556

12657
2445
2502
127

17711

An account of the Burials for seven Years, from 1772 to 1778, inclusive :

St. Mary's
St. Peter's
St Nicholas's
Castlegate Meeting
Baptist ditto
Quakers ditto

Total

 

 

2315
608
790
74
98
18

3903

Houses that are now uninhabited in this town

St. Mary's Parish
St. Peter's ditto
St Nicholas's ditto

Total

 

 

57
10
9

76

The inhabited houses contain as near as possible; five and a half upon the average to each house.
If we divide the number of inhabitants by the annual average number of burials, we shall discover that it will require about thirty-one years and ten months to bury a number equal to that of the whole town, consequently nearly one in thirty-two of the inhabitants die annually. We shall also find that by ascertaining the number of people and burials, the comparative healthfulness of places may be determined ; making proper allowance for those who die in their infancy, and for the extraordinary increase or decrease of the people by acquisition or emigration. This comparison has not been made in many places in England, because the mistaken apprehension of new taxes, and other reasons, make people jealous of being enumerated:- It his however with pleasure we declare, that we found very few such groundless fears to prevail here ; but on the contrary, the generality of the people gave their numbers with great good nature and chearfulness.
It appears that in a very healthful, called Holy Cross, adjoining to Shrewsbury, one in thirty-three die annually, through Shrewsbury and Northampton one in twenty-seven, and in London one in twenty-one ; but with respect to London, the computation has been made only from the number of houses. In many places of Europe, regular accounts are annually taken, from which we find at Vienna one in twenty die every year ; at Berlin one in twenty-six, but this number would be smaller only for an extra encrease of people of late years ; at a county parish in Bradenburgh one in forty-five ; and the same in those healthful villages of the Pais de Vaud near Geneva ; but this high number may proceed from the emigration of the natives, of which Dr. Tissot, in the Introduction to his Advice to the People, very much complains . We must not conclude that because this number is twice that of London, therefore the chance of life to adults is two to one against London ; it is only so in the new born infant ; hence the necessity in these calculations of always taking into consideration the number of infants that are annually buried - At Vienna half the number of inhabitants die before they are two years of age ; at Berlin two and three quarters, at London three, at Northampton six, at Holy Cross twenty-seven, and in the Pais de Vaud forty-one.

From a comparison of the foregoing premises, it is with peculiar satisfaction that we conclude that Nottingham to be a very healthy situation, for we nearly come up to the standard of Holy Cross, and should certainly exceed it, if it was not for the numbers that die here in their infancy ; where poor people are forced to neglect their offspring to procure a subsistence, it is no wonder if half of those who are born die young. Dr. Deering in his Antiquties of Nottingham, page seventy-eight, gives us 2331 for the burials in seven years ; of which 1072 were infants. Near half therefore die in their infancy, which cannot be the case in Holy Cross, where half that are born live to the age of twenty-seven. - The doctor in the year 1739. enumerated the inhabitants of this place, and making a proportionate allowance for some omissions and deficiencies in his account, it appears that there were at that time about 10720 souls in this town ; taking also his annual average of burials for seven years, by which if we divide the number of inhabitants, it will apear that nearly thirty-two years was then the requisite time to bury the whole number of the people. This similarity at forty years distance with the present statement, most certainly removes the suspicion of inaccuracy in both accounts. We are aware that the judicious may possibly observe that the very great additional number of people since Dr. Deering's account, will of course operate here as it did at Berlin, and make this place also appear more healthful than it really is, and as such would certainly be the case, if during the time that we have given the state of the burials, there had not been a very unusual drain of the inhabitants into the army and militia, which we conceive fully counter-balances the increases.

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