Burley History - The Census
Every ten years since 1801, a census of the population has been taken
in every part of England. Since 1841, the records allow us to learn
details of every household and its members, their gender, age, marital
status, occupation and birth place.
In Burley Archives, kept in our public library, we have copied, from the Public Record Office in Kew Gardens, details of all households in the village onto a card index, covering the years 1841 to 1901. (There is a 100 year ban on Census details of this kind.)
In Burley Archives, kept in our public library, we have copied, from the Public Record Office in Kew Gardens, details of all households in the village onto a card index, covering the years 1841 to 1901. (There is a 100 year ban on Census details of this kind.)
The Vicar of Burley
On the following page we show details of one household in Burley,
that of the Vicar, the Revd Charles Ingham Black, in each of the census
years from 1861 to 1891. (Black came as Curate in 1855 and stayed until he died in 1896.)
The photograph shows the Revd Charles Ingham Black as he was in the 1880s
For further information about the Census of Victorian Burley see the following publication of Burley Local History Group: M. & D. Warwick, “Burley–in–Wharfedale in the Nineteenth Century: A Study of Social Stratification and Social Mobility” in The Journal of Local Population Studies, 1995, Vol. 54
Other information about the village can be gained by visiting Burley
Archives in the Library, Grange Road, on Tuesday and Friday afternoons
between 2:30pm and 4:30pm