Statistics
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Copyright Maxwell Adams 2004-2019 |
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Version November 2019
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Also
see the files for the 2001 and 2011 censuses for Lelant village on this website.
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"Lelant
parish" usually excludes St Ives and Towednack; it usually includes |
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the
village of Lelant and the surrounding rural area, unless the village only is
specified. |
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Medieval
times |
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1377 poll tax |
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Number
of Lelant people assessed for tax:
239 |
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Approximate
population of Lelant parish in 1377 as estimated by MacLean |
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from
the poll tax figures: 359. |
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[MacLEAN
John Poll tax accounts for Cornwall 1377 in the Journal of the |
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Royal
Institution of Cornwall 1872, 39.] The poll tax figures are for Lelant and |
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Uny
iuxta Lelant. I do not know what is meant by these two descriptions of
locations. |
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Black
Death |
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Lelant
parish lost forty percent of its population due to the Black Death |
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[BLEWETT
Richard R The Black Death in west and mid Cornwall 1349 in |
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Old
Cornwall 1973, 524-533]. |
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Sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries |
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For
Lelant the various taxes and musters of the Tudors and the protestation oath |
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returns
1642, hearth taxes of the 1660s, and Compton church census of 1676 |
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produce different
total population estimates. |
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Census population
figures for Lelant parish |
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Until
1934 the parish included a large rural area and was about 3500 acres. |
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YEARPEOPLEYEARPEOPLE |
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1801 |
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1083 |
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1871 |
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2178 |
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1811 |
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1180 |
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1881 |
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1720 |
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1821 |
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1271 |
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1891 |
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1439 |
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1831 |
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1602 |
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1901 |
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1391 |
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1841 |
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2012 |
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1911 |
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1599 |
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1851 |
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2290 |
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1921 |
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1667 |
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1861 |
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2319 |
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1931 |
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1733 |
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Up
to the middle of the century about one third of the parish population lived
in |
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Lelant
village; by 1891 this had risen to 44 percent. The exodus had been |
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mainly from the rural areas. |
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In
1801 there were 199 inhabited houses and 215 families; in 1811 there
were |
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209
inhabited houses and 233 families (Magna Britannia volume 3, published 1814). |
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1831
census |
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Details
from a note written in the baptism register 1813-1846 of St Uny's church |
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(CRO
P 120/1/3) |
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Inhabited
houses |
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279 |
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Families |
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311 |
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Houses
uninhabited |
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3 |
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Families
employed in: |
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Agriculture |
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88 |
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Trade,
manufacture, etc |
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42 |
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All
other families |
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181 |
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Males |
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811 |
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Females |
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791 |
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Total
in 1831 |
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1602 |
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Male
upward of twenty years |
413 |
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Agriculture: |
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Occupiers
in 1st class |
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24 |
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Occupiers
2nd class |
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38 |
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Labourers
in agriculture |
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68 |
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Manufacturers: |
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Retail
trade and handicraft |
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44 |
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Wholesale and capitalists,
clergy, office |
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clerks,professional and other educated |
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men |
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4 |
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Labourers,
not agricultural |
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224 |
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All
other males of twenty years |
3 |
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Upwards
of twenty years |
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8 |
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Under
twenty years, all female servants |
47 |
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Families
at various censuses |
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No of families |
Family
size |
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(population/number of
families) |
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1841 |
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372 |
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5.4 |
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1901 |
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363 |
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3.8 |
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1911 |
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410 |
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3.9 |
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1921 |
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451 |
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3.7 |
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1931 |
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489 |
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3.5 |
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Census
1965 for Lelant village (not the parish) |
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Lelant
Womens Institute made an informal census in 1965. This was of the village. |
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The
Lelant population surveyed totalled 547 of whom 86 percent were adults |
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and
14 percent school pupils and and college students. In 1965 adults were people
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one. 8 percent of the total were born in Lelant. Three-fifths of workers
worked |
outside
Lelant, two-fifths in Lelant. 14 percent of the total were retired people. |
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Households
were acquiring the goods of modern living. Nearly a third of those
surveyed
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had
a car and just over a half had a washing machine. However, nearly one-tenth |
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of households had only
an outdoor lavatory. |
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Today
no one in Lelant has only an outdoor lavatory and probably every household |
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has
a washing machine. Central heating and double-glazing are now commonplace. |
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Population
of Lelant village (not the parish) |
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1991-2000 |
959 |
(mean average) |
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The
electoral register 3Y for Lelant, February 2000-February 2001, had |
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761
electors. This excluded people under eighteen. |
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1851 religion census, Lelant
village |
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This
was a return made by the churches themselves and of limited accuracy. |
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The
figures for the three Christian places in Lelant village were: |
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St
Uny's Church |
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Morning |
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100 attenders, 80 Sunday
scholars |
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Afternoon |
60 attenders, 60 Sunday
scholars |
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No
evening service |
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Wesleyan
Methodist Chapel |
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Morning |
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53 attenders, 80 Sunday
scholars |
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Evening |
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200 attenders |
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No
afternoon service |
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Primitive
Methodist Chapel |
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Evening |
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140 attenders |
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No
morning or afternoon services |
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This
gives a total of 553 adult attendances and 220 Sunday School attendances. |
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The
figure of 773 represents round about the entire village population. Even |
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if there were a surfeit of piety in Lelant,
this is a highly unlikely proportion |
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and
there must be many duplicate attendances and some generous counting. |
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Only
one figure (53 adults at morning service at the Wesleyan chapel) looks |
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precisely expressed. |
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St Uny's Church |
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In
the early years of the nineteenth century, when Anglicanism was still at |
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a
low ebb, there were about a dozen communicants of St Uny's church. |
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The
numbers increased as the 1851 religious census shows. |
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1902
Christmas day |
65 communicants (St Uny's
church magazine) |
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1909
Easter Day |
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102 communicants (Cornish
Telegraph 15 April 1909) |
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There
were ninety nine people on the St Uny church electoral roll at March |
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2003. Of these
sixty five were Lelant residents. |
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Methodism |
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The
numbers of worshippers exceeded the number of formal members but numbers |
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fluctuated
very much, influenced in part by periodic revivals. Because membership |
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had
shrunk to a handful, the Primitive Methodist chapel closed in 1909 and
the |
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Wesleyan
one at Trendreath in 1987. |
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