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Population
growth to 1738-1838: |
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Source:
"The Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent" John Ward, 1843 |
Population
Growth:
"The
rapid advance of the local manufacturers, and the consequent increase of the
population, reckoning from about the middle of the 18th Century,
have, perhaps, not been surpassed relatively, during the same period, in any
of the great trading and manufacturing towns and districts of England.
In
the Petition …presented to the House of Commons in 1762, the population of
the whole of the Potteries was computed at near seven thousand persons; which
we have reason to think was below the real number, for Burslem parish alone
contained near three thousand persons at that period, as may be collected from
an examination of the Parish Registers; and if we suppose the population of
the District generally to have merely doubled within the preceding twenty-five
years (which has been about the ratio of its ordinary increase of late) we may
venture to set down the number at four thousand a century ago.
The
impulse given to the Trade, after the completion of the Grand Trunk Canal, in
1777, produced a rapid advance of the population…. In the year 1785, the
late Mr. Josiah Wedgwood … estimated the population employed in, or
depending upon, this Manufacture, at from fifteen to twenty thousand persons.
We
will take the population within what is now the Borough of Stoke, at the
lowest amount mentioned by Mr. Wedgwood at that period and set it down at
fifteen thousand persons.
In
the year 1801, when the first Parliamentary Census was taken, the population
exhibited an increase more than three-fold within the preceding forty years;
and a further period of less than forty years has produced almost an equal
arithmetical progression, … examination of the parochial returns… sets the
total population of the Borough, at the present time (1838) at about
sixty-three thousand persons.
Table
- shewing the population of the Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent, and its
progressive increase during a period of 100 years:-
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Townships
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1738
|
1762
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1785
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1801
|
1811
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1821
|
1831
|
1838
|
|
Tunstall
|
200
|
300
|
500
|
800
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1,677
|
2,622
|
3,673
|
6,608
|
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Burslem,
Sneyd and Rushton Grange
|
1,800
|
2,800
|
4,800
|
6,486
|
8,478
|
9,815
|
12,572
|
14,486
|
|
Hanley
and Shelton
|
1,000
|
2,000
|
4,600
|
7,940
|
9,568
|
12,956
|
16,408
|
18,249
|
|
Penkhull
with Boothen, comprising Stoke
|
300
|
700
|
1,400
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2,680
|
3,851
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4,915
|
5,997
|
6,780
|
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Fenton
Vivian, and Fenton Culvert
|
200
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400
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700
|
1,800
|
2,506
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3,000
|
3,710
|
4,890
|
|
Longton
and Lane End
|
500
|
1,300
|
3,000
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4,000
|
4,930
|
7,100
|
9,608
|
11,987
|
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Population:
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4,000
|
7,500
|
15,000
|
23,626
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31,010
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40,408
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51,968
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63,000
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