Appleby History > Miscellany > 1911 Occupations
Occupations of Appleby People
Summarised from the 1911 Census
Coding systems have been around for much longer than modern computer systems. On the 1911 census, people were asked to state their occupations, and census clerks then added official occupation codes to the documents. Chris Bee has summarised these from the Appleby census, showing that out of the population of 675, 379 were given an occupation code, which included school children and retired people, but not pre-school children or wives.
The list is here to download as a pdf file:
There is a copy of the full list of occupation codes on the 1911 census web site www.1911census.co.uk
See also:
The UK National Censuses 1841-1911, The Appleby census records
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In Focus 18: Wealth and Poverty in Appleby in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries - Richard Dunmore
In Focus 23: Making a Living, Employment in Early Victorian Appleby - Richard Dunmore
Appleby Families: Villagers in Early Modern Times - Alan Roberts