Documents

Summary

The General Account of the number of persons in each house on January 1st, 1782.

The text of the 1782 Listing is printed in extenso with editorial additions. Its index has been incorporated into the Index for the whole volume. The headings for date, hamlet, and age in “Y. M. D.” have not been repeated from each page of the original. The general format on each page has been preserved, though pages have been run together here whilst in the document each household began a new side.

Capitalisation has been preserved, as have the clearer examples of punctuation. Abbreviations have not been expanded, though letters above the line, indicating a contraction, have been brought down to line level.

Each individual named in the original listing has been given a reference number in bold type in the left-hand margin. The same number occurs in bold type where relevant in editorial matter elsewhere in this volume. Those for Cardington hamlet have no prefix letter, while Fenlake, Harrowden, Cotton End and Pastors are distinguished by F, H, C and P respectively. The original listing numbering by tenement households allows people to be numbered within their housefulls. Those listed in one household but presumed to be resident elsewhere in the parish have in effect two reference numbers; the same applies to children listed in the parental household and also as heading another household elsewhere in the parish. No numbers have been given to unlisted individuals added editorially from associated documents.

All other editorial additions, comments and clarifications to the individual entries are in italics. These are normally placed after the 1782 entry, and follow the common form abbreviations. They include information from the following sources, which are discussed in the general introduction:

Parish Registers, 1700-1850: source to 1812 is CRO transcript by F. G. Emmison.

Wills and Administrations, 1762-1825: cross-referencing to published document.

Overseers’ Accounts, 1781-2: cross-referencing to published document.

Settlement Papers, 1748-73.

Land Tax of 1783.

Parliamentary Election for County of Bedford 1783: Poll Book. Inscriptions on tombstones and memorials in Cardington churchyard.

Miscellaneous documents naming listed individuals, including holders of parish offices.