[From T.Quayle Agriculture of IoM, 1812]

APPENDIX H.

No. I.

Transcript of a paper in the handwriting of the late Right Rev.. Dr. Thomas Wilson, Bishop of Sodor and Man; containing an account of the number of souls in the Isle of Man, in the year 1726.

This Table was by some accident left incomplete ; the population of the parish of Marown not being inserted.

Supposing the ratio of increase in the parish of Marown from 1726 to 1757, to have borne its proportion to the rest of the island, the number of inhabitants at the former period in that parish would have been about 499, which would bring up the whole number to 14526.

No. II.

An Account of the number of inhabitants of the Isle of Man, as returned by the several clergy, in answer to the Bishop of Man's 12th Article of Visitation. 1757.

No. III.

An Account of the number of inhabitants of the several parishes, as returned by the Rectors or Vicars, in pursuance of a requisition of his Excellency General Edward Smith, Governor of the Isle of Man, dated 29 January, 1784.

N. B. This Table is extracted from the Isle of Man Commissioners' Report. In the first column the incumbents of Andreas and Arbory appear to have reckoned the two sexes separately; the other clergymen reckon husband and wife as one couple. Some slight errors in casting up the several columns have also been committed; not materially affecting the result.

In the parish of Arbory, the number of adult single men is not distinguished in the original return from that of adult single women. The number of both is 174. As the number of females exceeds that of males in every instance but one, in which they are equal, 90 is inserted in this list as the number of females in Arbory parish, and 84 of males.

No. IV.

2d Jan. 1792.

State of the Population ; taken by the Clergy and Church-wardens, by Directions of the Bishop of the Diocese. Extracted from Agricultural Report, 1810.

No. V.

Table of Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials in each Church and Chapel of the Isle of Man, from 1800 to 1809, both inclusive ; divided into two periods of Five Years each.

No. VI.

Number of inhabited houses, taken in 1811.

In the town of Douglas the population is peculiarly dense. Even the smaller houses are often occupied by two or more families ; almost all contain residents in addition to the family. Each house may safely be reckoned to contain ten inhabitants.

The three other towns are also crowded, but in a less degree than Douglas. In the villages and dispersed houses in the country, it frequently happens, from the habitual early marriages of the peasantry, that two families reside under one roof. Taking with these, the three smaller towns, it is thought to each house cannot be assigned, on a general average, less than six inhabitants.