Censuses
Census years were, 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891, 1901, 1911 & 1921. Janet Roworth and Dawn Bowskill have transcribed these and they will appear here for Belton, the estate village of Manthorpe cum Little Gonerby and the Township of Little Gonerby where relevant to Belton.
When shown as a table, use show entries in the census tables to vary the number of indivduals viewed, column sorting & the search box for names or occupation etc.
The only other record of Belton residents is the 1939 Register, listed after the census data.
Header image: 1851 census return for Belton House6 June 1841. 1st Earl Brownlow's London residence. Thirty-five persons recorded.
6 June 1841. Separate households are flagged by an entry under Place. The enumerator rarely stated an address, so unstated is used where there is a blank. Schedule numbers not yet in use. Four servants recorded in residence at Belton House.
30 March 1851. Belton House has 51 persons recorded! The enumerator recorded mainly schedule numbers rather than places. Includes one entry from the township of Little Gonerby.
7 April 1861. Belton has many place names. Alms House gives precise address. Eight servants only registered at Belton House.
2 April 1871. Belton has many place names, Manthorpe nearly all schedule numbers. Servants only in residence at Belton House.
3 April 1881. Lady Marion Alford & Lady Caroline Cust, Marion's sister-in-law, in residence with 14 servants. Caroline, unmarried daughter of John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow and Caroline Fludyer his second wife.
5th April 1891. Earl & Countess Brownlow in residence.
1 April 1901. Address of residence often imprecise, e.g. in village. Abbreviation for daughter varies. Six servants are managing the House in the absence of any of the Brownlow family.
2 April 1911. This is the raw data for Belton House, awaiting transcription. The Earl & Countess Brownlow are in residence along with 6 guests and 25 servants.
It required the details of everyone who was alive at midnight on the night of Sunday, 24th April 1921 as well as anyone not enumerated elsewhere who arrives and is received into the household or establishment on the morning of Monday, 25th April. Adelbert, 5th Baron Brownlow and his wife Maud are in residence, along with 4 visitors including his son Perry, and 16 servants.
The 1939 Register taken on 29 September 1939
Not strictly a census, but the 1939 Register provides a snapshot of the civilian population of England and Wales just after the outbreak of the Second World War. As the 1931 census for England and Wales was destroyed by fire during the Second World War and no census was taken in 1941, the Register provides the most complete survey of the population of England and Wales between 1921 and 1951. The table shows the occupants of Belton House. Those living on the wider estate await transcription.
Owing to privacy regulations, personal details of people in the Register who were born less than 100 years and a day ago and are still alive cannot be shown. However, the Register was updated only until 1991, after that time closed records are only opened on request. Closed entries 3 and 4 likely relate to Caroline and Edward Cust the children of Lord and Lady Brownlow.
