In the former Statistical Account, the population, in 1755, is stated, on the authority of Dr Webster, to have been 6491. The session registers show the , average number of births in the parish for that period to be 19 per annum. Assuming the record to exhibit the total amount of births, and there is reason to believe that it does so very nearly, this will give one birth to 34 inhabitants. Applying this principle to the earliest period to which the registers extend, the population appears to have been,
Taking the number of marriages at the, present day, and cormparing them with the present population, both of which elements are ascertained with the utmost exactness, and assuming the ratio to, have, been the Same at the periods specified above, the very same results are obtained. A similar calculation proves Dr Websters estimate of the population to have been very near the truth.
Population in 1792, 7079
1801, 6849
1811, 7636
1821, 8274
1831, 9552 males, 4658; female, 4894.
The population is believed to be still increasing, and the increase may be mainly attributed to the extension of trade and manufactures.
Population in villages in 1831, 5687
in the country, 3865
The record of births is so imperfectly
kept, that the yearly average cannot be ascertained. No record
or deaths kept.
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The yearly average of marriages for the last seven years is | 78.36 |
In 1831, there were of males | above 20 years of age, 2301 |
under 20 , 2357 |
In 183I, the number of capitalists, professional and other educated men, was | 86 |
Number of proprietors of land of the yearly value of L.50 and upwards, | 50 |
Of these 20 are residenters. | |
Number of families in 1831, 20 | 2055 |
employed in agriculture, 4 | 478 |
trade and manufactures, | 897 |
others, 6 | 680 |
Number of inhabited houses in 1831, | 1706 |
houses uninhabited | 81 |
building | 10 |
By the recent census, the population of this parish
amounts 10,234 -increase from 1831, 684. Of these, however, more
than 2000 including the village of St Ninians itself, are comprehended
in the Parliamentary burgh of Stirling, so that we cannot enter
into the same minute detail as at the former enumeration.