Royston, Herts. 193 13 975 " Cambs. 77 3 356 Bassingbourn 25 0 120 Kneesworth 3 0 9 Therfield 4 1 24 --- -- ---- Totals 302 17 1484
There were no inhabitants in Melbourn parish, Royston, at the above Census of ninety years ago, and it will be seen that all the inhabitants within 153 were in Royston parish proper.
1811.--The Census of this period showed very little difference from the figures for 1801, and of that of 1821, I have only the particulars for the two parishes of Royston, Herts., and Cambs., which gave 1,479 persons against 1,331 for these two parishes in 1801.
The most interesting and complete Census of the town was that of the year
Houses Houses 1831. Houses. empty. building. Persons.
Royston, Herts. 244 3 4 1272 " Cambs. 102 4 0 485 Bassingbourn 35 1 0 157 Kneesworth 6 1 0 49 Therfield 9 0 0 44 Melbourn 1 0 0 1 --- - - ---- Totals 397 9 4 2008
The following are the Census returns for the township of Royston for 1881 and 1891.
1881. 1891. Increase. Decrease. Royston, Herts. 1272 1262 -- 10 " Cambs. 440 439 -- 1 Bassingbourn part 445 472 27 -- The Workhouse 145 101 -- 44 Kneesworth part 461 682 221 -- Melbourn part 190 213 23 -- Therfield part 183 150 -- 33 ---- ---- --- -- Totals 3136 3319 183 --
The interest of the foregoing figures lies in the fact that there was during the first thirty years of the century a great increase in the Hertfordshire part of the town, and scarcely any increase in the Cambridgeshire part, whereas the tendency has now been reversed in so remarkable a manner that against only 9 persons in Kneesworth parish, Royston, in 1801, there are now 682.
Allotments, 114 Andrews, Hy., astronomer, 34, 107 Anstey Fair, Rural Sports at, 100 Arrington, coaching at, 144 Arrington-hill, 154
"Bacca" and snuff for paupers, 41 Banks stopping payment, 56 Barkway, Day School at, 121 --Milestones near, 15, 16 --Terrible fire at, 178, 179 --Volunteers of, 68 --Whipping post at, 83 --Workhouse at, 40 Barley, "Fox and Hounds" at, 18 Bassingbourn, 24, 65 --Incendiary fires at, 170 --Strange narrative of horse-stealing at, 89 --Volunteers of, 71 Beacon fires, 66, 67 Beadle, dignity and duties of, 53, 54 --The, and Bastardy laws, 163 --Emoluments of, 55 Beldam, Joseph, senr., 28 --Valentine, 27 Biggleswade, dreadful fire at, 179 Bishop Stortford, Volunteers of, 71 Blucher at Cambridge, 72 Body-snatching, horrors of, 81 Bowling Greens, 24, 69 Bow Street Runner, 170 Buntingford, Bridewell at, 93 --Mails from, 115 --Pauper Weddings at, 50 --Queen & Prince Albert at, 187 --Roads, 12 Burying at four cross-roads, 86 Butler, Henry, woolstapler, 105 --John, 27 --W. Warren, and his rhymes, 132-135 Butcher, the, and the Baronet, 136