East & West Molesey
A Dictionary of Local History
Rowland G. M. Baker, 1972
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Before the Census Act of 1800 there was no comprehensive
counting of the population. One way of assessing approximately the number of
people in a place is to estimate it from the taxation returns. In 1332 there
were forty-one taxpayers in the village of Molesey, suggesting a total
population of between two and three hundred people. The returns for the Hearth
Tax in 1664 show that there were then forty-one houses in East Molesey with a
relative population of about two hundred, and thirty-seven in West Molesey,
with say one hundred and eighty people.
The decennial census figures since 1801 are as follows:-
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Date
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East Molesey
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West Molesey
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1801
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462
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320
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1811
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509
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343
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1821
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526
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430
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1831
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546
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441
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1841
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690
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469
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1851
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765
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480
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1861
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1568
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459
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1871
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2409
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563
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1881
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3289
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661
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1891
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4666
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730
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1901
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5119
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915
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1911
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5313
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1179
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1921
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5988
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1500
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1931
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6305
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2159
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1944
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6460*
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5393*
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1951
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6815
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7525
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1961
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7009
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8716
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1971
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6680
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10899
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* Estimated from food ration books issued
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