"We Will Remember Them"

The population of the region traced through the census when the first head count of 1801 enumerated over forty three thousand people, a figure dramatically increased in just one decade by nearly nine thousand. Throughout the 1820s to 1840s, there was a steady rise in numbers reaching 60,832 people. From 1840s onwards and throughout the remaining Victorian period the population trend which pinnacled in 1861, fell dramatically ten years later and continued to decline throughout the nineteenth century.

Population of the Blackmore Vale

1801                             43,750

1811                             52,479

1821                             56,736

1831                             59,344

1841                             60,832

1851                             60,579

1861                             62, 093

1871                             57,709

1881                             55, 334

1891                             51,268  [1]

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1911

1921