Excerpt from The Sheffield Directory and Guide: Containing a History of the Town, an Alphabetical List and Classification of the Merchant Manufacturers, and Principal Inhabitants, Including the Neighbouring Towns and Villages; With Commercial Information, &C The census of 1755 was taken by the desire of the Rev. James Wilkinson, but not in that regular manner as to ensure cornplete accuracy It was done by John Rotherham, and was proceeded in as follows He first took an exact number of the families and souls in a certain portion of the town, and then the families only in the other part, as is noticed in the table, and therefrom inferred the number of souls. This system would not be attended with the same correctness which attends later estimates; but it is suficiently near to answer the purpose for which we have introduced it. In every part of the parish, the number of inhabitants are so rapidly increasing, that we should not wonder to see its popala tion, in 1881, amount to nearly The increase in the ten years which intervened between 1811 and 1821, was, in the whole parish, and in the township of Sheflield, The entire population of the parish, in the latter year, was unoccupied houses, On the event of the memorable survey which took place in the reign of William the Conqueror, Sheflield was returned as a member of the Manor of Hallam, and is said to have been inland, an expression not easily to be understood; nor does Mr. Hunter's explication solve the problem in a satisfactory manner. However, whatever might be the condition of Shef field in the Saxon era, before the expiration of a century and a half after the advent of the Normans, the consequence of the Saxon Hallam gave way to its rival, and Sheflield for nearly six hundred years has been considered the head of the district. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.