CHAPTER 5 — From Somerset to,Kinkora -

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Figure {\shows Somerset as mapped out in the Meacham Atlas of 1880, with a total of sixty households%0 The Canada Census of 1881 for Prince Edward Island has also been used to obtain a more complete picture of the settle—

ment. (EJ Table 14 gives a population profile of fifty-five

households that can be identified in both sources.

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Table 14: Somerset Population, 1881

Age: —16 16—45 45—60 60 Totals Female: 88 63 16 13 180 Nale: 71 63 16 13 163 Totals: 159 126 32 26 343

Excluding the nine households with two or less persons, the average size of the family is 6.9 persons; with a range from three to thirteen. A look back to Table 9, in Chapter 3, will show a remarkable similarity between the population

in 1861 and 1881. There was, apparently, a decrease in the number of households from 1861 to 1881: from fifty—eight

to fifty-five; and a larger decrease in the number of households that contained families: from fifty—four to forty—

six.

A comparison of surnames in the three censuses (1841, 1861,

1881) for Sou' West/Somerset shows considerable consistency.