TABLE XXIV. COUNTY OF TALBOT.
Religious Denomination. Total of the County of Talbot. Inhabitants of Total.
Barker's Campbell's (part of), Forest, and Fryer's Creeks. Castlemaine Township. Creswick's Creek and part of the Ballsarat Diggings. Hepburn (Mount Franklin). Amberat (Daisy Hill). Elphinstone, Tarradale, and part of Malmesbury. Lexton, Carisbrook, Walbrook, &c.
PROTESTANT CHURCHES :—
Church of England 7,144 3,863 847 1,262 385 266 242 279
Protestants (not otherwise defined) 972 475 120 226 37 7 74 33
Scottish Presbyterians :—
Church of Scotland 922 500 54 165 70 16 46 71 2,243
Free Church of Scotland 535 228 58 146 29 10 27 37
United Presbyterian Church 82 52 3 19 3 5
Other Scottish Presbyterians* 7 2 5
Presbyterians (not otherwise defined) 697 307 98 171 47 8 15 51
Wesleyan Methodists :—
Wesleyans (not otherwise defined) 1,426 600 222 460 75 36 28 5 1,557
Primitive Methodists 71 57 3 9 2
Other Wesleyan Methodists† 60 20 4 34 2
Independents or Congregationalists 517 294 64 82 26 10 24 17
Baptists 291 153 37 77 9 2 7 6
Lutherans 266 114 40 74 30 8
Unitarians 64 38 6 6 11 3
Society of Friends 15 7 2 3 1 1 1
Other Persuasions (Protestant)‡ 105 57 9 20 11 3 1 4
CATHOLIC CHURCHES :—
Roman Catholics 2,245 1,202 182 380 227 22 105 127 2,586
Catholics (not otherwise defined) 341 152 52 82 35 11 9
Greek Church 11 2 2 6 1
Latter-Day Saints or Mormons 12 4 1 6 1
Jews 42 26 6 7 2 1
Freethinkers 18 10 1 4 3
Religion not specified 175 61 28 58 21 2 5
Mahomedans, Pagans, and persons professing no religion§ 226 74 17 122 6 4 3
Total 16,244 8,298 1,854 3,420 1,028 401 598 645