OCCUPATIONS of MALES living in the Principal Places within each County and Pastoral District.
OCCUPATIONS. TALBOT.
Castlemaine Township. Creswick's Creek and part of the Ballarat Diggings. Elphinstone, Taradale and part of Malmsbury.
CLASS I.—Persons engaged in the General or Local Government and Defence of the Country :—
Officers in the Civil and Military Service, Judges, Magistrates, Soldiers, Police, Messengers, and Workmen 23 24 17
CLASS II.—Persons in the Learned Professions (with their immediate subordinates) not in Government employment :—
Sub-Class 1. Clergymen and Ministers 2 1
Sub-Class 2. Church Officers—Lay Readers, Sextons, and persons employed about Churches
Sub-Class 3. Physicians and Surgeons 9 1
Sub-Class 4. Apothecaries, Dispensing Chemists, Assistants in Hospitals, Shops, &c. 3 1
Sub-Class 5. Lawyers, Barristers, Attorneys, Solicitors, Conveyancers and Proctors 3
Sub-Class 6. Law Clerks and persons employed in Lawyers' Offices 1 1
CLASS III.—Persons engaged in Literature, Fine Arts, and Sciences :—
Sub-Class 1. Teachers in Schools, Professors of Music, Drawing, &c. 3 1
Sub-Class 2. Architects, Civil Engineers, Editors, Reporters, Painters (Artists), Photographers 8 2 2
CLASS IV.—Trading—Persons who buy, sell, keep, or lend Money or Goods :—
Sub-Class 1. Merchants and Wholesale Dealers 21 1 5
Sub-Class 2. Shopkeepers, Storekeepers, Retailers, Pedlers, &c. 63 46 29
Sub-Class 3. Bankers, Accountants, Bookkeepers, Gold Buyers, Auctioneers, Agents, &c. 14 1 4
Sub-Class 4. Commercial Clerks, Salespeople and Assistants, Messengers and Porters in Shops and Stores 39 23 7
CLASS V.—Persons engaged in entertaining, clothing, and performing personal offices for man :—
Sub-Class 1. Inn and Lodging-house Keepers, Publicans, Livery Stable Keepers and Barmen, Grooms, &c., in Hotels 41 5 39
Sub-Class 2. Tailors, Shoemakers, Hatters, &c. 17 9 6
Sub-Class 3. Domestic Servants (general), Coachmen, Grooms, Gardeners, &c. 22 12 24
CLASS VI.—Manufacturing—Persons engaged in Art and Mechanical Productions, and in working and dealing in Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Matters :—
Sub-Class 1. Employers in Manufacture and Arts, Contractors, &c. 12 5
Sub-Class 2. Workers in Stone and Clay—Masons, Bricklayers, Slaters, Plasterers, Quarrymen, &c. 20 16 2
Sub-Class 3. Workers in Iron—Blacksmiths, Whitesmiths, Founders, Horseshoers, &c. 14 24 7
Sub-Class 4. Workers in Wood—Carpenters, Cabinetmakers, Coachmakers, Wheelwrights, &c. 42 36 21
Sub-Class 5. Other Artizans and Mechanics—Printers and Compositors, Bookbinders, Tanners, Fellmongers, &c. 41 32 33
Sub-Class 6.—Hammermen, Hodmen, Apprentices and Assistants to Mechanics, &c. 1 2 1
CLASS VII.—Mining—Persons engaged in digging for and washing out Gold 553 2,013 15
CLASS VIII.—Agricultural and Pastoral—Persons working land and engaged in growing Grain, Fruits, Animals, and other Products :—
Sub-Class 1. Squatters, Stockholders, Settlers, Sheep Farmers and Graziers 3 3
Sub-Class 2. Shepherds, Stockmen, Hutkeepers, and Station Servants 1 53 32
Sub-Class 3. Landed Proprietors (cultivating), Yeomen and Farmers 1 2 9
Sub-Class 4. Gardeners (proprietors and occupiers)
Sub-Class 5. Farmer's, Brothers, Sons, Nephews, &c., and Farm Laborers, Gardeners (working for hire, not Domestic Servants) 3 19 16
CLASS IX.—Carrying—Persons engaged in the Conveyance of Men, Goods, and Water :—
Draymen, Bullockdrivers, Cab Owners and Cabmen, Bargemen, Water Carriers, &c. 19 12 21
CLASS X.—Persons dealing in Food and Drinks :—
Butchers, Bakers, Fishmongers, Confectioners, Greengrocers, Brewers, Cordial Makers, &c. 35 53 17
CLASS XI.—Laborers—Branch of Labor undefined 28 41 36
CLASS XII.—Miscellaneous Pursuits—Persons engaged in occupations not embraced in other Classes 12 5 5
CLASS XIII.—Independent Means—Persons of Property and Rank, not returned under any office or occupation :—
Annuitants, House and Land Owners, Independent, Genglemen, &c. 9 6 6
CLASS XIV.—Persons engaged in Domestic Offices or Duties, and of no specified occupation :—
Boys under fifteen years of age (whether attending school or not) 212 259 59
CLASS XV.—Sailors 17 23 10
CLASS XVI.—Persons whose pursuits have not been specified, or who were unemployed 27 24 8
CLASS XVII.—Persons maintained at Public Cost or by the Community :—
Sub-Class 1. Prisoners in Gaols, Hulks, Stockades, and Watchhouses
Sub-Class 2. Patients in Hospitals, Inmates of Asylums, Immigration Depots, &c.
TOTALS 1,316 2,759 441