<<<<<In a message dated 15/04/2004 09:49:44 GMT Daylight Time, GNicresearch@aol.com writes: To give you some idea of what that would entail, the population of the township of Sunderland itself in 1871 was 16,861.>>>>> Just to confirm what Geoff points out, and the task involved, the population of Sunderland Municipal Borough, formed in 1835, was 98,242 in 1871, 116,542 in 1881, 131,015 in 1891 and 146,077 in 1901. Regards Stan Mapstone