1861 Census of Scotland, Population Tables and Report. Ages, Civil or Conjugal Condition, Occupations and Birth-places of the People in Scotland: with the Number and Ages of the Blind, of the Deaf-Dumb, and the inmates of Poorhouses, Prisons, Lunatic Asylums, and Hospitals. Vol II, Table [38] : " Birth-places of the People in each County".

Show top level table	Scotland Country	Aberdeenshire Angus Argyll Ayrshire Banffshire Berwickshire Buteshire Caithness Clackmannanshire Dumfries Shire Dunbartonshire East Lothian Fife Inverness Shire Kincardineshire Kinross Shire Kirkcudbrightshire Lanarkshire Midlothian Moray Nairnshire Orkney Peebles Shire Perthshire Renfrewshire Ross and Cromarty Roxburghshire Selkirkshire Shetland Stirlingshire Sutherland West Lothian Wigtownshire

Where Born	Males		Females
	Under 20 years [1]	Above 20 years [2]	Under 20 years [3]	Above 20 years [4]
TOTAL POPULATION	711,774	737,973	698,719	913,730
Shetland	6,691	6,654	6,853	12,765
Orkney	6,904	7,654	6,732	11,078
Caithness	9,495	10,736	9,170	13,925
Sutherland	5,473	7,530	5,299	9,711
Ross And Cromarty	18,340	23,748	18,153	29,373
Inverness	19,468	25,425	19,585	32,390
Nairn	1,836	2,104	1,829	2,690
Elgin (Or Moray)	9,759	9,363	9,660	12,496
Banff	14,461	14,821	14,076	18,773
Aberdeen	53,049	49,498	51,384	64,418
Kincardine	8,712	9,958	8,322	12,536
Forfar	43,923	36,356	43,213	49,953
Perth	29,801	41,847	29,223	51,054
Fife	37,674	39,592	36,789	50,316
Kinross	1,947	2,572	1,847	3,104
Clackmannan	5,323	4,521	5,121	5,516
Stirling	22,033	21,360	21,665	25,943
Dumbarton	11,124	9,130	10,857	11,042
Argyll	19,158	27,659	18,894	35,070
Bute	3,068	3,479	3,113	5,114
Renfrew	38,134	29,628	37,720	39,153
Ayr	49,828	43,581	48,463	53,022
Lanark	130,684	76,026	129,339	94,948
Linlithgow	8,618	7,922	8,284	9,478
Edinburgh	53,688	43,389	53,373	59,567
Haddington	8,939	10,722	8,601	12,811
Berwick	8,453	9,826	8,136	11,896
Peebles	2,692	3,608	2,470	4,279
Selkirk	2,438	2,194	2,325	2,517
Roxburgh	12,000	11,302	11,518	13,962
Dumfries	17,662	19,273	17,457	24,603
Kirkcudbright	9,384	8,520	9,178	11,903
Wigtown	9,785	8,756	10,085	12,265
England	9,301	18,150	8,884	18,585
Wales	223	558	115	216
Ireland	18,357	84,865	17,859	83,002
Man, Guernsey, and Jersey	112	193	87	236
British Colonies	2,070	1,246	1,962	2,281
British Subjects Born in Foreign Parts	821	1,005	786	1,063
Foreigners	251	3,068	182	468
Born at Sea, British	95	134	110	208

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