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I think we (well, pdurrant) have milked as much out of this one as we can, and the only other answers I have left are variants on the others anyway:
7: There are nine people involved, who are the only ones who may be going to St. Ives, all the others "being taken" there. But since the question is limited to "Kits, cats, sacks, wives", this excludes the man and the narrator, leaving seven.
2802: If the narrator met the group as they were also travelling to St. Ives (and were overtaken by the narrator, plausible given the large size of the party), the answer in this case is all are going to St. Ives. The calculation is the same as for the 2800 answer, plus two.
So it's over to pdurrant.
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