Study 4020 - Vital Statistics: Marriage, 1841 - 1870

The Registration District-level marriage statistics in 'mar_rd' were built up using tables each covering a complete decade which appeared in the Decennial Supplements of the Registrar General for the 1840s, 1850s and 1860s, plus data for individual years taken from later Annual Reports of the Registrar. The transcriptions covering the three decades have been preserved in separate tables.

For an analysis based on these data, see H.R. Southall and D.M. Gilbert, 'A Good Time to Wed: marriage and economic distress in England and Wales, 1839-1914', Economic History Review, XLIX (1996), pp.36-58.

Tables described in this section:

'mar_rd': Marriage statistics suitable for constructing time series; Registration Districts in England and Wales, 1841 to 1870.

'mar_1840': Number of marriages for Registration Districts in England and Wales by calendar year, 1841 to 1850.

'mar_1850': Number of marriages for Registration Districts in England and Wales by calendar year, 1851 to 1860.

'mar_1860': Number of marriages for Registration Districts in England and Wales by calendar year, 1861 to 1870.

(c) Humphrey Southall, David Gilbert and Ian Gregory, 1996.