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Summary information

Study title

26 English parish family reconstitutions

Creator

Wrigley, E, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Structure, University of Cambridge
Davies, R, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Structure, University of Cambridge
Oeppen, J, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Structure, University of Cambridge
Schofield, R, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Structure, University of Cambridge

Study number / PID

853082 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-853082 (DOI)

Data access

Open

Series

Not available

Abstract

Reconstitutions of families from historical parish register baptism, marriage and burial entries of individuals in 26 English parishes (Alcester, Aldenham, Ash, Austrey, Banbury, Birstall, Bottesford, Bridford, Colyton, Dawlish, Earsdon, Gainsborough, Gedling, Great Oakley, Hartland, Ipplepen, Lowestoft, March, Methley, Morchard Bishop, Odiham, Reigate, Shepshed, Southill, Terling and Willingham). These data formed the empirical basis for the population history of England presented in: EA Wrigley, RS Davies, JE Oeppen and RS Schofield: 'English Population History from Family Reconstitution: 1580-1837' (Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Using families reconstructed from baptism, burial and marriage records from Anglican parish registers as a national population sample to explore the demographic history of England. This included detailed studies of fertility, mortality and nuptiality, and refinements to previous estimates of population size and structure.

Topics

HistoryDemography (population, vital statistics and censuses)

Keywords

ENGLANDDEMOGRAPHYPOPULATION HISTORYPOPULATIONPARISH RECORDS2018

Methodology

Data collection period

01/01/1967 - 01/01/1997

Country

United Kingdom

Time dimension

Not available

Analysis unit

Household
Individual

Universe

Not available

Sampling procedure

Not available

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Sample of 26 parishes selected for completeness and length of good quality event recording from a non-random sample of locations studied by English local historians and volunteer enthusiasts. Baptism, burial and marriage records transcribed and compiled into families using Tony Wrigley's adaptation of Louis Henry's method for family reconstitution. Studied population consists of families and individuals who resided long enough in an English parish to record events in its Anglican parish register (no coverage of out-migrants).

Funding information

Grant number

not known/applicable - funded by old ESRC block grant

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2018

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