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Few mortality statistics available for the eighteenth and early nineteenth century differentiate by wealth or social status, although evidence suggests that a social gradient in mortality may have emerged in this period. These individual level burials were collected to analyse variations and changes in mortality in London's populous East End manufacturing district, in a very large parish where extant daybook accounts itemise burial costs, which varied according to services provided. These data consist of parish burial account book burials and parish register burials filling in gaps where there were no extant/accessible burial accounts books for St Dunstan Stepney, London between 1733 and 1843. This produces a continuous series of burials except for a gap beginning July 1808 and ending January 1812.

Transcriptions include full names, burial fees as a potential indicator of social status, and hamlet/street address. Also in some periods ages and causes of death.

All extant St Dunstan Stepney parish burial records in manuscript burial account books were transcribed, and manuscript parish register burial records were also transcribed to fill in gaps where there were no extant/accessible burial accounts books, between 1733 and 1843. These records were initially input into Excel spreadsheet tabulations by Jacob Field and Elli Warmington, directed by Gill Newton using the instructions copied in the ReadMe file documentation, and then harmonised into an Access relational database, from which the text files in this data collection derive.

Further information may be found on the CAMPOP Mortality Research Project website.