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DDI2.5 XML CODEBOOK RECORD FOR STUDY NUMBER 8642 London Stepney Burials with Fees, 1733-1843 864210.5255/UKDA-SN-8642-2 Davenport, R., University of Cambridge, Department of Geography Newton, G., University of Cambridge, Department of Geography Smith, R., University of Cambridge, Department of Geography Copyright Davenport, R., Newton, G., and Smith, R. Wellcome Trust UK Data Service 27 May 2020 ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORYBURIAL RECORDSFEESMORTALITY Demography (population, vital statistics and censuses)History <P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">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.</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p>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.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p><br></o:p><span lang="EN-US"><o:p>Further information may be found on the <a title="CAMPOP Mortality Research Project Website" href="https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/migrationmortalitymedicalisation/">CAMPOP Mortality Research Project</a> website.</o:p></span></p><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR>Mortality, burial fees. England East London IndividualsSubnational All persons buried in Stepney parish, 1733-1843 Numeric Time Series No sampling (total universe) Transcription <p><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/assets/img/logo-cc-nc.png" /></a>&nbsp; The Data Collection is to be made available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International</a> Licence.</p> See <restrctn> https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/migrationmortalitymedicalisation/ https://oai.ukdataservice.ac.uk:8443/oai/provider 8642 2024-11-29T07:24:42Z ddi:codebook:2_5