Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an act, passed in the first year of the reign of His Majesty King George IV, intituled, "An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution thereof" : M. DCCC. XXI [1821].
- General Register Office Northern Ireland
- Date:
- 1822
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an act, passed in the first year of the reign of His Majesty King George IV, intituled, "An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution thereof" : M. DCCC. XXI [1821]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![shows the Number of Marriages in each Year since 1754, but also the average Amount of Marriages for every Five, and for every Ten Years since the Marriage Act has been fully in force. It will appear in the sequel of these Remarks, that Results drawn from this Table would be very similar to the Results drawn from the Registered Baptisms. In the YEAR 1755 the number of MARRIAGES (adding a Supplementary Fiftieth part, for deficiency of Returns under the Act of 1801,*) was 49,379; Number of Marriages in each Year, from 1755 to 1800. A. D. Marriages. A. D. Marriages. A. D. Marriages. 1756 50,972 1771 6o,6l2 1786 68,992 1757 48,300 1772 60,337 1787 76,448 1758 50,672 1773 59,769 1788 70,032 1759 55,537 1774 60,512 1789 70,696 1760 57,848 1775 62,473 1790 70,648 1761 58,101 1776 65,462 1791 72,590 1762 56,543 1777 65,020 1792 74,919 1763 62,233 1778 62,727 1793 72,880 1764 63,310 1779 63,671 1794 7L797 1765 59,227 1780 64,309 1795 68,839 1766 57,043 1781 63,768 1796 73,107 1767 55,324 1782 63,071 1797 74,997 1768 58,331 1783 66,287 1798 79,477 1769 61,825 1784 68,935 1799 77,557 1770 62,693 1785 7L509 1800 69,851 For the Marriages in each year from 1800 to 1820 inclusive, see p. xxiii. PERIODS. Medium Average of Live Years. Medium Average of Ten Years. 1755 to 1760 to 1765 to 1770 to 1775 to 1780 to 1785 to 1790 to 1795 to 1800 to 1805 to 1810 to 1760, inclusive 1765 - d° - 1770 1775 1780 1785 1790 1795 1800 1805 1810 1815 d° - d° - d° - d° - d® - d° - d° - d® - d® - d° - 1815 to 1820 - d® - 52,666 1 QQ > 5^275 59,883 j 59,043 l ( 59,892 60,741 j 64,238 \ > 65,479 66,722 j 71,363 l 72,205 J 74,998 I 83,465 J 71,784 79,231 85,985 89,012 J 93,073 Concerning the Registry of BURIALS. THE Registry of Burials maybe supposed to be deficient, on the following consi- derations : 1. Many Congregations of Dissenters, inhabiting Towns, have their own peculiar Burying-grounds; as have the Jews, and the Roman Catholics, who reside in London. 2. Some Persons from motives of poverty or convenience, inter their Dead without any1 religious ceremony. But in estimating the deficiency from this cause, it should be con- sidered that a place must be very populous before the establishment of cheap Burial- grounds can become a profitable speculation. Such there are in the Metropolis, in Bristol, and in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. But the Number of Interments within the London Bills of Mortality is not wholly unknown and of the Interments at the Ballast-Hills near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a Register or Account is kept, of which a Return was received, and entered. 3. Children who die before Baptism are interred without any religious ceremony, and consequently are not registered. 4. Negligence vr * This fact was ascertained Very carefully in 1812, as is detailed in the Preliminary Observations to the Abstract of 1811 (p. xix.) 502. The Annual proportion of Marriages to the Population is as one to 134 in England and Wales, the several Counties ranging from one in 106 to one in 179 ; [See p. xxxiii.] the extremes take place in Middlesex and in Hertfordshire, the custom of surreptitiously marrying in the Metropolis increasing the number of Marriages therein, at the expence of the adjacent Counties. t See Par. Reg. Abstr. p. 200. 1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28406606_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
