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6
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| pubmed:dateCreated |
1988-3-14
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| pubmed:abstractText |
This paper reports an exploratory reconstruction of the village of Berwick St James in Wiltshire using nominative information from nineteenth-century English censuses and ecclesiastical registers of baptisms, marriages and burials between 1841 and 1871. The data are first described, and a procedure for sorting and linking records from different censuses, and for linking census records to registration records, is outlined. A detailed analysis of population turnover in the village reveals that after 1851 there was a period of heavy net out-migration. Those who left the parish were overwhelmingly young people, and females were more likely to move out than males: almost all the females born in the parish between 1841 and 1851 had moved away by 1871. A consequence of this pattern of out-migration was that by 1871 there was a shortage of females in the marriageable age-groups (15-29 years). It is clear that this method of reconstructing English village populations promises new insights into the demography of rural England in the nineteenth-century, including, in addition to population turnover and migration patterns, such aspects as fertility levels and trends. A number of problems with the technique remain, however, notably our ignorance of the typical length of the period between birth and baptism.
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http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/DEMOGRAPHY,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Developed Countries,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/England,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Europe,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Family And Household,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Family Reconstitution,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Family Research,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Historical Demography,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Historical Survey,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Northern Europe,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Parish Registers,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Population Statistics,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Research Methodology,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/SOCIAL SCIENCES,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/United Kingdom
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| pubmed:language |
eng
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| pubmed:journal | |
| pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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| pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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| pubmed:issn |
0301-4460
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| pubmed:author | |
| pubmed:issnType |
Print
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| pubmed:volume |
14
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| pubmed:owner |
NLM
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| pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
475-85
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| pubmed:dateRevised |
2006-11-15
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| pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:3324930-Demography,
pubmed-meshheading:3324930-Emigration and Immigration,
pubmed-meshheading:3324930-England,
pubmed-meshheading:3324930-Female,
pubmed-meshheading:3324930-History, 19th Century,
pubmed-meshheading:3324930-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:3324930-Male,
pubmed-meshheading:3324930-Population Dynamics,
pubmed-meshheading:3324930-Rural Population,
pubmed-meshheading:3324930-Social Conditions
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| pubmed:articleTitle |
The population of a Wiltshire village in the nineteenth century: a reconstitution study of Berwick St James, 1841-71.
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| pubmed:affiliation |
Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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| pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Historical Article,
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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