{"title":"'Big Data' and Parish Registers: a Case Study of Mortality in Early Modern Non-Metropolitan Surrey","authors":"Sue Jones","doi":"10.35488/lps107.2021.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35488/lps107.2021.12","url":null,"abstract":"This article uses aggregate analysis of parish registers to consider mortality in the early modern period. Based on a case study of the majority of the historical county of Surrey between about 1550 and 1750, it explores the nature and geographical distribution of mortality crises and seasonal patterns of mortality in normal, non-crisis, times. For the former it focusses mainly on two crises only a few years apart but with different causes, the dearth of the late 1590s and an outbreak of plague in 1603.","PeriodicalId":35497,"journal":{"name":"Local Population Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69839272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Comparison of Poor Relief in Norfolk and Huntingdonshire","authors":"P. Greenhow","doi":"10.35488/LPS104.2020.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35488/LPS104.2020.24","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is an examination of poor relief practice in the parish of Mattishall, Norfolk, in the first two decades of the eighteenth century, and a comparison of Mattishall with four parishes in Huntingdonshire. The main conclusion is that, unusually for a lowland parish, Mattishall kept a very tight rein on the amount of poor relief disbursed, not allowing it to rise even at times of economic hardship. Other parishes allowed the amount paid to increase, usually by paying wage subsidies or supplementary relief and thereby bringing a large proportion of the workforce within the ambit of the Poor Law, or more rarely by effectively replacing all income for a section of the working-age population.","PeriodicalId":35497,"journal":{"name":"Local Population Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"24-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48134269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religious Change and Baptismal Days in Sixteenth-Century Non-Metropolitan Surrey","authors":"Sue Jones","doi":"10.35488/LPS104.2020.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35488/LPS104.2020.37","url":null,"abstract":"The religious changes of the sixteenth century profoundly affected many aspects of people's lives. Among these was a change in the expectation as to the timing of baptism. The 1549 Book of Common Prayer placed a novel emphasis on the performance of the ritual of baptism by clergy in front of the congregation, resulting in an expectation that baptisms would occur on Sundays or other holy days. This research note reports a preliminary exploration of changes in the timing of baptisms in non-metropolitan Surrey between 1541 and 1600, changes which provide an indication of the degree of its population's conformity to the established church. It finds that there was an increase in Sunday baptisms after the introduction of the 1549 Book of Common Prayer, a partial though possibly not complete reversal during the return to Catholicism under Mary, and then a gradual movement towards greater adherence during the course of Elizabeth's reign. By 1600 the majority of baptisms took place on Sundays. People in towns and those in rural areas seem to have behaved quite similarly, though there is the possibility of greater adherence to Sunday baptisms in some urban areas in the immediate aftermath of the introduction of the 1549 prayer book and of disruption to the timing of baptisms during the dearth of the 1590s.","PeriodicalId":35497,"journal":{"name":"Local Population Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"37-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49481215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Background Migration over Time: the Irish in mid-Victorian Cornwall","authors":"Peter M. Solar","doi":"10.35488/LPS104.2020.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35488/LPS104.2020.13","url":null,"abstract":"The census manuscripts of 1841 and 1851 show that Cornwall was just a way-station for the Irish-born. They came from southern Ireland, put down few local roots and moved on, with only 30 per cent remaining in the county and 15 per cent in the same parish. Few found jobs in agriculture or mining, Cornwall's leading industries. Many were unmarried and, of those who were married, most had English spouses. In 1841 60 per cent of Irish husbands with Irish wives had military or government connections. Perhaps 20 per cent of the Irish-born were not migrants in the usual sense, being visitors, students or the children of English-born parents.","PeriodicalId":35497,"journal":{"name":"Local Population Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"13-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47435103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paths to Marriage: Courtship in England and Wales, c. 1700– c. 1945: Local Population Studies Society Autumn Conference 2019","authors":"A. Coyne, K. Rothery, Tom Heritage","doi":"10.35488/LPS104.2020.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35488/LPS104.2020.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35497,"journal":{"name":"Local Population Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"6-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42101755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimating population sizes and demographic trends in Ipswich c. 1570-1620: re-evaluations and new approaches","authors":"Tiffany Haller Shumaker","doi":"10.35488/lps103.2019.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35488/lps103.2019.7","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the characteristics and experiences of the population of the town of Ipswich, Suffolk, between 1570 and 1620. It reassesses current estimates of the total number of inhabitants in the town at specific points throughout this period. This provides a basic framework for the subsequent analysis of the parish registers, which enables a better understanding of the town's demographic trends in this period. In addition, it puts forward new methods to estimate population size. These methods combine data from the town's communicant returns, parish poor rates, poor relief payments, and similar sources in order to determine the social structure of the town, the relative wealth of the town's parishes, and the approximate population sizes of the town's main socio-economic groups.","PeriodicalId":35497,"journal":{"name":"Local Population Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"7-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45503241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'A town built on migration?' Calculating the human capital value of migration to Reading, 1851-1871","authors":"D. Gooch","doi":"10.35488/lps103.2019.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35488/lps103.2019.26","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides an estimate of the human capital value of migration to Reading in the period 1851-1871 to the town's economy. This is determined by estimating total net migration to the town across this period by age and sex and assigning all migrants a value for expected lifetime economic output less expected lifetime consumption costs. The final figures are contextualised by comparison with the value of social overhead capital used to fund significant local infrastructure projects in the same time period and show that, from a human capital perspective, the value of migration to Reading was very significant. This article thus addresses significant historiographical gaps in the study of Victorian labour migration to southern provincial towns and provides an original perspective to studies of the economic value of migration and its role in the growth of such communities.","PeriodicalId":35497,"journal":{"name":"Local Population Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"26-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41983352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}