Marriages of Catholics in the Saint Petersburg Governorate according to Parish Registers of Tsarskoye Selo and Yamburg in the 1840s–1850s

The article is devoted to the analysis of the marriage behaviour of Catholics in Tsarskoye Selo and Yamburg parishes of the Saint Petersburg governorate. For this purpose, the Russian-language copies of 1840–1859 parish registers, deposited in the 1822 collection (Petrograd Dean’s Office of Roman Catholic Churches) of the Central State Historical Archives of St. Petersburg were analysed. Statistical methods of processing mass sources were applied, the data were processed using Excel spreadsheets. The article examines the seasonal distribution of marriages, the average age at first marriage, peculiarities of the marriage choice of Catholics. The research findings were compared with the indicators previously obtained for the Orthodox population of Tsarskoye Selo in the 1840s.