Back to home pageSPRING 1993 - VOLUME 50
93.49.01 - English - Alan DYER
Age Checkability and Accuracy in the Censuses of Six Kentish Parishes, 1851-81) (p. 19-38)
With the help of parish registers, the author checks the accuracy of the ages declared in the five censuses over the period 1851-1881 in six neighbouring parishes in Kent. It is possible to make this check for more than 70% of the people in the census and it appears that the declared age is exact in eight cases out of ten. The author studies the variations in the accuracy of age declaration based on various socio-demographic determinants. (UNITED KINGDOM, HISTORY, AGE REPORTING, CENSUSES)
93.49.02 - English - Margaret GERRISH
Following the Fish to Grimsby (p. 39-50)
The censuses in the latter half of the 19th century and other sources permit the author to analyse the migration of Devon and Kent fishermen (by noting the birthplaces of their children) and their controversial role in the expansion of the port of Grimsby. (UNITED KINGDOM, HISTORY, LABOUR MIGRATION)
AUTUMN 1993 - VOLUME 51
93.49.03 - English - Charles PHYTHIAN-ADAMS
Local History and Societal History (p. 30-45)
In this text of a Cambridge conference, the author pleads for the development, between national history and local micro-history, of the history of spaces of an intermediary level which present stable specificity and cultural homogeneity over time. He believes that this geographical-cultural analytical framework which has been so far neglected is highly promising in rich and fertile studies which he has baptised "societal history". (UNITED KINGDOM, HISTORY, REGIONAL DEMOGRAPHY)
93.49.04 - English - Claire JARVIS
The Reconstitution of Nineteenth Century Rural Communities (p. 46-53)
British parish registers, which have enabled numerous works of family reconstitution in the 17th and 18th centuries, unfortunately become highly defective from 1812 onwards, to the point that they can be considered as completely useless for family reconstitution. Using the example of three rural parishes, the author shows that, by means of a fruitful comparison with censuses and using some methodological adaptations, the possibilities offered to British historical demography by last century's parish registers are far from negligible. (UNITED KINGDOM, HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY, FAMILY RECONSTITUTION, PARISH REGISTERS)
93.49.05 - English - David POSTLES
The Changing Pattern of Male Forenames in Medieval Leicestershire and Rutland to c.1350 (p. 54-61)
In the first part of this article, the author studies the persistence, followed by the decline, of male forenames of autochtonous origin (insular) in Leicestershire and Rutland in the 12th and the early 13th centuries. The second part contains a study of forenames of continental-Germanic and Christian origin which replaced them: the stock of forenames became progressively concentrated and a certain differentiation occurred in this respect between town and country. (UNITED KINGDOM, HISTORY, GIVEN NAME)
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