Joiner Marriage Index Blog

Two new parishes have just been added to the county of Buckinghamshire with a further 982 marriage records, taking the total for the county to 58,092 marriage records in 69 parishes.

Addington has been added with 234 marriage records between 1558 and 1837.
Swanbourne has also been added with 758 marriage records between 1566 and 1836.

We are delighted that the Joiner Marriage Index has been mentioned in the last two issues of Family Tree Magazine. For those non UK residents who might not be able to find a copy of the magazine so easily, it is available here at Amazon.com.

It is interesting to look at the 1831 census which was the last census before the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria, and the last before the formal ‘civil registration’ of births, deaths and marriages began in England and Wales. 1837 is the year that the the parish registers ceased to be the main source for us of marriage records and is thus the year that the Joiner Marriage Index ends.

In Buckinghamshire in 1831 the total population was 146,529 split between 71,734 males and 74,795 females. Of those 46,379 were in employed in what the census of that year regarded as its 100 trades and handicrafts.

The census states that in Buckinghamshire, there were 16,743 agricultural labourers, 369 employed in manufactures, 8604 in the handicraft and retail trade, 1,176 capitalists and bankers, 3,213 non agricultural labourers, 1820 other males of 20 and over, 974 males servants of 20 and over, 702 male servants under 20 years, 4174 female servants, 23 auctioneers, appraisers and sheriffs, 431 bakers, 45 barbers or hairdressers, 45 basket-makers, 457 blacksmiths, 10 boat-builders and shipwrights, 13 bookbinders, 13 booksellers, 29 brass-workers, 37 brewers, 11 brokers, 12 builders, 2 land jobbers, 381 bricklayers, 116 brick-makers, 6 lime burners, 6 plasterers, 4 slaters, 86 masons or wallers, 21 house-painters, 363 butchers, 853 carpenters, 53 cabinet-makers, 230 wheelwrights, 224 sawyers, 120 carriers, 5 carvers and gilders, 1 caulker, 2 cheesemongers, 26 chemists, 40 clock and watch-makers, 17 clothiers, 80 line-drapers, 3 silk-mercers, 23 coachmakers, 39 coach-owners, drivers and grooms, 32 coal merchants, 49 coopers, 1 copper plate printer, 28 corn-dealers, 25 curriers, 9 cutlers, 5 dyers, 35 in earthenware, china and pottery, 37 farriers, 19 fellmongers, 18 fish-dealers, 21 fruiters, 18 furriers, 133 glaziers and plumbers, 10 glovers, 181 grocers and green-grocers, 57 harness-makers, 16 hatters and hosiers, 19 horse dealers, 105 hucksters, hawkers, pedlars and duffers, 11 ironfounders, 23 ironmongers, 6 jewellers, 38 lace-dealers, 50 maltsters, 4 marble-cutters, 8 milkmen and cowkeepers, 170 millers, 5 nightmen, 22 rag-dealers, 220 paper-makers, 16 pastrycooks, 7 patten-makers, 6 pawnbrokers, 19 poulteres, 15 printers, 686 publicans, hotel or innkeepers, 25 rope-makers, 22 saddlers, 998 shoe and boot-makers, 314 shop-keepers, 18 chimney sweepers, 6 spirit merchants, 11 stationers, 62 straw-plait and bonnet makers, 420 tailors, 9 chandlers, 32 tanners, 22 tea-dealers, 14 tinmen, 1 tobacconist, 3 toymen, 136 turners, 6 undertakers, 7 upholsterers, 13 wharfingers, 28 whitesmiths, 5 wine-dealers and 491 other males in handicrafts and retail trade.

This compares to a population of 1,471,941 in London, over ten times that of Buckinghamshire, in an area one fifteenth the size of Buckinghamshire.

Currently we have 57,110 marriage records in 67 parishes in Buckinghamshire.

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