Analysis of numbers of births, marriages & deaths - English

Some interesting results emerged from an analysis of the births, marriages and deaths from 1660 onwards by decade for members of the English branches in England (and English citizens who were registered overseas).  The information is based on the data held as at November 2025.

1870-1879

1860-1869

1900-1909

57

44

37

For births or christenings the decades with the most entries were:

For marriages the decades with the most entries were:

1920-1929

1960-1969

1930-1939

30

28

27

For deaths or burials the decades with the most entries were:

1960-1969

1910-1919

1870-1879

31

26

25

It is sad to report that over one third of the deaths or burials in the 1870s were of children of less than 12 months old.  

If there is an entry for both a birth and a christening for one person in my list of events then I have only included one of them in the calculations.  I have taken the same approach for deaths and burials.

Due to changes in the way that records are now made available to the public I have no data for births and marriages from 2010 onwards.

(For some reason the bar chart for christenings / births won't copy across in the same way as the other two.)

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