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Social structure in late 17th century CheapsideGill Newton
Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Mercer’s hall and shop fronts in 17th century Cheapside
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City of London Parish boundary map, showing the location of the 5 Cheapside parishes
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Difficulties of Family Reconstitution in London
• High population turnover
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Difficulties of Family Reconstitution in London
• High population turnover
• Administrative complexity post-Fire
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The Cheapside parishes before the Fire: a closer look
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Difficulties of Family Reconstitution in London
• High population turnover
• Administrative complexity post-Fire
• Marriages & burials outside home parish
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Marriages outstripping 3 united parishes burials and baptisms 1680-1720
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1680 1685 1690 1695 1700 1705 1710 1715 1720
marriages x3 baptisms burials
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Family size (parity)
Mean parity at death of either spouse N families
Cheapside 1538-1721 4.1 95
Clerkenwell 1550-99 2.5 83Clerkenwell 1600-49 2.7 179Clerkenwell 1650-99 3.0 117Clerkenwell 1700-49 3.1 309
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Linking Family Reconstitutions to Marriage Duty Assessments
biological families• longitudinal: 1548-1721
• baptisms, burials and marriages
• Anglican
all residents
• cross-sectional: 1695
• includes servants/other unmarrieds
• includes Nonconformists
• MDA family – current reconstituted family
• MDA adults – past (childhood) reconstituted family
• MDA unmarrieds – future reconstituted family
Marriage Duty Assessment Family reconstitution
Types of link
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Marriage Duty Assessment people matched in Reconstitutions
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husbands wives sons anddaughters
servants widows bachelorsand
widowers
other
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In Marriage Duty Assessmentonly
In Marriage Duty Assessmentand Family Reconstitution orburial register
68 %50 %
12 %5 % 21 %
46 %18 %
Are the 1695 inhabitants traceable in the parish registers of equal wealth to those not found?
All 225 heads of household by Assessment taxband
£1 4s45%
£5 4s1%
4s54%
144 matched heads of household by Assessment taxband
4s51%
£5 4s1%
£1 4s48%
Occupational structure by taxband: families listed in 1695 Assessment and in continuous observation from parish records