Place:Stow on the Wold Registration District, Gloucestershire, England

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NameStow on the Wold Registration District
Alt namesStow-on-the-Wold Registration Districtsource: alternate spelling
TypeRegistration district
Located inGloucestershire, England     (1837 - 1937)

For a list of the parishes in the registration district, go to UK BMD Registration Districts in England and Wales and follow the link for the county.

Includes parishes in Worcestershire 1837-1931 and some in Berkshire 1837-1844.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Stow on the Wold Registration District from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"The district includes Bourton-on-the-Water [registration] sub-district, and comprises 41,131 acres. Poor rates in 1863: £5,286. Population in 1851: 9,932; in 1861: 9,687. Houses: 2,181. Marriages in 1863: 59; births: 316, of which 21 were illegitimate; deaths: 230, of which 88 were at ages under 5 years, and 6 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60: 643; births: 2,892; deaths: 1,813. The places of worship, in 1851, were 23 of the Church of England, with 5,256 sittings; 2 of Independents, with 195 [sittings]; 8 of Baptists, with 1,395 [sittings]; 1 of Quakers, the [sittings] not reported; and 7 of Wesleyans, with 572 [sittings] The schools were 19 public day-schools, with 973 scholars; 13 private day-schools, with 212 [scholars]; and 27 Sunday-schools, with 1,193 [scholars].

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