Bury St. Edmunds

1916·12.2 MB·English

by  St. James Parish (Bury Saint Edmunds, England)

BRIGHAM YOUNG
UNIVEHSITV
PROVO, UTAH

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BURY EDMUNDS.
ST,
JAMES PARISH REGISTERS.
ST.
MARRIAGES 1562-1800.
WITH PREFACE.
I
SUFFOLK GREEN BOOKS.
No. XVII.
WOODBRIDGE
:
GEORGE BOOTH, CHURCH STREET.
1916.
THE UBRARY -^
YOUNG UNIVERSITY
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PROVO. UTAH
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Preface V XXIV
—
Marriages I 240
Index No. i, Persons Married 241—303
Index No. 2, Places 304—308
Index No. Other Persons 309—320
3,
Index No. General... 321
4,
Errata 322
List of the Suffolk Green Books 323
HTAH COUNTY GENEALOGICAL
AND
JHISTORICAL SOCIETY

PREFACE.
Section
vi PREFACE. SECT. I. II.
question, " What have you done with those books which you borrowed ? " I may
add that both at Bury and at Woodbridge bombs have fallen and done great
damage within a few yards of the printing shops in which these three volumes
were being printed.
SECT. II. POPULATION. The population of Bury St Edmunds as
given in the first five Census returns is thus :
1801. 1811. 1821. 1831. 1841. 1851.
St Mary ... 4090 4206 5230 5494 6269 7232
St James ... 3565 3780 4769 5942 6269 6668
7655 7986 9999 11436 12538 13900
The exact equality of the two parishes in 1841 is curious and makes one half
suspect a mistake. But all the above returns lie outside my boundary, which is
the year 1800. It may be as well therefore to try and see what was the population
from 1560 to 1800, the time which is actually represented by these volumes.
During that time Bury consisted of two parishes, St Mary's and St James', which
seem always to have been about equal in size, St Mary's a little the biggest. As
there was no official numbering of the people before 1801 it is not easy to give the
exact population of any place before that year. One can only estimate it more or
less vaguely from various returns which were made for other purposes. I will
estimate it from such returns as I chance to have before me.
Bury St Edmunds.
A.D.
1377. Persons of 14 years and upwards charged for Poll tax 2445
1381. Persons of 15 years and upwards charged for Poll tax 1334
1524. Persons assessed to a subsidy thus distributed South
:
Ward 139, East Ward 100, Risby gate Ward 174,
North Ward 100, West Ward 140 653
1603. St Mary. Number ofCommunicants & recusants (4) 944]
StJames. NumberofCommunicants&recusants(16)746!
1674. Hearth tax return. St Mary^327, St Tames 335 ... )M27Q
TE-xempt 617 ... ... ... j
1757. No. of inhabitants. St Mary 3122. St James 2697 ... 5819
1775- No. of inhabitants in the town ... ... ... ... 7135