Literally spinsters: a new interpretation of local economy and demography in Colyton in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

The author investigates reasons for observed changes in the number of marriages and baptisms and in female age at marriage in Colyton England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She "aims to extend the demographic analysis already carried out for the parish of Colyton in Devon and to place it in a social and economic context. The author has linked additional records of the parish such as poor relief documents to the original reconstitution. The most important addition to the present interpretation of Colytons past is the discovery of a low sex ratio. This is associated with domestic industry in the town. It resulted in a distinctive socio-economic community structure." (EXCERPT)

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