Author: Great Britain General Register Office

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-09-13

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 9781390346992

Excerpt from Thirteenth Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England, 1854 The Quakers attended to the number of at their 371 places of worship, containing sittings, on the Census Sunday (march 3oth, 1851) but in the year 1850 only 138 of the Friends married according to their own form's, so that there is still an unusual reluctance to marry among the male or female members of this remarkable sect, which, if it is neither sustained by hereditary accessions nor proselytes, will eventually decline in England. The Jews present quite a different aspect; they marry in considerable numbers (520 were married in 18 50) but the number who attended their synagogues on Saturday was 'only 4150; so that there was one Jew married to every 8 who attended. Marriage appears to be common, but polygamy, though it is allowed by the law of Moses, is, I am informed, not practised by the J ews in any country of Europe except Turkey. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.