Welcome to the web site of the Local Population Studies Society’s Parish Register Project! From this web site you can download Excel files containing the monthly totals of baptisms, marriages and burials for each of the 404 parishes used by E.A. Wrigley and R.S. Schofield to write The Population History of England 1541-1871: a Reconstruction (London 1981, republished with amendments Cambridge, 1989).

On the page About this website, we describe the Parish Register Project.

The Data page is where you go to download the data files.

For files containing details of the characteristics of each file, go to the Characteristics page.

Finally, to download a guide to the data and their use, go to the Parish Register Aggregate Analyses page.