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Gone for a soldier: family breakdown and the demography of desertion in a London parish 1750-91.
K. Da
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Research explores family breakdown and desertion of wives among urban poor in 18th-century England using Poor Law settlement cases.
Abstract
The author discusses family breakdown and the desertion of wives in urban preindustrial England using data from over 3000 Poor Law settlement cases from parish records for the period 1750-1795. (ANNOTATION)
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DA, K. Gone for a soldier: Family breakdown and the demography of desertion in a london parish 1750-91. Local Population Studies, 1990.