This page provides data of births, marriages and deaths of Brokets in the UK 1855-1954, extracted from St Catherine's House Index and the Scottish Record Office indexes and organised by:

		1. decade
		2. area.

Civil registration began 1837 in England and Wales, and 1855 in Scotland. 6.5% of births were said not to have been registered in England 1841-50, falling to 1.8% by 1861-70 (Finnegan and Drake 1994 p 66, citing the Registrar General's 35th Annual Report 1875 p 5). For greater reliability, figures are given here from 1855.

1. By decade

	Births	Marriages	Deaths
1855-1864	101	46	45
1865-1874	147	60	87
1875-1884	136	61	75
1885-1894	117	49	69
1895-1904	116	83	74
1905-1914	147	80	97
1915-1924	131	87	79
1925-1934	92	79	70
1935-1954	107	128	99
1945-1954	94	85	88
TOTALS:	1188	758	783

The figures for Scotland gradually rose throughout the period, while those for England fluctuated without much increase. Although the national population increased by 80% or more during the period, Broket births were less in 1954 than they had been 1855. Death figures are low mainly because they don't include females who married and changed names. The 2 highest numbers of deaths were during the decades of the 2 world wars.

2. The 10 main areas

1855-1904				1905-1954
Births	Marriages	Deaths		Births	Marriages	Deaths
185	99	92	London	206	167	119
127	59	75	Bedfordshire	57	38	39
56	23	27	Hertfordshire	37	24	17
55	26	32	North East	14	17	34
42	15	14	Glasgow	118	60	65
40	13	23	Lanarkshire	17	10	22
21	14	12	Cambridgeshire	3	7	16
19	6	5	Lincolnshire	30	25	18
12	7	27	Yorkshire	3	6	6
0	2	3	Essex	14	18	20

London tops both periods. Bedfordshire was next in the first half but its birth rate dropped by more than half in the second. Conversely Glasgow's almost trebled in the second half and was double Bedfordshire's. All other areas decreased except Essex and Lincolnshire. Care should be taken with the smaller numbers—a mere one or two families could explain the increase.