British Isles Vital Record Index - 2nd Ed.
I have often heard peeple discuss the BVRI and wanted to know what records I could expect to find per county. Hopefull this may help as a guide.
England Christenings and Marriages
Bedfordshire 33,515 6,619
Berkshire 57,837 14,310
Buckinghamshire 33,265 5,783
Cambridgeshire 157,016 29,162
Cheshire 285,892 51,607
Cornwall 6,249 10,563
Cumberland 7,285 1,199
Derbyshire 220,759 52,885
Devon 10,148 2,413
Dorset 342,117 61,663
Durham 33,766 2,919
Essex 61,787 23,400
Gloucestershire 189,039 93,780
Hampshire 205,708 42,121
Herefordshire 190,796 32,499
Hertfordshire 275,730 66,597
Huntingdonshire 108,627 31,375
Kent 292,808 47,403
Lancashire 825,657 287,538
Leicestershire 611 87
Lincolnshire 390,709 128,092
Middlesex (London) 181,123 17,793
Norfolk 7,113 8,494
Northamptonshire 69,787 34,168
Northumberland 316,301 917
Nottinghamshire 177,718 47,667
Oxfordshire 9,014 1,111
Rutland 1,309 187
Shropshire (Salop) 36,339 10,566
Somertset 15,956 1,225
Staffordshire 421,036 128,327
Suffolk 174,420 18,394
Surrey 101,080 16,765
Sussex 337,818 71,580
Warwickshire 78,539 12,926
Westmorland 67,043 25,590
Wiltshire 526,143 122,800
Worcestershire 73,064 20,023
Yorkshire 371,661 94,648
Scotland
Aberdeen 4,673 325
Angus 9,410 750
Argyllshire 40,069 1,501
Ayrshire 222,864 13,614
Banffshire 515 62
Berwickshire 100,226 320
Buteshire 20,764 946
Caithness 1,218 3
Clackmannanshire 2,907 37
Dumfries-shire 130,296 83
Dunbartonshire 1,560 105
East Lothian 159,349 155
Fife 91,347 4,724
Inverness-shire 853 20
Kincardineshire 287 12
Kinross-shire 12 0
Kirkcudbrightshire 62,935 2
Lanarkshire 338,372 10,067
Midlothian 576,127 2,109
Morayshire 1,329 37
Nairnshire 4 0
Orkney Islands 16 36
Peebles-shire 40,401 81
Perthshire 20,049 678
Renfrewshire 147,879 1,175
Ross and Cromarty 645 1
Roxburghshire 124,632 19
Selkirkshire 19,148 0
Shetland Islands 486 2
Stirlingshire 182,141 2,774
Sutherland 20 0
West Lothian 94,595 1,404
Wigtownshire 58,190 38
Wales
Anglesey 1 0
Breconshire 29 0
Caernarvonshire 4 0
Cardiganshire 10 0
Carmarthenshire 18 0
Denbighshire 4,517 895
Flintshire 6,243 1,287
Glamorganshire 57 186
Merionethshire 2 0
Monmouthshire 7,113 8,494
Montgomeryshire 4,745 704
Pembrokeshire 14 710
Radnorshire 2,015 333
Ireland
Antrim 92,120 17,959
Armagh 34,366 5,993
Carlow 9,572 431
Cavan 22,292 1,719
Clare 28,309 417
Cork 100,310 3,991
Donegal 37,268 2,754
Down 51,553 12,036
Dublin 84,404 9,545
Fermanagh 17,410 2,415
Galway 52,024 1,401
Kerry 43,829 513
Kildare 13,791 458
Kilkenny 18,653 563
Kings 11,679 622
Leitrim 16,700 491
Limerick 35,836 1,356
Londonderry 30,691 5,490
Longford 9,419 409
Louth 16,449 461
Mayo 58,689 540
Meath 17,050 440
Monaghan 17,650 2,012
Queens 11,740 488
Roscommon 107,519 12,730
Sligo 42,577 3,362
Tipperary 40,913 1,169
Tyrone 35,936 6,288
Waterford 23,600 579
Westmeath 11,065 405
Wexford 24,696 889
Wicklow 15,094 867
