pulation. There were however dramatic changes in the population from 1750 onwards. By the beginning of the eighteenth century the population for England and Wales had increased dramatically to 8.9 million, and in 1821 reached 12 million. It was during this period we see a population explosion. By 1850 the population had soared to an amazing 21 million.
             The census of 1801 is only an approximate figure. John Rickman (1171-1840) made a study of parish registers which only gave a rough approximation of the population. In 1538 Thomas Cromwell ordered the Church of England to keep records of baptisms, marriages and burials. There were however, problems associated with these records, not all clergy kept accurate records, some were careless in there book keeping and not all the populati
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