LIST OF COUNTIES IN THE ORDER OF THEIR EARLY MARRIAGES, AS SHOWN BY THE NUMBER OF MARRIAGES, UNDER TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE, IN EVERY 1000 MARRIAGES.

Amongst Males.

Counties above the Average.		Counties below the Average.
Bedford	109	Gloucester	42
Hunts	99	Lincoln	39
Leicester	79	Northumb.	39
Hertford	75	Sussex	38
Bucks	74	Rutland	36
Cambridge	73	Durham	35
Northamp.	71	Cumberland	33
Wilts	68	Cornwall	32
Stafford	62	Westmor.	32
Nottingham	60	S. Wales	30
Essex	57	Salop	29
York	57	Monmouth	28
Worcester	56	N. Wales	27
Chester	54	Kent	26
Suffolk	52	Southamp.	25
Lancaster	50	Devon	22
Norfolk	50	Middlesex	18
Berks	48	Hereford	17
Dorset	47	Surrey	16
Somerset	47
Derby	46	Average for England and Wales	43
Oxford	46
Warwick	46

Amongst Females.

Counties above the Average.		Counties below the Average.
Huntingdon	336	Warwick	131
Bedford	235	Cornwall	131
Cambridge	227	Westmor.	128
Hertford	210	Rutland	128
Essex	204	Dorset	125
Bucks	194	Northumb.	124
Northamp.	190	Southamp.	118
York	187	Somerset	112
Leicester	179	Monmouth	105
Stafford	176	Cumberland	105
Wilts	164	Gloucester	104
Suffolk	162	Shropshire	95
Sussex	160	Surrey	91
Nottingham	158	Middlesex	85
Lincoln	153	Devon	82
Oxford	151	S. Wales	82
Chester	151	Hereford	79
Worcester	151	N. Wales	77
Norfolk	148
Berks	143	Average for England and Wales	135
Durham	142
Kent	140
Lancaster	139
Derby	138

⁂ The rule is, that where the greatest number of males marry at an early age, the greatest number of females do so likewise—the exceptions being Dorset, Somerset, and Warwick, among the males, and Sussex, Lincoln, Durham, and Kent among the females.

††† There are, on an average, rather more than 3 females married at an early age to every male.