MARRIAGES.

The marriages celebrated during the year were 1,311; one marriage to 105.2 of the population. Nineteen persons were married out of every 1,000 living. The marriage rate in all England in 1872 (last year of publication) was 17.5. The marriages in Kensington were celebrated as follows:

In Churches 1077
At Nonconformist Places of Worship 71
At Roman Catholic 70
At the Superintendent-Registrar’s Office 93
Total 1311

The marriages in the three previous years were: 1871, 1,131; 1872, 1,132; 1873, 1,241.