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"STOW, a district and a hundred in Suffolk. The district lies around Stowmarket; contains 33 parishes; and is cut into the sub-districts of Stowmarket, Rattlesden, and Walsham-le-Willows. Acres, 55,342. Poor rates in 1863, £10,624. Pop. in 1851, 21,110; in 1861, 20,908. Houses, 4,471. Marriages in 1863, 138; births, 676,-of which 56 were illegitimate; deaths, 488,-of which 185 were at ages under 5 years, and 13 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 1,395; births, 6,762; deaths, 4,010. The places of worship, in 1851, were 35 of the Church of England, with 8,947 sittings; 8 of Independents, with 3, 508 s.; 12 of Baptists, with 2, 360 s.; 8 of Wesleyans, with 916 s.; 10 of Primitive Methodists, with 703 s.; 1 of Brethren, with 300 s.: and 4 undefined, with 500 s. The schools were 25 public day-schools, with 1, 669 scholars; 59 private day-schools, with 1, 161 s.; and 46 Sunday schools, with 2,989 s. - The hundred contains only 13 parishes. Acres, 21,965. Pop. in 1851, 9,740; in 1861, 9,817. Houses, 2,088."
(From John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72).)
Civil Registration
In 1836, White's Description of the Poor Law Unions and Registration Districts shows this Hundred to be served by the Registration District of Stow.See also Suffolk Registration Districts.