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British Isles Vital Record Index - 2nd Ed.
Breakdown of Records
Below is a breakdown of the records appearing on the 2 edition of the British Isles Vital Record Index from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The numbers in the tables indicate the number of records for that county. Clicking on the numbers will retrieve a pdf file with the breakdown showing individual parishes and the periods covered. (NB pdf files for the Irish counties have not yet been prepared and will be added in due course.) Copies of the BVRI can only be obtained directly from the Latter-day Saints.
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England |
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| 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 |
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Scotland |
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| 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 |
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Wales |
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| 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 |
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Ireland |
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| 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 |