Widows, widowers and remarriage in nineteenth-century Netherlands

Population Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 421-441

  Van Poppel, Frans ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INTERDISCIPLINARY DEMOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; HISTORICAL STUDIES; NINETEENTH CENTURY; POPULATION REGISTER; REMARRIAGE PATTERN; WIDOWED PERSON;

NETHERLANDS, BREDA; NETHERLANDS, GOUDA;

EID: 0029539863     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: 14774747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0032472031000148756     Document Type: Article

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