The daily gazette., 1879-07-01
FIRST EDITION.
From the N. Y. Herald.
Mixing Of NationmIities In Ma srissge


From the N. Y. Herald. 4
Of NetisnaIities In Ma srlssge
1t mixture of blood, or what stock
raisers would call "crosslng the breed"
produces improved humans as well as
beasts, wo certain ly ought to be well i'm
proved in this singularly cosmopolitan
city. New York has often been called
"more Irish than Dublin" and to this
we might add "mOre German than Ber-
lin." For MARRIAGES we take three years
-1S74, 1875 and 1873 and here are some
OF the evidences ofa general mixing up.
Th're were, in The three years, 49, 600
couples united. OF the husbands the
greatest number were, of course, Ameri-
cans, 8,732, or precisely 81 per cent
Next are Gesmans,.7 $50 Ia all or little
over 32t per cent. Then the Irishmen,
2,5lO, less thsn IL. per, cent. England
furnished $50, over per cent. The
next highest number were the "un-
Known" or whose birthplaces were not
iscertain,d, Of whom there we're 542;
ihen Austria, E47S; France, 4O7; Russia,
294, Italy, 20; Poland, 2i3; British
America, 1913; West Indies, 1i5. About
thirty 'other Datl Qualities are r, presented
among the lusi ands. The whole num-
ner OF itbem IL natl We bis th was 8,732;
foreign horn, e6S-reIati' ely ~ ma
tive and g. foreign to every 100 hus-
bands.
Now, let ussee how these were dIs'ri
buted in their choice of wives. We
take only One year, 1875. There were
1868 grooms, 598 ueing Americans
These Americans had 2,1O3 American
wives, leaving 405 for foreign wives, OF
whom 1877 were Ii>h, JOG German, 81
Eng sb, 20 Scotch,l7 Canadian . u reuch,
s Austrian; 3 EACH itahan, Wel,h and
West I,dian; each ON Africa, Bel
gium China, Denmark India aud Nor
way; born at sea and 8 unknown
Besides their own country these native
born gtooms made alliances with at least
eighteen other nationalities.
The number of American born brides
In the same year was 3,304, who took
husbands of q nations; of Americans,
2,l03; all foreigners and unknown, 1,201 {.
Preference was given to Germans, who
numbered sos; then green Erin, 176; then
steady England, 127, Canada, 3i;Au trla
and Scotland, 80 each; France, 70; West
Indies, 25; Switzerland, II; Italy and
Sweden, II each; Poland, 10; Denmark,
.; Russia s; Holland, 8; South America
and Spain, each; Belgium, Wales and
Iudia, 3 each; Australia, 2; Norway,
Portug j and Turkey, 1 each; unknown,
3; born at sea, g.
Germany furnished the greatest num-
Der of husbands, $40; who took for
wives ] ,839 Germans, 556 Americans, 80
Swiss, 80 Anstrians and only SO Irish
women, 2s Eng ish, Is French, Scoth,
8 Canadians and 6 Danes, Holland;
Poland, unknown, and l each from
Belgium, India, Russia, Sweden and
Wales. and unknown.
German brides we're 2,131, who had
1899 Gerlr ans, 1O6 Americans, ~ Aus
trans. 43 Poles, 80 Swiss, 20 Russians, 10
each, English and French; ~ed,s,
Hollanders, 8 Danes, Belgians, each
| of Canadians, Italians and Norwegians,
2 West IDdians, only l freshman, and
each of Scotland, Spain and Turkey.
Ireland fnroished the next I'm
portant division. There were $40 Irish
grooms, who welded 6s6 Irish wives
1876 Americans, II English, 8 Canadians
7 & ,oteh, g of unknown origin, French
that one German woman mentioned il
the preceding paragraph, and each
| from Italy, Switzerland, Wales and the
West Indies.
While Irish grooms patreniZed only
l3 natl Qualities the daughters of Erin
were more liberal. There were 053 oi
them, taking for busbands-6S6 Irish
men, 1877 Americans, So English, so Ger
mans, 16 Scotch, l3 French, Canadians
4 each from Holland, Norway aud Swift
| d
GUM, Italy and Sweden, and l oact
from Denmark, Poland, Portugal, SpaiL
Wales and the West Indies.
These three natiOnalities furnished
nearly seventy four per cent of the hus-
bands and more than eighty four pei
cent Of the wives. OF the 1877 husbands
left 292 were English, 180 Austrian, II!
unknown, 1873 French and 102 Scotch
OF he III brides left (after counting
out American, German and lrisb) 25i
were English, 1874 unknown 149 Austrian
l21 French and so down to each from
China, Greece and South America
There were grooms but no brides, from
Australia, Portugal, Spain and Turkey
In the matter ofage we Il nd l62 groom
and l ,903 brides under 20 years old, II
grooms and brides between 90 and u
and one groom over 80. There wer'
5.126 bachelors mar led to a. many spin
,ters. 496 bachelors married to widows
III wido owers married to spinsters ant
423 widowers ami 423 widows who agreed
to try the bonds of wedlock for secont
or third or fourth time.
The preponderance of foreign blood II
our city is shownin the condensed re
cord of marriages for ten years--l8'6 Il
1876 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. foreign
80 .6O7-native, 23,488; wives, foreign
AZ, 444-- native, 20 ,651.