Middle-Class Family Structure in Nineteenth-Century Glasgow

This article is based on a study of a sample of middle-class households in Glasgow in the second half of the nineteenth century. The empirical findings are intended to add to the currently sketchy picture of middle-class household structure in the high Victorian period, to enable the authors to draw firmer conclusions about the incidence, composition, and explanation of middle-class coresidence patterns. On the basis of this study, and the small number of other studies of the nineteenth-century middle-class family, it seems that extended-family households were as common among the middle class as the working class. However, although the incidence of extended households was similar, the composition of these households differed in a class-specific way.