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27 October, 2011 Resources



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	Parish Registers: once the only record of births, marriages and deaths, everyone was in! Not quite true actually, but certainly many more than you would find these days. The very first parish registers date back to the C16 when in 1538 Thomas Cromwell ordered each parish to record all the christenings, marriages and burials in a register. Initially these were loose sheets which got lost over time, so in 1597 an order came out that the records should be in bound books. Also, in 1597 a copy of the register entries had to be submitted to the bishops office [Bishops Transcripts], and sometimes these are invaluable when the original registers have been destroyed, damaged or lost. Depending on the clerk of the time various additional notes were added but there was no consistent form of entry. Hardwicke’s Marriage Act of 1753 was responsible for creating a standardised method of recording marriages, and Rose’s Act of 1812 standardised christening and burial entries. Samples can be found below.

	Christening pre 1812 Christening post 1812 Marriage after Hardwicke’s Marriage Act Burial pre 1812 Burial post 1812

	Wills: coming soon

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