Parish Register

A parish register is a handwritten volume, normally kept in a parish church or deposited within a county record office or alternative archive repository, in which details of baptisms, marriages and burials are recorded.

Read more about Parish Register:  History, Contents and Examples, Dade and Barrington Registers, Transcriptions and Indices

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