Genealogy Chat

Annette


so do I!



although sometimes one of the non-Anglican or Catholic religions would have had other jobs

eg., Methodist, or Wesleyan-Methodist, or Quaker ,........ but I don't think those religions necessarily lived in Rectories.


Do you want to give me the name so I can see if I can make more sense of it?




sylvia

Thank Sylvia,
they were servants to the rectory then.
Wm occupation was blacksmith.

could a blacksmith also be a vicar? I doubt it.

The Rectory is where the vicar lives

The Living, is a term in canon law (ie, church law) ........ it means a position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income. The holder of the position receives its revenue for the performance of stipulated duties.


In olden days, The Living was often in the hands of local landed gentry rather than in the hands of the Church itself. So the local "lord" would be able to nominate whoever he liked to hold the position of the Vicar in that living.



so either your ancestors were the Vicar, a member of the vicar's fmaily, or servants at the Rectory



Rectory is also sometimes called a Parsonage.




sylvia

In my Lyon family 1841 census it refers to to the family address as Rectory

when I looked up about that
It states
The rectory is the living in the

Please what does 'the Living in the' mean ?