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Unusual/Funny Parish Register Entries.
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Janet in Yorkshire | Report | 4 Dec 2005 22:57 |
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A wedding that never was at Bridlington - vicar had obviously filled in in advance all the details in the marriage register, ready for the happy couple to just add signatures on the actual day. Whole entry has a diagonal line across it, with the comment 'wedding cancelled - groom made off to sea on a boat ' Jay |
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Anne | Report | 4 Dec 2005 19:07 |
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In Bedfordshire parish records (can't remember which parish) I found a burial of 'a travelling Scotch quack'. I thought it was funny - obviously his medicines did not work too well and the fact he was from Scotland put him right outside the pale with the Bedfordshire vicar! Anne |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 4 Dec 2005 18:36 |
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Like you, O.C. I get sidetracked reading the interesting snippets. While I was looking for my JONES' I came across another child baptised in that Herefordshire village, ' her having no fingers on her left hand'. |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 4 Dec 2005 18:30 |
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I found one a while ago, Joe Bloggs (cant remember the details) buried, aged 146, a grate ayge. (And yes, I looked back to see if I could find his baptism 146 years previously!) Along with the reputed witches, pious widows, poor but honest annotations, I found a burial entry alongside which the Vicar had written 'A Great Fool'. And another, birth entry, along side which the Vicar had written 'she says' against the name of the father (her husband) No wonder it always takes me so long to trawl through PRs, I am constantly sidetracked by all this extra stuff. Olde Crone |
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Ellen | Report | 4 Dec 2005 18:17 |
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I found one in the banns at Oldswinford parish church. The names of the intended had been filled out but then crossed out and the vicar had written underneath that the marriage had been forbidden by the grooms mother as he was only aged 9. Ellen X |
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Historyman | Report | 4 Dec 2005 12:23 |
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As I go through Parish Registers searching for records re my one name study I always note down any interesting or unusual entries. Will start this thread with one that made me smile from the Burial Register of All Saints, Kirkby Overblow, Yorkshire. 12th February 1812. JAMES GRANBY STONES ESQ., LUNATIC, AGE 35 WHO SHOT HIMSELF AT OTLEY, AND WISHED TO BE BURIED AT KIRKBY. Has anyone got any similar entries to share? Regards Ray Whincup |
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