Re: parish records
- From: Eve McLaughlin <eve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:45:02 +0000
> so if there are BT's
>>(Written almost before the the ink on the PR's was dry!) for the same
>>period, it pays to check both and keep one's fingers crossed!!
>
>BTs are written by Bisops clerk possiblt 12 months after event,so I
>presume ink would be dry.
BT were NOT written by the official of the Bishop or Archdeacon. they
were copies of the parish register made by the vicar or sometimes the
parish clerk, normally approximately at Easter, and there is evidence
that sometimes the local man had not got around to writying up the
register until then - so both versions were made from the clerk's rough
book.
You can usually tell - if in a combined book, all the baptisms are
written first, then all the marriages, then all the burials, it is
obviously not a record 'as it occurred.
' so the observation that sometimes the BTs were written before the ink
was dry on the PRs is accurate.
--
Eve McLaughlin
Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society
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