Parish Registers: A social history
Posted on 19th August 2022
Speaker: Ted Udall Parish Registers are an amazing snapshot of life in a local area These handwritten books, usually kept in the parish church, contain details of weddings, baptisms and funerals From them, it’s possible to find out who lived where in a Parish and what was happening locally at any given time The Registers were introduced in England and Wales in 1538 – and, bearing in mind that ten-yearly censuses were not introduced until 1841, the importance of Parish Registers... more