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Re: Help deciphering a Bishop's Transcript please
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 29 July 23 20:11 BST (UK) »
It looks as though you'd be able to get a transcript of the parish register entry from Durham Records Online - pay per view, or cheaper with a batch of credits.

Hi arthurk,

Thanks for the correction to Parkin.

Do you think the parish register entry would contain more information than the Bishop's Transcript? I was under the impression that the latter were copies of the former.

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Re: Help deciphering a Bishop's Transcript please
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 30 July 23 03:10 BST (UK) »
Sometimes the Parish Register and the Bishop's Transcript do contain slightly different information. This note from the familysearch entry on Bishop's Transcripts:

"Bishop's transcripts are often of value even when parish registers exist, as priests often recorded either additional or different information in their transcripts than they did in the original registers."
https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/England_Bishop%27s_Transcripts_-_FamilySearch_Historical_Records

I've never come across one with additonal notes in my own research, but it must happen. Though in your case you have the BT already, so I'm not sure if the Parish Register would necessarily be worth obtaining.

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Re: Help deciphering a Bishop's Transcript please
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 30 July 23 11:35 BST (UK) »
[EDIT: I'm too late to edit my previous post about Durham Records Online, and Gadget has already looked there now anyway (see next post), but there's something else you might want to consider, as follows:]

As you already have an image of the BT, the most useful extra thing the PR is likely to offer you would be the original signatures, which you wouldn't get in a transcript. From a quick look at Genuki, it looks as though the registers can be consulted at both Northumberland Archives and Tyne & Wear Archives - obviously one of these will have only a filmed copy, but even where an original register is held, you are usually expected to use a film.

According to their websites, both these archives have a copying service, but I don't know what it would cost. Others who use these archives regularly might be able to tell you more.


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Re: Help deciphering a Bishop's Transcript please
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 30 July 23 13:10 BST (UK) »
I've just looked at the entry in Durham Records Online but it gives no further information than that given in the BT.

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PS  it doesn't say it is from the BTs whereas others do.
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« Reply #13 on: Sunday 30 July 23 13:50 BST (UK) »
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