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Offline kath davis

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Church register entry
« on: Tuesday 21 October 25 15:41 BST (UK) »
While looking for something else - I get easily distracted! I found this entry at the front of the parish register I was browsing. I wonder how many snippets we miss by not looking at those first few - often empty pages of registers?
Davis - Worcestershire
Dobson - Bucks/Essex
Longfield - Yorkshire/Newcastle
Franklin - Lincs/Yorks border
Exelby - Yorkshire
Chapman - Cambridgeshire
Aitken - Fife/Lincolnshire
Harrison - Yorkshire
Palfreman - Yorkshire

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Re: Church register entry
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 21 October 25 17:25 BST (UK) »
A little gem of information :)

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Re: Church register entry
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 22 October 25 15:31 BST (UK) »
This entry was actually a copy of the original - so someone else found it interesting, while the register was still in use.  Presumably most priests were not willing to marry 2 women, so one of them 'became a man' - simple solution!
Davis - Worcestershire
Dobson - Bucks/Essex
Longfield - Yorkshire/Newcastle
Franklin - Lincs/Yorks border
Exelby - Yorkshire
Chapman - Cambridgeshire
Aitken - Fife/Lincolnshire
Harrison - Yorkshire
Palfreman - Yorkshire