Questions tagged [parish-register]
Records kept by a local church for events affecting parishioners, including births, baptisms, christenings; marriage intentions, banns, marriages; and deaths, burials.
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St. John's in St. Mary's
For the situation listed at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/9477351f-6383-4ccc-a986-0d6f22a9c904:
St. John's lay in the ecclesiastical parish of St. Mary's but was
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Irregular Session Catholic Marriage in Scotland's OPR
Would a Catholic irregular session marriage at St. Andrews in Glasgow on 25/11/1821 be listed in the OPR? I believe these are my 3x-g-gp Donald McDonald, Tailor, and Mary Crerar.
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Finding Catholic parish belonging to street in Brno
For the city of Brno (of 1885), I am looking for the birth entry of an individual (Leopoldine Konstantin). So found the address of her father and now I am looking for the correct Catholic parish ...
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Side notes with dates on parish records
I have here two Austrian Catholic baptism record from 1883 and 1893 with numerous dates scribbled at the side or at the bottom of the record:
What do these dates denote? Maybe whenever a birth/...
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Locating Hungary Civil Registration original indexes?
I am looking for the 24 February 1911 marriage entry between Marie Emma Kafka-Somfai (Mária Kafka-Somfai) and Dr. Karl Ritter von Taussig (Károly Taussig). (The only thing I have found was his death ...
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"Jos" name in itself or a short form of "Joseph" or "Johannes"?
I have here this German-Latin marriage record from Austria about the marriage between Angelus Constantin and Catharina Werckin on the 11th April, 1780 (last entry on page):
The father of Catharina ...
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Groom's birth place entry additions
I have a marriage entry here of someone (Edmund Hoffmeister von Hoffenegg) with birth place listed as Andrijevci in present day Croatia but then for some reason also mentions Klattau (Klatovy) in ...
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Vertical line and colon ("|:") in register entry
I am have here a hard-to-read Austrian baptism register entry with several additional notes added later on (note in the image from the beginning of the 20th century).
That it's hardly legible is not ...
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How to differentiate John Ormond (husband of Katharine Henderson) from others of the same name?
John Ormond, weaver, married Katharine Henderson, daughter of James Henderson, in Forfar in 1767. Baptism records can be found for three children:
Jean Ormond (1768) Forfar
Margaret (1771) Forfar
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Locating "Bankhead of ..." in parish of Forfar
I am attempting to determine the location of an area whose name is difficult to read on two parish records from the parish of Forfar:
The marriage of John Ormond and Katherine Henderson in 1767 (...
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How to interpret this Scottish Catholic Register birth/baptism entry?
I've found the entry for an ancestor's birth in the Scottish Catholic Register (1851, Glasgow) and I'm confused what two annotations might mean. I found it on ScotlandsPeople but have searched the ...
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Why might I be unable to find a parish burial record?
I have been looking online for the death record of a Charles Ormond from Forfar born circa 1780. He was living in Prin Cottage, Forfar in 1841 but isn't present on the 1851 census, which shows his ...
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Name of the church for this parish register?
This is a slip that identifies the parish register for the marriage of Frédéric Cormier and Emma Tétreault (see the related question Finding Actes notariés (Notarial Acts) when Notary's name is known?)...
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Determining if FindMyPast image comes from Parish Register, Bishop's Transcript, or something else?
I am looking at an image via FindMyPast for the baptism of a William Milman on 14 Apr 1805 at Okehampton, Devon as the son of William and Ebbet.
I think that this is from the Parish Register of ...
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Seeking Russian Orthodox Church Records 1840-1900 for Lagody, Poland/Russia (now Belarus)?
My grandfather was born in 1885 at Lagody/Lagodi, Poland/Russia (Vilna/Wilna gubernia) and came to USA 1911.
Lagody/Lagoda/Lahady is now in Belarus (Hrodna/Grodno province) and is still a small ...
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