History of Parish Registers in England: Difference between revisions

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 '''1653''' - Cromwell, whose army had defeated the Royalists, was made Lord Protector and acted as king. He was a Puritan. The parish church of England was disorganized, many ministers fled for their lives, some were able to hide their registers and other registers were destroyed. Cromwell ruled that there would be no one religion in England all religions could be practiced. The government took away from the ministers not only the custody of the registers, but even the solemnization of the marriage ceremony. The marriage ceremony was entrusted to the justices to form a new Parish Register (not Registrar) elected by all the ratepayers in a parish, and sworn before and approved by a magistrate.. Parish clerks of  the church were made a civil parish clerk and they recorded  deaths, births and marriages in the civil parishes.
-'''1656''' - The year of the plague and many burial entries in the parishes. Also the fire of London destroyed London Bridge and many of the records of London destroyed at that time.
+'''1656''' - The year of the plague and many burial entries in the parishes.
+'''1666''' - The great fire of London destroyed many of the records of London.
 '''1673''' - Affidavit from Magistrates required for burial in woolen shroud. If "Affidavit" appears on burial records it means that the person was buried in wool.