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Most pre 1600 parish registers are written in Latin, but, other than first names, the number of Latinised words used is very small. Difficulty in reading comes perhaps more from the style of writing and spelling, which had yet to be standardised. | Most pre 1600 parish registers are written in Latin, but, other than first names, the number of Latinised words used is very small. Difficulty in reading comes perhaps more from the style of writing and spelling, which had yet to be standardised. | ||
Because it was not stated how entries should be kept, ministers and parish clerks devised their own formats. In some registers baptisms, marriages and burials appear in separate columns on the same page, in others they are grouped separately in different parts of the book, or all three may appear together in chronological order. Information supplied varies from a very unhelpful 'a child of Thomas Browne was baptised', to the very detailed Dade registers of the late eighteenth century, which included details of a child's position in the family, names of all four grandparents and where they lived, as well as the more standard parents' names and father's occupation. | Because it was not stated how entries should be kept, ministers and parish clerks devised their own formats. In some registers baptisms, marriages and burials appear in separate columns on the same page, in others they are grouped separately in different parts of the book, or all three may appear together in chronological order. Information supplied varies from a very unhelpful 'a child of Thomas Browne was baptised', to the very detailed [[Dade parish registers|Dade registers]] of the late eighteenth century, which included details of a child's position in the family, names of all four grandparents and where they lived, as well as the more standard parents' names and father's occupation. | ||
From 1598 it was also required that copies of parish register entries (known as Bishop's Transcripts) were to be sent annually to the Bishop's Registry. An exception to this is [[Norfolk]], where for six out of every seven years, copies were sent to the relevant Archdeacon (either Norfolk or Norwich), only in the seventh year were they sent to the Bishop. This makes Norfolk somewhat more complicated to search since the two sets of transcripts are kept separately. | From 1598 it was also required that copies of parish register entries (known as Bishop's Transcripts) were to be sent annually to the Bishop's Registry. An exception to this is [[Norfolk]], where for six out of every seven years, copies were sent to the relevant Archdeacon (either Norfolk or Norwich), only in the seventh year were they sent to the Bishop. This makes Norfolk somewhat more complicated to search since the two sets of transcripts are kept separately. | ||