I agree but in Anthony's case he does seem to have been there until 1773 as he has actually signed each page of the Register book along with the Church Warden of the time. Meg. -----Original Message----- From: Teresa Goatham [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 24 February 2017 09:22 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [DEV] [STRAY] Anne w/o Richard FRENCHAM of Thornbury I'm not sure the words 'was there' and 'stayed' are quite the right ones. At this time it was most common to retain livings until death, but often curates were paid to do the work, . It's struck me before as a shame that our churches so often have lists of vicars / rectors, including those who held plural livings or were otherwise absent, and not the curates they paid (often a pittance) to do the work, who should really be the ones acknowledged. (The trouble is I think survival of records about who was present and even more about who the curates were who ministered in a parish are very patchy) See for instance the 1779 visitation replies for Thornbury - http://foda.org.uk/visitations/1779/Chanter232B/Thornbury.htm Teresa On 24/02/2017 08:00, [email protected] wrote: > From:[email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 10:29 AM To:[email protected] > Subject: Re: [DEV] [STRAY] Anne w/o Richard FRENCHAM of Thornbury > > He was the Rector of St Peter's Church, Thornbury near Holsworthy in > Devon but I have his name as Frinsham but have not checked any > original documentation. He was there in 1745 and was followed by > Anthony Frinsham 1745/6; his son or brother possibly, who stayed until > 1778. It therefore looks as if Richard was very much a temporary > Rector whilst Anthony wasn't available as most of our Rectors seemed > to stay for long periods. I don't know anything else about them and > Anthony has no gravestone in the church yard as I have recorded and transcribed all of them. > > Not sure if this is of any relevance but thought someone would like to > know this. > > Meg Galley-Taylor --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus