Morning folk, Can anyone please tell me what the initials P.C. & P.V. are after marriages in early 1700 would mean. Would they be Parish Church and Parish Vestry? Would people get married in the Vestry I wonder!! Cannot think of anything else. Bev

Bev, I wonder whether they could be Latin abbreviations "per" [by] and then either "vicario" [by the vicar] or "curato" [by the curate]. Don't quote me on the exact Latin forms for the equivalent of the English "vicar" or "curate." in English-speaking countries the term "curate" is commonly used to describe assistant clergy to the parish priest, the vicar. David On Jan 26, 2014, at 9:18 PM, B. Edmonds wrote: > Morning folk, > > Can anyone please tell me what the initials P.C. & P.V. are after marriages > in early 1700 would mean. > > Would they be Parish Church and Parish Vestry? Would people get married in > the Vestry I wonder!! Cannot think of anything else. > > Bev > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message