Delighted you had a good day! Getting as close as possible to original sources is absolutely essential to good research for accuracy and understanding of the circumstances. The Rsieley Beds registers had one of those Vicars who detailed deaths whilst chiding some locals! Delightful comments such as "Not Baptised, arranged special ceremony" or "Non comformist, buried in Mrs O' s orchard" a great help to anyone looking for burial place! These comments were alongside some rather gruesome details of the manner of death of some unfortunate folk! And there was a charming fellow at a Parish in Northants who alerted family historians to illegitimate births by proclaiming in the Margin "Ba****d!" Fascinating stuff compared to the GRO index or censii which leave us scratching our heads! Regards Marlene carogene wrote: > What a perfect ending to a rather special day, > I have just visited the following website > http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/home.htm as recommended by Tony, > and may I just say that after reading the PR's of Shenley today, it is just > wonderful to see pictures of the actual church and to read its history. > > The Rev Newcome who was the rector there for 49 years, seems to have been a > very caring person and did a great job of keeping the registers. A wealth of > extra detail has been added including many statistics, his hand writing is > easy to read - a real bonus! > I feel I got to know quite a few families from my readings today. > Incidently, as well as my BOOME family there were the following families > listed : GROOM, ROOM, and BROOM, so I took the time to read every entry just > in case! > This really does bring history to life so to speak, as you can follow each > family through the baptisms, marriages and then deaths. > If ever you get the chance to read a film of the PR's for your parish, do > take it, as it adds a whole new dimension to just names and dates. > Cheers > Carolyn > > > > > > > > >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

From: Marlene Shipman <[email protected]> > Delighted you had a good day! Getting as close as possible to original > sources is absolutely essential to good research for accuracy and > understanding of the circumstances. The Rsieley Beds registers had one > of those Vicars who detailed deaths whilst chiding some locals! > Delightful comments such as "Not Baptised, arranged special ceremony" > or "Non comformist, buried in Mrs O' s orchard" a great help to anyone > looking for burial place! These comments were alongside some rather > gruesome details of the manner of death of some unfortunate folk! > > And there was a charming fellow at a Parish in Northants who alerted > family historians to illegitimate births by proclaiming in the Margin > "Ba****d!"> That was a very common term used by many incumbents, the other most popular being "base-born". However, there were some who were kinder and used the delightful term, "merrily begotten", which I have seen a few times. I think my favourite parish register entry of all time is this one - with apologies that it has nothing to do with Hertfordshire but is still worth repeating..... >From the registers of Barlaston, Staffordshire:- "25 Oct 1752 – Sarah illeg dau Mary Sutton of Barlaston, spinster, & a travelling soldier (as she pretended and swore, but nobody believed). NB the mother is an impudent, brutish and profligate wretch, deformed in body, but much more deformed in mind." BTW, I hope the Listowner will forgive me mentioning this but one of the talks I give to societies is called "It's A Funny Old Genealogical World" and comprises a large collection of such entries from parish registers, censuses, MIs and newspapers, etc. Open to invites! -- Roy Stockdill Professional genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

Kia Ora Love "merrily begotten"! Why don't you publish a paper Roy? I'd love to read some! I have to wait weeks to get films from Australia! But they are better than Coronation Street! Marlene New Zealand Roy Stockdill wrote: > From: Marlene Shipman <[email protected]> > > >> Delighted you had a good day! Getting as close as possible to original >> sources is absolutely essential to good research for accuracy and >> understanding of the circumstances. The Rsieley Beds registers had one >> of those Vicars who detailed deaths whilst chiding some locals! >> Delightful comments such as "Not Baptised, arranged special ceremony" >> or "Non comformist, buried in Mrs O' s orchard" a great help to anyone >> looking for burial place! These comments were alongside some rather >> gruesome details of the manner of death of some unfortunate folk! >> >> And there was a charming fellow at a Parish in Northants who alerted >> family historians to illegitimate births by proclaiming in the Margin >> "Ba****d!"> >> > > That was a very common term used by many incumbents, the other most > popular being "base-born". However, there were some who were kinder > and used the delightful term, "merrily begotten", which I have seen a few > times. > > I think my favourite parish register entry of all time is this one - with > apologies that it has nothing to do with Hertfordshire but is still worth > repeating..... > > >From the registers of Barlaston, Staffordshire:- > > "25 Oct 1752 – Sarah illeg dau Mary Sutton of Barlaston, spinster, & a > travelling soldier (as she pretended and swore, but nobody believed). NB > the mother is an impudent, brutish and profligate wretch, deformed in > body, but much more deformed in mind." > > BTW, I hope the Listowner will forgive me mentioning this but one of the > talks I give to societies is called "It's A Funny Old Genealogical World" > and comprises a large collection of such entries from parish registers, > censuses, MIs and newspapers, etc. Open to invites! > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Professional genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: > www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >