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Bishops transcripts

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Searching Report 23 Jan 2008 19:10

Sue

I was looking at Leicester Bishops Transcripts today, and found them more legible then the parish registers, although ot works both ways some things i had found on the parish registers were missing off the Bishops Transcripts

Kal

Sidami

Sidami Report 23 Jan 2008 18:47

Really Gail I am missing a bap so maybe I could find it on that thanks

Researching:
Ringrose from Countesthorpe Lord and Burley from Countesthorpe...Dixon Dawson Wood and Wilkinson from Caistor ,Starkey and Wood from Edendam. Hare from Horncastle.

imp

imp Report 23 Jan 2008 18:25

Sue

In Lincoln Archives there is a good coverage for Bishops Transcripts on Microfilm - pain to load up -but I have found many people on there which have been missing from the Microfiched registers.

Gail.

Sidami

Sidami Report 23 Jan 2008 17:10

Oh Thanks for that Kath..
Sue

Researching:
Ringrose from Countesthorpe Lord and Burley from Countesthorpe...Dixon Dawson Wood and Wilkinson from Caistor ,Starkey and Wood from Edendam. Hare from Horncastle.

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 23 Jan 2008 16:58

Copied from a listing on Google:-

Bishops' Transcripts:-

These were ordered to be kept from 1598 when the clergy were required, within a month of Easter, to send transcripts of the registers for the previous year to the bishop of their diocese. After 1837, when civil registration started, many clergy ceased to send copies, although some did continue for quite some time.

Bishops' Transcripts (BTs) are useful in that they provide a second record and may have survived when the parish register has not. Details of baptisms, marriages and burials were also sometimes recorded on loose sheets prior to copying into the registers, and it is possible that some BTs may include entries not listed in the parish registers.

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Basically just another copy of parish records, but some of these might survive where the parish records don't and may also give slightly different information (although they should be the same really).

Kath. x

Sidami

Sidami Report 23 Jan 2008 16:52

What is the above please?
Sue

Researching:
Ringrose from Countesthorpe Lord and Burley from Countesthorpe...Dixon Dawson Wood and Wilkinson from Caistor ,Starkey and Wood from Edendam. Hare from Horncastle.