church register
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of church register
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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Drumb, Tromb, Tromp, Trum, Trumpff, Dromb and Trump – the family name has had various permutations over the past five hundred years, according to the local church register.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2016
“Here is a church register dating to 1882,” she says.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2015
She had grown up believing that priests could tell whether someone was telling the truth or not, but Father Stylianopoulos had only nodded and written their names into the church register.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
For in the church register she wrote that she was born in 1777 and was the daughter of Phoebe and John Bowen—the latter a drowned sea captain.
From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson
Ten minutes after the prince rushed like a tempest into the room of the peaceful old pastor, and succeeded in preventing the entry of the "scandal," as he called it, in the church register.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
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