parish register

American  

noun

Ecclesiastical.

1. the register of the christenings, marriages, and burials in a parish.

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parish register British  

noun

1. a book in which the births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths in a parish are recorded

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Etymology

Origin of parish register

First recorded in 1645–55

Example Sentences

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parish register

Parishioners will read the names of the 101 African Americans, most of them held in bondage, whose baptisms were recorded in the original parish register.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2013

Just then Alidoro reappears, no longer as a beggar and declares that, according to the parish register, the Baron has three daughters.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2012

There is no record of any legal offspring, but the baptism of a “base son” of Archibald Armstrong is entered in the parish register of the 17th of December 1643.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various

Moreover, it was not entered in the parish register until after the birth of Randolph, and then not in the usual form.

From Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy

The local historian is silent respecting this case of suicide, and all that is now known of the poor woman’s sad end is contained in the parish register.

From England in the Days of Old by Andrews, William