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

I mention this fact because I never heard of another parish register of equal antiquity.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower

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

Miss Charity is forty-five by the parish register, and Miss Agnes of the blue eyes and golden hair, is just nineteen and four months.

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu