Genealogy Chat

So wish Dade's system had been adopted everywhere - wouldn't it have made life easier? See below for a gem. Jay

Found in a Dade register, the following baptism entry: October 1781 – 4 generations given John Tindal son of Henry Tindal farmer, son of William & Sarah Tindale of Yapham, he a farmer, son of Jms Tindal of Yapham, farmer & Jane, daughter of Robert Abel of Bishopthorpe born Sep 26th 1781 baptised Oct 5th 1781 Pity it’s the Abels I’m chasing and not the Tindalls! It was the first entry in the new register and took up half the page – after 3 more, the vicar got fed up of the new system and reverted to just giving details of parents. Jay

All right for you (SIGH) though I have got entries in Barrington registers and Norfolk burials can take you back a long way.

So it wasn't a printed register, then? The Barrington registers are specially printed, to encourage the writer to enter all the information. But how great to get all that info!

Yes Phoenix, it was printed, and he still complied to a certain extent, but for the first couple of pages he went overboard and beyond the call of duty. Unfortunately, although they were issued to all Yorkshire parishes, not all vicars filled them in appropriately. Isn't it ironic, when it was introduced to 'afford much clearer intelligence to the researches of posterity than the imperfect method hitherto generally pursued”? Jay

Now in some of the Norfolk parishes, the vicars are heroically trying to squeeze all the info they used to enter into the Rose's registers. This sometimes continues into the 1820s and 1830s.