Uncover 19th-century parish boundaries
May 04, 2021
2 minutes
Parishes play a vital role in family history. Their records form the backbone of our forebears’ lives, providing details of where they were baptised, married and buried – both before and after the advent of civil registration in 1837 for England and Wales and 1855 for Scotland. Until the 1860s they were synonymous with the Church, and are still important in local government despite the division into separate
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