Definition of "parish register" []

• A book, held in a parish church, in which baptisms, marriages and burials are recorded. (noun)

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• "On the 9th of September, that year, the parish register notes the burial of “Mary Shakespeare, widow,” her husband having died seven years before."
• "Thus, in the parish register of Buckland Newton, in the county of Dorset, the name is spelt in four different ways; and one of the spellings, which is still popular in England, is Tanswell, and opens up to us the true original of the name in Tankersville, the name of one of the knights who came over with William the Norman, and whose name is inscribed on the roll of Battle Abbey."
• "Whether such solemn betrothment had or had not taken place between William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, it is certain from the parish register that they had a daughter, Susanna, baptized on the 26th of May, 1583."