Frensham Parish Register – 1649 to 1810
Background to Parish Registers: In 1538, Thomas Cromwell, Vicar General, ordered every clergyman to ‘kepe one boke or register wherin ye shall write the day and yere of every weddyng, christenying, and buryng made within your parishe for yowr time’. Further, the clergyman was to ‘lay upp the boke in a sure coffer with two […]