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From: "Leonard Heyward" <>
Subject: Re: Parish Registers (Roz's comment)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 19:55:45 +1000


Hi David;

I couldn't help but respond to your message on the list, concurring
entirely. George Bernard Shaw once wrote, "If you can't get rid of the
family skeleton, you may as well make it dance!!". I think that sums it
up.

Regards

Len Heyward
Mt Evelyn
Victoria
Australia

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From: David Halliday <>
To:
Subject: Re: Parish Registers (Roz's comment)
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 17:48

S'funny,

Here we all are on the various Rootsweb Lists (and umpteen similar sites)
all contributing to a 21st Century equivalent of those old Parish
Registers - perhaps we should call them Social Registers. The point is -
what will people think of their contents in 200 years time?
And yes of course - the answer is - it really doesn't matter - it's
history.
We should learn from it but we cannot change or criticise it.

David Halliday
Bellingen NSW Oz
(with about the same percentage of "skeletons" in my cupboard as everyone
else).

----- Original Message -----
From: Roz Griston <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 11:32 AM
Subject: RE: Parish Registers


> yes, unless that minister was out tending his flock..not having tea
> with mrs. uppercrust and family. classism was a way of life in britain
> and it is still dying a very slow death.
> i mean seriously, to what purpose would it be to put an aside remark in
> a register. it was labelling..and remember you could be considered a
> whore for living with a man and never marrying him..but in the upper
> circles the woman was called a consort. moral judgements went hand and
> hand with one's financial status as well as birthright.
>
> consider the term fallen woman..where had she fallen from?
> roz
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary Brockmeyer [SMTP:]
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 3:21 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: Parish Registers
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joyce Stevens <>
>
> >>Apparently, parish priests felt free to write any comments they
> >>chose
> alongside marriages,
> >>deaths, etc, such as thief, prostitute, beggar, good man, etc.
>
> Am I wrong in my thought that these were not judgment calls on the part
> of
> the priest, but were instead acknowledged fact?
>
> Mary Hayward Brockmeyer
>
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