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Topic: What does this mean? Chapel Of Ease (Read 214 times)
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anne
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Does anyone know what a chapel of ease is.Apparently Chapelshade church in Dundee was a chapel of ease.Just curious.Anne. 
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Ayrshire,Kennedy,Faulds,Cuthbert,Crawford,Young,Edgar,Bell
Dundee,Nicol,Cant,Kennedy,Jamison,
Dumfrieshire,Wilson,Maxwell,Lammie,Cowan,Young,
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Chris in 1066Land
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Hi there anne
According to my Oracle
A Chapel of Ease was one which was provided for 'the ease and comfort' of those living at some distance from a parish church, and was subordinate to it. But such chapels did not usually have rights of burial so that parishoners were compelled to carry corpses to the mother church for internment.
The Companion to the English Parish Church by Stephen Friar,1996.
Chris in 1066Land
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Catherine
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Hi!
A chapel or dependent church, built for the ease or accomodation of an increasing parish, or for parishioners who live at a distance from the principal church.
Hope this helps
Catherine 
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anne
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Thankyou Chris and Cathrine.I am now wondering why my GGGgrandparents would marry in a distant church when they were born in Dundee.There are loads of churches in Dundee,i cant fathom out why they would go so far away.I have never heard of the Chapelshade Church.My GGGGrandmother died in Cowgate Dundee,i have no idea where GGGGrandfather died i have found no burial records for either.Anyway thankyou both again,its just another puzzle.Anne. 
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Mobo
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Funnily enough in this part of Britain (the North West), a Chapel of Ease is where the body of the dear departed is placed so that relatives can view it and pay their last respects, before the day of the funeral.
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BUCKLEY, Ches. DUNN, Ireland & Lancs. EDGSON, Rutland, Leics & Lancs. LYON, Lancs. McNULTY, Ireland & Lancs. MORRIS, Beds, Hunts & Lancs. TURNER, Lancs. WILLIAMSON, Lancs. Website: http://www.ag19pfalz36.plus.com/All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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pritch19
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About ten miles north of Newport (Gwent), between the towns of Abercarn and Newbridge there is actually a very small hamlet called Chapel of Ease. I've often wonderd about the name, I can see now from the answers it must have been a dependent chapel or church of the parish Church at Mynyddislwyn.
Good question Anne and good answers too. I'm always learning something new on Rootschat.
pritch
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Hackstaple
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All the answers are right on the mark. It only remains to say that some parishes were quite large when most people walked and a few rode on rough roads. The parish would maintain one or two chapels of ease where services would be celebrated on certain Sundays and where banns could be published. I have not come across any where a graveyard was established but logic tells me that in certain circumstances the original church may have been superseded by another in a centre of growing population as in the Industrial Revolution. Then the old church, with its original graveyard, would become a chapel of ease. 
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Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa and Riley from St. Helena. Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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