I'm going through 18th century parish records for the local church, which is an extraparochial place. This church was owned by the local bigwigs, the Pegge Burnells. On a couple of baptism records it says, "By permission of Peter Pegge Burnell" -- who would have been the owner of the church at the time. The annotations only appear by the name of one particular family who I believe lived in a village about a mile away which did not have its own church but fell within a different parish. However I know there were other families using the local church and living in the same village but whose baptisms are not annotated in this way.
So my questions are - has anyone else come across this sort of annotation? And why would someone need permission to have their child baptised in their local church?
