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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Lisajb on Friday 17 April 15 20:16 BST (UK)
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This is probably a really stupid question but what is a contiguous parish? ???
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Any parish which shares a boundary or border with the one in question.
So for example, the contiguous parishes of Seale in Surrey are:
Ash, Farnham, Elstead, Puttenham, Wanborough in Surrey, plus Aldershot in Hampshire
Nell
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Thank you Nell.
That's given me something to think about.
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If you are struggling to figure out which parishes are near each other take a look at genuki.
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This is probably a really stupid question but what is a contiguous parish? ???
There is no such thing as a stupid question, just a question to which we don't yet know the answer. By you asking it, hundreds of other people will also now know the answer. :)
Craclyns right - look at Genuki and also some areas on there have map diagrams of the parishes so you can really get a feel of how it all fits together And why your relative might have been buried / baptised somewhere you might never have thought of, simply because of a nearby parish. I had siblings baptised in 3 different parishes over time even though the parents lived in the same house all the time. It was VERY confusing.
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Also don't rule out the possibility that they may have been non-conformists and used an alternative to the local parish church.
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I've been searching for this woman for about 10 years; I have tracked her on the census from 1841 through to 1901. Of those, she gives Purton, Wiltshire as her birthplace 4 times, Gloucestershire once, Not Known appears once, and Codrington once. There is a woman by the same name in the 1841 census in Purton, with father, but this one cannot be my lady as the 1841 census was taken after she married.
I found a scribbled note in my files with a baptism in Brinkworth, which for some reason I didn't pursue back then (note to self: always check files!), found it on the Brinkworth OPC site, which gives Purton as a contiguous parish. Although quite how she would have met her husband and gotten to Old Sodbury in Gloucestershire to marry would still be a mystery. It's all made more difficult by the fact that there was a lazy vicar in Old Sodbury who didn't write down fathers names in the marriage register.