That's My Boy!!!

[Wiggy]

It is a great piece of writing

...and a lovely piece for a descendant to find

 

Agree Claire . . .  wish I were a descendant of that lot!!   

[BumbleB]

Not in quite the same light, but there was a Vicar here in Tamworth (Staffordshire) who added his views on what had been happening in the world during the year to the parish records.  Revd. Francis Blick was in office from 1796 to 1811, but there are also entries for 1793 and 1795 - when an earthquake was very sensibly felt at Tamworth. 

[Wiggy]

Possibly easier to read.   

Not really was it   - deleted!!       

Fascinating bit of history isn't it -   just the fact that he bothered to record parts of the Peninsular war and was alive and recording at the time of the Regent taking over the reins.

[3sillydogs]

That's a real proud dad...

Great to find things like that as said, it adds flesh to the bones that we find...

[stanmapstone]

And Dad holding the post for 37 years . . . that's a heck of a long time in one parish.   

He was a Perpetual Curate.
Perpetual Curate. A priest nominated by a lay rector to serve a parish where there was no regular endowed vicarage. As the name suggests, perpetual curates were appointed in perpetuity and once licensed by a bishop could not be removed. "The English Parish Church" by Stephen Friar.

Stan

[Wiggy]

Yes I read that . . .  Thanks for that snip Stan. 

It is still a long time to be have one minister in the parish - however I do realise they did things differently then!   

His son kept much clearer records!!   

[stanmapstone]

Perpetual Curates were still around up to 1968.
Previously to the Pastoral Measure 1968, there was a third class of benefice called a perpetual curacy, which arose where the incumbent was neither a rector , nor was an endowment provided out of the income of the rectory for his maintenance;  the benefices of new ecclesiastical parishes were as a rule perpetual curacies. But the Measure converted all perpetual curacies into vicarages.
"A Handbook for Churchwardens and Parochial Church Councillors"

Stan

[Wiggy]

1968!!   That is very recent isn't it!      I don't think we have anything like that set-up here.

Thanks Stan.    Learn something every day on RC.     

[mazi]

"Learn something every day on rootschat"

How true, I now know that Bilston, where he resigned from, is actually a chapelry of St Peters Collegiate church Wolverhampton, which was then a royal peculiar, I wonder where Darlaston comes into it.

Mike