What happened, was I had found a marriage by licence of a couple who married in a parish in another county, but both were from parishes and baptised in Yorkshire, on enquiring at York, they said under certain rules or conditions of some cases of these intent to marry by bond, they had to marry in the bonds mans parish of birth and they loaned me a book on the subject. It was in this book, it went on about the importance of the parish of birth and commitments to the welfare, legal responsibilities of that parish authority over their parishioners born there, that parish was responsible for that persons for life, then went into pages of legal jargon of the times, but it did refer that in legal concerns the parish of birth was the their parish put on records and their parish of residence as their address. It showed this more with the poor but it still covered all people born in that parish irrespective of status or wealth. I read the book, took back, it was about 15 years and forgot about till now, as we are looking for a ancestor on a RC member who appear in Selby Yorkshire 1812 as cooper by trade, married 1815 there, changed trades along with his cooper trade business also in businesses as straw hat maker (Wife), tanner, brewer, dealer of wines, booze, & grocer and died 1845 in Selby. but no record of his burial or his wife in 1879, in Selby. Anyway I remember this book and thought being a local businessman, there maybe some some legal documents and may give his parish of birth to find his origins. Hence my post enquiry.
