Parish chest
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parish-chest-201-3323811
title:
Parish chest
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In England and Wales, a parish chest is a wooden chest which was used for the storage of important documents relating to a parish, these would typically include the parish register of births, deaths and marriages, and other documents relating to the administration of the parish. A parish chest would usually be kept in the parish church. Parish chests were used from medieval times, and early ones were usually simple, constructed from a hollowed out log. In later centuries, parish chests generally
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parish_chest
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2024-03-14T20:17:53Z
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