The utility of making copies of ancient registers has recently been shown in the Shipway pedigree case, in which numerous register forgeries were perpetrated. Registers are not so likely to be tampered with when a printed copy is in existence.
The entries as before have been reduced to a common form, and the following abbreviations adopted :—
w.—widower or widow.
s.—spinster, single woman,
or son.
b.—bachelor or single
man.
d.—daughter of.
p.=of the parish of.
dioc.—in the diocese of.
co.=in the county of.
la...marriage licence.
The spelling of the surnames is in all cases the same as in the original registers, but the Christian names have in most cases been translated or modernized. It must be remembered that these printed abstracts of marriage registers are not " evidence " in the technical sense.