Section 2 of 6
Register
The document, its columns and what they were for.
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- 2.1In the same columnPrinted registers fix what gets recorded. Once a form has a column for occupation, occupation is recorded for everyone — and once it has none, that fact vanishes.
- 2.2Crosses instead of namesA mark rather than a signature, witnessed by somebody who could write. What the pattern of marks across a parish actually measures, and what it does not.
- 2.3The duplicate copyTwo copies kept in different buildings, for the obvious reason.
- 2.4Occupation, father, parishThe three details a register almost always wanted, and what each was checking.
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