8. I then drew up lists of vicars, transcripts of miscellaneous records of
events, and other casual entries that appeared in the register.[1]
I noted, as I went on, the time occupied in each of these operations. It
was as follows:--
1. The first transcripts on slips, with addition of statistical tables--
Baptisms 2004
Marriages, 420, each twice 840
Burials 1244
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Total 4088 ... 551/2 hours.
2. Collecting and filing alphabetically 23 ----
3. Sorting in strict alphabetical order 131/4 ----
4. Transcribing into book 911/2 ----
5. Copying statistical tables into book 5 ----
Transcripts of miscellaneous entries,
lists of vicars, &c. &c. 7 ----
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Total 1951/4 hours.
My registers begin in the year 1558, and the present population of the
parish is about 420, so that you have here an account of the labour
necessary to complete an alphabetical transcript of the register of a rural
parish of that extent in population.
I send you the result as a first step to a work of great national
importance, and of inestimable value with relation to family descent, title
to property long in abeyance, &c.
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