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The parish register became mandatory in Italy for baptisms and marriages in 1563 after the Council of Trent and in 1614 for burials when its rules of compilation were as well normalised by the Church. Prior to 1563, the oldest registers of baptisms are preserved since 1379 in Gemona del Friuli, 1381 in Siena, 1428 in Florence or 1459 in Bologna.
John Coney was the apprentice of and later brother-in-law to Jeremiah Dummer, the first American-born silversmith. He married Mary Atwater, sister of Dummer's wife, in 1694. They were widower and widow, Coney had been married twice before. He had twelve children in total, but only five daughters survived beyond infancy. [4]
The Stamp Duties Act 1783 (23 Geo. 3.c. 67) was passed by the House of Commons of Great Britain in order to raise money to pay for the American War of Independence.Under the provisions of this act, all baptism, marriage and burial entries in each parish register were subject to a tax of 3d (old pence).
1655 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1655th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 655th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 17th century, and the 6th year of the 1650s decade. As of the start of 1655, the ...
John Goodwin (1594–1665) was an ... (1653) and Cata-Baptism (1655) were polemics against baptists. ... 1665. By his early marriage he had seven children, two of ...
Sir John St Barbe, 1st Baronet (c. 1655 – 7 September 1723), of Ashington, Somerset and Broadlands, Hampshire, was Member of Parliament for Ilchester in 1681. [2] He was created a baronet on 30 December 1662 at the age of 7.
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The king himself obtained for him the hand of Elizabeth, daughter of John Colepeper, 1st Baron Colepeper, [2] one of the maids of honour to Mary, the Princess Royal. [43] As the bride was a Protestant, Hamilton changed religion just before the marriage, which took place in 1661. [43] His mother, a devout Catholic, had in vain tried to dissuade ...