ABSTRACT
The variations in genealogical practice that grew from the social, economic and racial differences are not particularly surprising. Dade recorded extra information and encouraged similar practices among vicars of surrounding parishes in western Yorkshire and eastern Lancashire. Barrmgton Registers and Dade Registers – as they are commonly called –began in the latter quarter of the eighteenth century, and most of them ended in 1812 with the passage of Rose's Act which required parish registers be kept in pre-printed books. William Markham, archbishop of York, approved of Dade's innovations and in 1777 required the Diocese of York to use Dade's registers. Both samples here – from Chester-le-Street, Durham in 1798 and Ashton-in-Makerfield in 1810 – show a preoccupation with birth order, men's occupations, grandparents and places of nativity.
