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Reference:: D/P 122/1/6
Title:: Burial register
Level: Category: Parish Records
Level: Fonds: LITTLE SAMPFORD, St Mary the Virgin
Level: Sub-Fonds: INCUMBENT
Level: Series: Service of Church: Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials
Scope and Content:: At front: cutting from Church Assembly News, July 1927 (pp. 125, 126) summarizing effect on burial procedure of Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926, which required the delivery before burial - including stillbirths - of a registrar's certificate for disposal or a coroner's order for burial, and subsequent notification to registrar.
Dates of Creation:: 1821-1967
Extent:: 1 volume
Custodial History:: Deposited in the Essex Record Office in April 1985, but 'many years ago the safe in [the] church had been carried away and some of the records were recovered from a ditch in a very damaged condition ...' (letter from PCC Secretary, 6 July 1987). These events probably occurred soon after the final entry made in 1967.
Physical Characteristics:: Damaged by damp and mould; some entries are partly or wholly illegible. A microfiche copy was made in 1991, and the register was subsequently repaired and re-bound.