Old Parish Registers or Old Parochial Records (OPRs)
Records kept by individual parishes listing the baptisms, marriages, deaths and sometimes funerals of the individual parishioners within the congregation.
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A shroud or covering positioned over the coffin (or the body if funds were not available for a coffin).
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Scottish local church records documenting the administration of the congregation
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The selling off of the deceased’s property for the purpose of paying funeral expenses.
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A “round-the-clock” watch of the deceased’s body until burial. Done to keep the spirit of the departed safe from the devil until they were buried.
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