Church Fees, 1830
Recently, I've been doing a project on the Shire Family. Through migration some members of this family move into the village of Combe St. Nicholas in Somerset. So I went to the Somerset Heritage Centre and looked through the parish records for this time, to see what I could find out about them. However, when going through these records, I came across a page with the Church fees for services like marriages and burials. So I thought I would right them down and share them with you to get an insight to how much your ancestors would have had to have paid at the time.
Weddings
Burials
To Search the Registers
Obviously these fees would differ from parish to parish, but I find these quite interesting. It shows how much a burial would cost, an extra some families couldn't afford so they would have to rely on the church for a paupers burial.
Published: 1 October 2015
Weddings
- Banns of marriage - 5 Shillings
- Wedding after banns published - 2 Shillings and 6 Pence
- Wedding after licence granted - 1 Pound and 1 Shilling
Burials
- Making vault in the church - 20 Pounds
- Opening each time (vault) - 5 Pounds
- Putting tomb in churchyard - 5 Pounds
- Opening each time (tomb) - 1 Pound
- Simple brick grave - 1 Pound
- Opening each time (simple brick grave) - 10 Shillings and 6 Pence
- Flat stone - 1 Pound
- Head stone - 10 Shillings and 6 Pence
To Search the Registers
- Certified extract - 2 Shillings and 6 Pence
- Inspect - 1 Shilling
- Search 1 year - 1 Shilling
- Every subsequent year 6 Pence
Obviously these fees would differ from parish to parish, but I find these quite interesting. It shows how much a burial would cost, an extra some families couldn't afford so they would have to rely on the church for a paupers burial.
Published: 1 October 2015
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