While writing the chapter on parish registers for my book Tracing Your Georgian Ancestors 1714-1837, I became aware of how little was known about the origins of the ‘extended parish registers’ introduced in some dioceses and parishes from the 1760s onwards, such as Dade and Barrington registers in the dioceses of York and Durham respectively, most of which were discontinued in 1813 when printed Rose registers were introduced. I therefore decided to investigate this topic further myself, presenting the results of my research in an IHGS Licentiateship dissertation submitted in 2019. I continue to investigate other aspects of the history of parish registers that have received little attention from genealogists, archivists or historians.

I have written a number of articles on parish registers, which have been published in the Genealogists' Magazine, and are listed below: