Local parish registers recorded baptisms, marriages and deaths from 1654 and in 1658 there were two pastors.

I continued to record baptisms, deaths, marriages, and confirmations in the parish register.

No doubt the small size of the community led to the practice of recording baptisms, marriages and burials in a single volume.

No baptism, no family Bible recording the births, deaths and marriages.

A patroonship had its own village and other infrastructure, including churches (which recorded births, baptisms, and marriages).

The monastery has an archive which dates back to the year 1600, which mostly records baptisms, confirmations, marriages and deaths of the local population.

The Yearbook recorded births, deaths, marriages, land-sales, and other events in Took history.

Most clerics will perform such marriages inside a church, arguing that they are doing so in their civil capacity as registrars, who record marriages.