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No !...it's not a joke. Can some kind person please explain the differences ?
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That's a good link by Val. This may also help.
Phil
historyhouse.co.uk
Essex - family and local history.Comment
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To Val & Phil, thank you. Those are to very helpful links.Comment
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They are, indeed, useful.
My father was a Rector, but I'd never found anything very definitive to be certain of the distinctions.
ChristineResearching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...Comment
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And there are also Rural Deans, who often look after urban parishes!Uncle John - Passed away March 2020Comment
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But Rural Deans are also a vicar, rector or priest-in-charge as well! No-one's mentioned the priest-in-charge yet, which seems to be getting more common.
AnneComment
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Vicars live in vicarages and rectors in rectories. Then there are manses and parsonages.....~ with love from Little Nell~Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & SmoothyComment
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I have innumerable Scottish clergy in my tree, so I have about 20 manses listed as census addresses.Uncle John - Passed away March 2020Comment
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