• Date of baptism
• Date of birth (but this is often not recorded)
• Child's forename
• Child's surname (though normally omitted as father's name is assumed)
• Father's name — blank if illegitimate
• Mother's name (but this is often not recorded)
• Father's occupation or rank
• Place of birth (for large parishes)
• Examples:

1. Baptised 21 August 1632 William son of Francis Knaggs
2. Baptism 5 January 1783 Richard son of Thomas Knaggs, farmer, and his wife Mary, born 6 December 1782

Marriages

• Date of marriage
• For both man and woman
  • Forename and Surname
  • Whether bachelor or spinster, widower or widow
  • Age
  • Whether of-this-parish or of some other place
  • Occupation (normally man only)
  • Father's forename, surname and occupation or rank
  • Signature
• Whether by Banns or by Licence
• Witness(es) signature(s)
• Note: from 1837, the information contained in parish records is the same as that on a civil marriage certificate.
• Examples:

1. Married 2 May 1635 Francis Ducke and Anne Knaggs
2. Married 16 May 1643 Leonard Huntroids yeoman of Brafferton and Lucy Knaggs widow of this parish
3. [1643 Marriages] Alexander Mackree et Anna Hancocke undecimo die men(sis) Julii nupti fuerent Annoq(ue) predicto
4. Married 11 August 1836 Richard Knaggs the younger, age 20, bachelor, farmer of Kilham and Elizabeth Wilson, age 25, spinster of this parish, by licence and with the consent of those whose consent is required

Burials

• Date of burial
• Name of deceased
• Age of deceased
• Occupation, rank or relationship of deceased
• Normal place of abode of deceased