It's the Church Price List! The cost of baptisms, marriages, burials and churchings - and it answered one question I've had on my mind. I'd noticed that a lot of events seem to have occurred on Sundays in the past; this is quite unusual in modern times, so I wondered about that - from the is price list it seems that maybe there was a discount on Sundays for some events!
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| Donington Baptisms From: Lincstothepast. |
No charge for baptisms on Sunday but the Parish Clerk expects 6d a child on a week day.For those who don't understand those strange prices, this is pre-decimalisation. Decimalisation of UK currency occurred in February 1971 when we moved from 12 pennies to the shilling, 20 shillings to the pound, to a decimal system.
Certificates of Baptism and Marriage and Burial 2s 6d
Stamp 1d
Search for every year after the one specified 6d
Churchings. In the appointed year 6d
In private view 1s 0d or more
12d = 1s. Twelve pennies = 1 shilling.
20s = £1. Twenty shillings = £1.
To convert these pre-decimal prices to modern prices, I've made a little list for you:
- 1d = said as "one penny", after decimalisation it was called "one old penny". This is 1/240th of £1 and therefore has to have the lowest possible value in modern currency. Initially set to be worth ½p in new decimal currency (£0.005), the half-penny has been withdrawn from modern UK currency.
- 1s = said as "one shilling". This is 1/20th of £1. It is 5p in modern currency (£0.05)
- 2s = said as "two shillings". This is 1/10th of £1. It is 10p in modern currency. (£0.10)
- 6d = said as "sixpence", it's six old pennies. This is 1/40th of £1. It is 2½p in modern currency (£0.025)
- If something is shown as, say, 2/6, or 2/6d, it is read as "two and six", meaning "two shillings and sixpence" (which, by the way, is 1/8th of £1 and 12½p, £0.125)
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