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 | | This matter was resolved by considering the facts of life and realising that not everyone was christened, not everyone one confirmed, not everyone was married in their parish church, but - every single person has the inescapable fact of death and that was a vicars main stay of income at the time. |
 | | So the then vicar of Easton relinquished all rites except that of burial to the new vicar of Pill, that is within his new boundaries, except burial rites. |
 | | Therefore from 1861 onwards, indeed for over one hundred years, you could be born in Pill, christened in the church at Pill, married in the church at Pill, live all your life in the ecclesiastical parish of Pill, die in Pill, but you had to go to the civil parish of Easton-in-Gordano to be buried. |
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