A Pedraça call to Coimbra
In 1758, the parish priest's choice pointed out to the council.
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The parish memory describes the matrix dedicated to Santa Marinha and states that the rector was presented by the rector of the College of São Jerónimo de Coimbra. This historical link shows how a small parish was part of relations that surpassed the lands of Basto.
The same transcript places Pedraça at the end of Cabeceiras de Basto and in the district of Guimarães. It records 96 fires and 322 souls of communion, in addition to a congruity of 50 thousand réis for the rector. They are categories of the document: fires are not people, and souls of communion do not automatically equal the total inhabitants.
The numbers and connection to Coimbra show two plans of parish life: the community described and the organization that framed his parish priest. The municipal version identifies the transcription of José Viriato Chapel, published in 2003, from the Memórias of 1758.
The municipal page also distinguishes the account from the references that accompany it: it refers to the memory 296 of the volume 42 and lists an obligation to the Santa Bárbara hermitage factory, of 1624, and another linked to the Blessed Sacrament, of 1722. They are archive clues. The existence of these references does not mean that the full text of the two documents is reproduced on the page, nor transforms 1624 on a date of construction of the chapel.
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The name of the land in an older record
The spelling Pedraces opens the investigation of a record prior to the Parish Memories.
Pedraça already had another name written →Another parish and another count
It compares counting categories and avoids adding fires as if they were people.
How was a parish counted? →The houses in another presentation of the heritage
The buildings enter another presentation, with names and descriptions that do not all have the same date.
Pedraça is also counted by houses →
Source and context
Municipality — Parish Memories of Pedraça (1758), transcript of José Viriato Chapel (2003)
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Municipality — Parish Memories of Pedraça, 1758; transcription of José Viriato Chapel (2003)
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Editorial summary; the date of consultation is not the date of the facts.