Daily AncestorChapel of ease
A chapel of ease was a second church building within a parish, built so parishioners living far from the main church had a closer place to worship.
A chapel of ease was built to be more accessible to some parishioners than the main church, and it was served by the parish's own clergy rather than being a separate parish.
Baptisms or marriages at a chapel of ease may be entered in the register of the main parish church. A note such as at the upper chapel can help you place a family at one end of a large parish.
As seen in a recordAnglican parish register, colonial Virginia, 1700s
Married at the Upper Chapel, Jno. Rowe & Lucy Dix
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