Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
parish clerk
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The parish clerk was asked to report the matter to the area surveyor.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parish clerk
Parish \Par"ish\, a. Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor. --Dryden. Parish clerk.
The clerk or recording officer of a parish.
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A layman who leads in the responses and otherwise assists in the service of the Church of England.
Parish court, in Louisiana, a court in each parish.
Usage examples of "parish clerk".
All the men and maids of the house, the old women of the Alms House, whom the elder Sir Pitt had cheated out of a great portion of their due, the Parish Clerk’.
Whereupon it was given in to the parish clerk, and he also returned them to the Hall.