Catholic Parish Registers - Sick Call Register

Two registers of sick calls survive. These record the visitations of a priest to a sick person. It could provide an indication of a death following on from the visit (although the parishioner might well have recovered!).

The information contained in the original registers can be quite minimal, and varies from parish to parish and indeed over time within each parish. At best, a sent rent register will record the following:

• name of the individual
• date
• address
• name of a priest

Example of a sick call register (click on image to view the full size)

Glasgow, St Andrew’s: Sick Call Register, 1827 MP/62/1/7/1, page 36