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I'm doing some long-term research for this, but I'd like to find out if I'm even on the right track.
The plan is for a story set in a fictional market town in Yorkshire circa 1850, fairly close to the moors.
More than a generation past, a successful naval Captain (who'd made a fortune with prize money) purchased the local manor and its lands, essentially becoming the local squire. The baronet from whom he purchased the manor had a daughter, whom he married. Her family has a rather bad legend associated with them, involving a knight who was said to have sold his soul to the Devil during the English Civil War.
Anyway, this concerns the Captain's sons (or maybe grandsons). I've read the local Rector in this period were often the younger brother of the local Squire. Some questions:
The plan is for a story set in a fictional market town in Yorkshire circa 1850, fairly close to the moors.
More than a generation past, a successful naval Captain (who'd made a fortune with prize money) purchased the local manor and its lands, essentially becoming the local squire. The baronet from whom he purchased the manor had a daughter, whom he married. Her family has a rather bad legend associated with them, involving a knight who was said to have sold his soul to the Devil during the English Civil War.
Anyway, this concerns the Captain's sons (or maybe grandsons). I've read the local Rector in this period were often the younger brother of the local Squire. Some questions:
- How young realistically could this Rector be? Around thirty or so? Younger?
- Might this younger brother have some other position in the local Church? If so, what?
- What are the rules about such a priest getting married?
