Communal Records The communal records are purely civil. Birth, marriage and death registers start in 1870. There are also the reports of the regional council, the law bulletin, the mayor diaries, the cadrastal map. Private files The district matters are handled in the following notaries: Vebret, Antignac, Neuvialle, Menet, very few in Saignes. Documentation need therefore to be carried out at each office. Our personal research showed that these miscellanenous files contain nothing interesting on the religious history of the parish. In the private houses, we found nothing, either parchments or papers. However we were fortunate enough to discover an old register of the justice of Murat la Rabbe but this register contains only procedure notes of a minor interest. We will however have the opportunity to reproduce one of them later on in this monograph. It is registered in the parochial archives. Origin of the Parish We do not know when the Gospel was first spread in the parish and its surroundings. There is no trace of the first passage of missionaries. No legend therefore exists on this matter. Before 1790, the parish belonged to the Vignonnets, today Antignac, it was thus probably the diocese of Rochefort and the diocese of Clermont. The parish is currently attached to the district that bears its name. Both include this portion of territory formerly called Muradès. Etymology
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