Talk:Sexton (office)

verger
Text deleted in stubifying is already in the verger article. Andrewa 04:28, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

What to do with this article
Is anyone aware of the question mentioned at Talk:Sexton (artillery) about where this page should be?? 66.32.251.152 22:34, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

Sexton as a public servant
The person in charge of the public (non-church) cemetery where I plan to be buried also has the title of "sexton". Can we add emphasis to the definition be one unaffiliated with a church or synagogue? More people are buried outside the churchyards than in them nowadays. --2600:6C48:7006:200:D84D:5A80:173:901D (talk) 22:47, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Wiktionary message
Check this article. Does it need a Wiktionary message?? 66.245.28.124 23:22, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Holocron?
Just looking at the history page here, not sure what Holocron means by "what's the problem?".

Didn't mean to do anything wrong! Hope everything's OK - sorry for the re-edits - I can't really get a feel for what it'll look like without viewing the live page!

I feel like a dumb @$$! I didn't bother to read the first sentence in the artical. I thought Sexton was some new form of church (like catholic, or protestant, or Lutheran). I just dicovered this myself, when you have changed something in an artical, instead of clicking save page, click "show preveiw". Good work on the artical, BTW.--Holocron 17:07, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip - that's good to know!

I don't know what it is, but there is something wrong. When I looked at your edits it says they were done on October 19, 2004. Are you having trouble with a certain vandal? I can take care of him for you if you are.--Holocron 18:26, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Once again I feel like a dumb @$$. I was looking at the wrong person.--Holocron 18:46, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

No worries, dude! I made quite a few blunders myself yesterday! I think it's the weather! Brianlacey 19:37, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Revisions
Let me start by saying specifically to Neutrality that I'm in no way interested in wheel warring! However, I have a significant problem with his revisions. No harm to non-Christians, but I don't think there's any need to change the description of a sexton as someone who maintains "churches" to "places of worship" as by definition a sexton is an official of ONLY a Christian Church. Supplementary to this, pointing out the jewish counterpart's title is like editing the article of Christian ministers to indicate that their jewish counterpart is called a Rabbi. I just don't think it adds anything useful to the article. But by all means, let's see a separate article written on the jewish version! 82.18.181.186 20:11, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

The origin of the name could be in a different article. However, I began to realize that those who typically bore the name Sexton, regardless of ethnicity, usually at some point in their ancestry, such as mine, did indeed have a family member who was employed as such. Furthermore, my ancestry and DNA is Jewish, of Haplotype E, of a jewish subclade. "Sexton", "Segrestein", "Sacristanus" as defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary and by the Oxford Dictionary does seem to point out, or acknowledge this Jewish heritage "-stein", which many would unintentionally blot out or run roughshod over without such knowledge of doing so. For instance, there are blacksmiths of various heritages, yet each ethnicity could have a distinct name for such a profession with the same meaning. Perhaps a Jewish version of both sexton (office) as well as Sexton (name origin) would be appropriate? Written: September the 26, 2009 or Tishrei the 8th, 5770.

Duties
"Report all complete with supervisors"? - what is that? I can't figure it out. Is there a word missing? Ramseyman (talk) 18:23, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Possible merge suggestion
I have never heard of a "beadle", but it seems to me that perhaps that article should be merged into this one, or that this one should be merged into that, with appropriate redirects created. Any thoughts? Tomertalk 08:39, 11 February 2008 (UTC)