Gc Kf!l& 942.51019 Aalp V.12 1379100 GENEALOGY COLLECTION ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 833 00727 4324 General Editor ... ... T, M. Blagg, F.S.A. DERBYSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS, XII. phili.imork's parish register series. vol. ccvi. (pekbvskire, vol. xil). One hundred and fifty printed. : Derbyshire Parish Registers General Editor : THOS. M. BLAGG, F.S.A. VOL. XII. Edited by W. BRAYLESFORD BUNTING AND Ll. LLOYD SIMPSON. ft c^ t fj ILonlron Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., Ltd., 124, Chancery Lane. 1914. PREFACE. So many parishes in S.E. Derbyshire have been dealt with in this Series that it was hoped and intended that the present volume would be devoted entirely to the High Peak district and would contain a compact group of adjacent parishes, an arrangement which always brings out in a peculiar degree the value of this method of printing the complete Marriage Registers of a whole district. Unfortunately it was not found possible to obtain sufficient MS. from the High Peak without delaying indefinitely the issue of the volume, already overdue. The latter third of the book, therefore, has been filled with the important Register of Repton, the MS. of which had been ready for some time. The Repton abstracts were made by Mr. Simpson and Mr. E. B. Smith ; those of Chapel-en-le-Frith, which contain so many entries of old-established Peak families as to be of exceptional interest to genealogists, were done by of Fairfield Mr. W. Braylesford Bunting ,; and those and Buxton are kindly supplied by Mr. John Brandreth and Mr. G. D. Goodman respectively. JL3T9J_00 The thanks of the Subscribers must be accorded to the incumbents of all the parishes for kindly giving permission to print these abstracts. It should be remembered that previous to 1752 the year was calculated as beginning on the 25th of March, instead of the I St of January, so that a marriage taking place on say 2oth February, 1625, would be on that date in 1626 according to our reckoning ; but as the civil and ecclesiastical year were both used, this is sometimes expressed by 20th Feb., 162 1. In all cases where the marriage is stated to have taken place by Licence, that fact is recorded, as the searcher thereby knows that further information as to the age, parentage and vocation of the parties is probably recoverable from the Allegations in the Archdeaconry or other office from which the Licence issued. After 1753 it is to be assumed that all parties not other- wise described are stated to be of the home parish, and bachelor and spinster respectively. It might be well to remind the reader that these printed abstracts of the Registers are not legal "evidence." For certificates application must be made to the local clergy. T. M. B. W. B. B. Ll. Ll. S. 124, Chancery Lafie, London, May, 1 9 14. Contents. Parish. Years. Chapel-en-le-Frith Fairfield ^!:>^.t.\^u^^ f^ [y. O '" ... Buxton ( -..J Repton Derb^ebtre lpari6b IRcgtstcre* Marriages at Chapel«en=le=Frith, 1621 to 1837. Note.—The earliest existing Register at the Parish Church of Chapel- en-le-Frith commences 3rd Dec, 1620. There is no trace or sign of any earUer one. Volume I. is strongly bound in leather boards, the backs being off and now tied to the book with string. It is in fair con- dition, though the edges are worn and the leaves stained by damp and age and rather brittle, but, with a few exceptions at the bottoms and lower corners, the writing is legible. The leaves measure iijin. by 7 Jin., and the volume contains, in addition to three leaves of rough paper at the front and the like at the back, 220 leaves of strong, thick paper. The Register proper is contained on 198 leaves, the remainder being occupied by lists of the " officers of the Parish both for the Church and Iving " for the period covered by the Register, and by particulars of collections made on Briefs. At the foot of many pages of the Register appear the names of the minister, churchwardens, and parish clerk. " The Register is headed Registrum seu liber Registrarm occurrentum omninum in parochiali Ecclesia Capella in le Frith ab anno incarnationis 1620. Guil. Bray tunc temporis ibidem curato." The first entry is on 3rd Dec, 1620 ; the last on 15th Nov., 1698, and there are about 2,639 Baptisms, 2,982 Burials, and 295 Marriages. One leaf is mutilated, a portion at the bottom which would contain about three entries having been apparently cut out, thus creating gaps between 6th June and loth August and between 31st October and 5th November, 1680. A blank page follows an entry on i6th June, 1697, the entry at the top of the next page being dated 5th September. This may have been intended to be filled up later and never completed. Two instances are noted (30th Sep., 1652 and 4th Nov., 1662) where a marriage is entered out of its proper place and at the top Derbyshire—XII. b Derbyshire Parish Registers. of a page the remainder of which contains a record of the issue of these marriages, names of god-parents, etc. From other evi- dence there is no doubt that these entries of marriage are in the handwriting of Mr. Thomas Bowden, of Bowden Hall, with whom in each case the parties were connected. In several cases there are records of, apparently, the same parties being re-married at intervals of some weeks, but no ex- planations occur in the Register. There are a few notes by the churchwardens as to allotments of seats, etc., and from time to time records of copies of the Register and delivery of same to the Archdeacon. ist June, 1647 to 19th Oct., 1648 is in Latin, in a cramped hand, probably that of the minister, Rev. Robt. Gee ; March, i65|- to Oct., 1636 is badly and loosely written ; June, 1664 to August, 1683 in straggling and untidy hand or hands ; Oct., 1687 to March, 169J is in several hands and carelessly kept. The first page is in Latin in the same good hand as the inscription at the head of the Register. April, 1693 to the end is in Latin. The rest of the Register is in fairly good order. Volume IL commences loth November, 1696 and ends 14th May, 1745. An interpolated note on page i, in a dark ink and " modern hand, states : The entries in this Regr. from Nov., 1696 to July, 1697 are copies (as it appears) from the Regr. No. i, or are rather translations." See note to Volume I. The book is stoutly bound in leather, the back being rather loose, many of the first 35 leaves being nearly loose, and some quite so leaves at the are also loose. Some of the leaves ; 5 end are more or less worn at the edges, and in the middle of the book the ink is a good deal faded, as if by damp. On the whole it is not in such good condition as Volume I. The Register contains 176 leaves (each 11 fin. by 8in.) and 352 pages. Page 100 is blank, and so are even numbers to 250, also 260, 262, 268 to 276 even numbers. No Marriages are en- tered in these pages, but there are occasional notes as to burial in woollen, etc. and some few entries of Baptisms and Burials. Leaf No. 61 has evidently come loose and has been pasted backwards way, the order of the pages being reversed. On pp. 79-101 is a copy of a Conveyance, dated 22nd July, 1719, from Thomas Bagshaw, of Bakewell, esq., to the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty of Lands in the parish of Chapel-en-le-Frith for the aug- mentation of the Benefice. All entries are legible, but the entries in some parts of the latter half of the Register are rather carelessly made. Volume III. contains Marriage entries from 7th January, 1746 to 12th March, 1754. The book is in good order, but badly kept, and almost undecipherable in some places. 2 Chapel-en-le-Frith Marriages. 3 No. I Marriage Register.—This book is labelled on the " back No. i Marriage Reg. from 1754 to 1783." It is well bound in leather and is in good preservation except that the back has been patched. The leaves measure iG^in. by ii-|-in. It is an official book with the printed title " Register of Banns and Mar- riages . pursuant to the form prescribed by an Act of Parlia- ment passed in the 26th year of King George II.," etc. The title and one or two other pages are loose. The book contains 50 leaves or 100 pages of printed Marriage Register forms, four to a page, and the same number of leaves and pages of Banns five to a page. Following the last page of the Marriage Register a sheet of thin blue paper has been inserted, on which is pasted a written form as to the marriage of James Carrington and Elizabeth Hallam, duly signed b}' the parties, minister, and witnesses. This is sub- sequent in date to the last entrj' in the Register proper. The Book thus contains 401 entries : the first on 14th May, 1754, numbered i, the last on 12th January, 1793, numbered 399. The first page is numbered i, the last 105. The numeration of the pages and entries of marriages has been rather careless. Page 13 is followed by page 19 (both on the same leaf) ; in the entries the numbers pass from 90 to 100 ; after 157, 148 to 157 inclusive are repeated ; 167 occurs twice ; 233 also occurs twice, and 234 is omitted.