942.51019 M. L; Aalp v.4 1379092 GENEALOGY COLLECTION ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 00727 4241 DERBYSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. flDarriagea, IV. phiiximore's parish register series. vol. xc. (derbyshire, vol. iv.) One hundred and fifty only printed. I0.ip.cj : Derbyshire Parish Registers, flftat triages. Edited by W. P. W. PHILLIMORE, M.A., B.C.L., AND LL. LL. SIMPSON. £,c VOL. IV. ILon&on Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane. 1908. — PREFACE. As promised in the last volume of the Marriage Registers of Derbyshire, the marriage records of St. Alkmund's form the first instalment of the Registers of the County Town. The Editors do not doubt that these will prove especially interesting to Derbyshire people. In Volume V they hope to print further instalments of town registers in the shape of those of St. Michael's and also some village registers. It will be noticed that St. Alkmund's register begins at the earliest possible date, 1538, but of the remainder, two do not start till the seventeenth century and one, that of Quarndon, synchronizes with the passing of Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act. 1379092 It will be convenient to give here a list of the Derby- shire parishes of which the Registers have been printed in this series: Volume I. Volume II. Dale Abbey Boulton Brailsford Duffield Stanton-by-Dale Hezthalias Lownd Volume III. Stanley or Lund Duffield Spondon Breaston Church Broughton Mellor Kirk Ireton Sandiacre Hault Hucknall Volume IV. Risley Mackworth Derby— St. Alkmund's Ockbrook Allestree Quarndon Tickenhall Foremark It has not been thought needful to print the entries — verbatim. They are reduced to a common form and the following contractions have been freely used : w.=widower or widow. p.=of the parish of. s.=spinster, single woman, or co.=in the county of. son of. b.=bachelor or single man. dioc.=in the diocese of. d.=daughter of. //'c.=marriage licence. All these extracts have been made by Mr. LI. LI. Simpson. Thanks are due to the parish clergy for per- mission to print these extracts. It may 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. The Editors will gladly welcome help in the work of transcribing the registers. It is only by volunteer assistance that it becomes feasible to issue this series of parish registers. W.P.W.P. Ll.Ll.S. 124, Chancery Lane, June, 1908. ©erbpsbire parish IRegisters. Marriages at St, Alkmund's, Derby, 1538 to 1812. Note.—Vol. I. This is one of the most interesting of the Derby Registers ; as well for the excellent condition in which it is found to be from end to end as for the beauty of the caligraphy and the orderly arrangement, of which the earliest part is especially notable. It has been rebound and recut at edges, consequently here and there some of the writing has been clipped. It contains 166 pages of vellum of varying quality. In size, it is 6J by 17 inches. From the commencement until the 22 Sept. 1612, it is in Latin ; after that in English. On the first page sundry parish clerks have written their names and dates of their going into office. There are also three inscriptions of some length ; which have been so industriously scribbled over as to be indecipherable. One at the bottom of the page remains, and is interesting now. " In the year of our Lord, 1538, in the 30th year of the Reign of K. Henry 8th, in the month of September, Thomas Cromwell, Lord privy seal, Vicegerent to the King's Highness, sent his Injunction to the Bishops and Curats through the Realme, charging them to see that in every Parish Church the Bible of the Largest volume printed in English shruld be placed for all men to read on. And that a book of Register should be also provided and kept in every Psh Church, wherein should be written every Wedding, Christening, and Burying within the same Pish : for ever, in obedience . [part of last line clipped away] . that book was ." provided— 9 Nov. 15 . On the second page a neatly written copy of the : " Capitalum siue Constitutio Ecclesiastica, per Archiepis copum Episcopos et reliquum clceri et de Registris in Ecclesijs saluse custodias— comittendis." This is followed by the document which ends thus : " Descriptum erat hoc registerum, per Thomam Swetnamum ministrum hujus Eclesiae sancti Alkmundi, Derbia, iuxta vetus exemp- lar- : Elia Bradshawe, et Roberto Sleigh, guardianis, Ano. Di., 1598. Sit Deo gloria, Laus, et honor, Amen." On the margin above this is written: "Ano. Di., 1597, Oct. 15, Ao. Regni Elizabeth, 39." At the head of the third page there is a well executed title in Church text ornamented by the usual elaborate network— flourishes of the period and a large rose. It reads as follows : " Liber memorialis Derbyshire—IV, b Derbyshire Parish Registers. siue registerium continens omnia nomina et cognomina conjugatorum baptizatorum et sepultorum in parochia Sancti Alkmundi, Derbia, a nono die Novemb., Anno Dni., millessimo quingentessimo tricessimo octavo ad finem huius libri et sequitur." The Register begins with a marriage 3 Dec. 1538, which was the date of the old book from which the first part of the present book was copied in the 39th Elizabeth (1597), Births, Marriages, and Deaths being mixed. There are a number of records of curious events interspersed through the book, very interesting, but too long to be quoted in these notes. The Triennial Visitations are regularly noted, the changes of the curates, remarks on the characters and ages of some of the departed, singular births, copies of dispensations for eating flesh- meats instead of fish, in 9th year of Charles I., of these there are three. Also the deaths of the reigning sovereigns are recorded, with the exception of the murder of King Charles I., and the pages put into mourning for them. The risitation of the Plague, " Hie incipit pestis pestifera." The names are written in red ink from its commencement on 2 Feb., 1592, until it ceased on the 4th Oct. of that year, 91 persons dying of it. The Plague returned in 1637, when nine persons died of it. Richard Boothouse records the follow- ing : Isaac Solden, clerke, came to Derby on Saturday, the 14th day of August, Ano. Dni., 1658, and by mutual consent was elected and chosen Minister of the Parish Churches of St. Alkmund's and St. Michael's in Derby. Then there are seven lines of cipher, and as there is no code, what it means remains a mystery. There are numerous other odd things, but they are scarcely suitable for this volume. Vol. II. This volume is very similar to the last. It contains 212 pages of vellum, the last three pages being blank with the exception of two entries. The size is 17 ins. by 7£ ins., and the binding, full smooth dark brown calf, is rather dilapidated. The entries are mixed, and the register is well kept. The Marriages are entered to the end of the volume (Dec, 1797), although the usual Marriage Register was commenced in 1754, from which all extracts are made from that date. Vol. III. This has evidently been two registes bound together, the cover is of thick boards backed with a piece of rough brown calf and the sides covered with marble paper. The first part of the register is the usual printed marriage form on parchment, size 15 ins. by 9£ ins., containing 48 pages, and 195 entries, three being on the end paper page. The second part is of plain parchment and the certificates are all in writing. The size of this is I3§ ins. by 9 ins., and contains 102 pages (the first two being blank) and 326 entries. The writing throughout is fairly good, but many of the pages are much stained. Vols. IV., V., and VI. These registers are uniformly of the same size, 13 ins. by 9 ins., and binding full brown rough calf. The certificates are all written on vellum, and not on the usual I I -5/. AlkmntuVs Marriages. 55 ] 3 printed form. The writing throughout is moderately good, though faint in places where the vellum is discoloured. Vol. IV. contains certificates, 120 pages with 362 certificates ; V. 118 pages and 471 VI. 130 pages (only 49 used), with 164 certificates to end of 1812, and a further 22 for 1813. These Marriages are extracted by Messrs. L. Lloyd Simpson and George Bailey, assisted by Mr. Ernest B. Smith, of Derby, and are printed by permission of the Rev. A. E. Hunt, M.A., vicar of St. Alkmund's, Derby. Volume I. [This book really dates from the year 1598, 40-41 of Elizabeth, being but a copy of the old register.] Edward Cleaton [Clayton ?] & Beatrice Pliley [?] 2 Nov. John Freeman & Elizabeth Mansfield Henry Bagshaw & Margaret Withal Roger Hadenboroughe & Elizabeth Topples Thomas Griffin & Isabell Posties ... Robert Conningham & Johanna Parker John Oldershawe & Elizabeth Atkin Henry Osburne & Dorothy Sacheverell John Parkhall & Ayme Salforth ... [The entries for 1543 to 1547 omitted here are inserted nine pages irregularity in note.] below ; a Mr. Moore is accused of this a John Scattergood & Mary Lister ... Thomas Draper [?] & Margery Leuton John Freeman & Mary Linney Richard Pereson & Margaret Kirkland John Dawson & Hellena Orme Michsell Aston & Alice Sanford Christopher Kendale & Cicely Orme Roger Berisford & Joan [Johanna] Robinson William Biggin & Jone Fui-of-Love [sic] Thomas Hudson & Agues Sergeant Nicholas Wilgoose & Elizabeth Martin Thomas Robinson & Alice Smith ... Robert Browne & Cicely Thickens William Harison & Agnes Clarke Robert Brigge & Alice Gillot John Potter & Johanna Smith Ralph Slighe & Elizabeth White ..