Gc 942.51019 Aalp V. 5 942.51019 '^. L. Aalp V.5 1379093 I QENEALOSV C=0U1.e:cT10N / ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBBAR| 3 1833 00727 4258 DERBYSHIRE I PARISH REGISTERS. V. HILLIMORES AKISH REGISTER SERIES. '01.. CII. (DERBYSHIRE, VOL. V.) One hundred and fifty only printed. ue.^. Derbyshire Parish Registers Edited by W. P. W. PHILLIMORE, M.A., B.C.L. AND LL. LL. SIMPSON. VOL. V. QrX. aoniion : Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. 124, Chancery Lane. 1909. — PREFACE. As promised in the last volume of the Marriage Registers of Derbyshire, the marriage records of St. Michael's are printed in this volume. ^ '^^QOQ^ The Editors do not doubt that these will prove equally interesting to Derbyshire people. In Volume V. they hope to print further instalments of town registers in the shape of those of St. Peter's, and also some village registers, to be followed in next volume by St. Werburgh's. It will be convenient to give here a list of the Derby- shire parishes of which the Registers have been printed in this series : — 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 lie. = marriage licence. All these extracts have been made by Mr. LI. LI. Simpson. Thanks are due to the parish clergy for permission 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 parishL registers. W.P.W.P Ll.Ll.S. 124, Chancery Lane, I January, 1909. I dontents* Marriages at Norton, 1559 to 1812. Notes.—Register No. I (1559 to 1653) is a very cumbrous and awkward volume, bound in thin parchment covers, measuring 2ft. 3in. by 7Un., and in consequence is a very uncomfortable manuscript to consult. It is in very bad condition owing to its having been folded up, which causes both the binding and the leaves to be very much broken.* It contains 116 pages of parchment of varying thicknesses ; three pages at the end are blank. At the commencement there is a preface in Latin referring to its " re- ligious preservation " and its " multifarious uses." The Register commences with the first year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and the first entry is the baptism of Elizabeth Greene, 30 Sep., 1559. The Marriages commence in the second year of the same reign, though in the same year (1559). The Register in the earlier portion is divided according to the year of the reign of the Sovereign. I have also entered the dates of the years chronologically, though not always entered so in the Register ; this for convenience of reference. There are a number of autographs of vicars and churchwardens who have witnessed the yearly entries. Some of them are excellent specimens of the painfully elaborate character of the EUzabethan era, and would be extremely difficult to forge. All the entries are in Latin. The Baptisms are entered separately at the commencement of the book, followed by the Marriages, and the Burials at the end. Each year is kept distinct, and the entries are attested at the bottom of each page up to 161 2 by the vicar and guardians, or churchwardens. From 1612 to 1622 they are not signed ; after this date they are generally signed yearly. Register No. II (1653-1693) is a more convenient size than its predecessor, being 1 3I- by 7|in. It is on parchment, and contains 76 pages, the first two, one in the middle of the book, and the last one and three-quarter pages being blank. The third page commences with the election of Thomas Rhodes as " Parish Register." The fourth page commences with Births, Marriages, and Burials mixed till the year 1655, then kept in groups up to 1663, afterwards each are entered by themselves consecutively to the end of the Register, the Baptisms coming first, the Marriages next, and the Burials last ; but the Baptisms are divided, and part of them come after the Marriages. The Register is well kept, but the writing in places is very scrawly and very closely written, also very faint, and is scarcely readable. The entries are in English till 1663, when they commence in Latin. At the clpse of each year the vicar usually signs, and occasionally the churchwardens. * This has since been remedied, and the book bound in white vellum. Register No. Ill (1694 to 1732) is on parchment, measuring isfin. by 8 Jin., and contains 86 pages, of which thirteen at the end are blank. It is bound in stiff boards covered with parchment, and is in good state of preservation with the exception of the back, of which there is httle left. This Register, like the last, is well kept, the entries being in the handwriting of the Rev. S. Trickett and the Rev. Cavendish Nevile. The entries are in Latin. The Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials are kept separate and distinct from each other, and each year is marked off and signed by the vicar. Register No. IV (1733 to 1782) is on parchment, measuring i6iin. by lo^in., and contains 92 pages, being full bound dark brown rough calf, and is in good condition, though some of the pages are rather loose and some are much discoloured ; but the writing is clear, bold, and distinct, and is, in fact, one of the most in- teresting of the Norton Registers, from the manner in which it has been kept. For the year 1733 the Baptisms, Burials, and Marriages are all entered separately on the first leaf ; afterwards the Baptisms occupy the first portion of the Register, the Burials the second portion up to March, 1744, and the Marriages follow to 1753, when Lord Hardwicke's Act came into force, directing the Mar- riages to be kept on a printed form. Register No. VI (Marriage Register No. i, 1754 to 1793). This is the usual Marriage Register, printed on paper, four certificates on each page, size I4fin. by gfin., and contains 188 pages. It is full bound in dark brown rough calf, and in good condition. The first portion of the book consists of 80 pages of Banns of Marriages and 8 blank pages. The second portion contains 100 pages of Certificates of Marriages, the last five and a half pages are unused. This volume contains a very large title-page to each section, stating that it is published by Joseph Fox, " Parish Clerk to the Honourable the House of Commons " and " Book- seller in Westminster Hall," and " Benjamin Dod, Bookseller to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, at the Bible and Key in Ave-Mary Lane, near St. Paul's, MDCCLIV." It has also a very fine coat of arms of George II. The book is well kept in the usual scrawly writing of the period. This and the succeeding Register contain httle of interest beyond the bare names, no other information being given. Register No. VII (Marriage Register No. 2, 1794 to 1812) is the same size and binding as the preceding one, and contains 198 leaves, the first half containing Certificates of Marriages, and the last half Banns of Marriages. Only 18 leaves are used for the Mar- riages, the rest being blank. The Register is well kept and in good condition. There is a very amusing epitaph on the gravestone of a scythe- smith in the churchyard, dated 2 March, 1795 : " My scy1:he and hammer lies reclined, My bellows too has lost their winde ; My iron is spent, my steel is gone. My scythes are set, my work is done ; My fires extinct, my forge decayed. My body in the dust is laid." These entries have been extracted by Mr. L. Lloyd Simpson, assisted by Messrs. G. Bailey and E. B. Smith, of Derby. They are now printed by permission of the Rev. G. W. Hall. M.A., Vicar of Norton. L . .... MARRIAGES. Register No. I., 1 559-1653. THaritagia sokmni^ata apub Uovion in comitatu Dcxhiac cj: secunbo anno regni (lii^abci\]ac reginae nunc ^ngliae usque ab quabragesimum secunbum bcatissimi ejus regni annum, et beinbe tmperpetuum in \}oc registro inscxihenba, secunbum statutum per ^enricum octapum nobilissimae memoriae ebitum anno bomini 1538. Second Year of the Reign of Elizabeth. Eraoras Scotte & Anna Woode . • • 5 Dec. 1559 William Camme & Jane Parker . 17 Jan. ,, John Allen & Anna Bullocke . 21 July 1560 John Rose & Anna Allen . 27 July Third Year of the Reign of Elizabeth, Robert Brownell & Dorothy Parker . 15 Feb. „ John Northe & Agnes Parkyn . 20 Ap. 1561 Fourth Year of the Reign of Elizabeth. Richard Lowe & Ales Matley . • 30 Ap. 1562 Richard Jopson & Jane Webster . Ap. 30 , John Slater & Elizabeth Blithe . • • 23 June „ A . 25 Nov. ... 1576] Norton Marriages. Fourteenth Year of the Reign of Elizabeth. William Cutlove & Emma Hobson . 25 Nov. William Hobson & Agnes Hall Hugh Foxe & Alice Bate . John Marre & Alice Staniforthe Edward Hall & Anna Greene Lawrence Hall & J ana Hall George Waddye & Anna Parker Francis Smithe & Jane Wallye Fifteenth Year of the Reign of Elizabeth Thomas Camme & Elizabeth Spooner William Allen & Margaret Harrison John Hollande & Agnes Rallynson Thomas Skynner & Elizabeth Hall Nicholas Frith & Isabella Gostehouse Thomas Hyggenson & Elizabeth Blithe Sixteenth Year of the Reign of Elizabeth Thomas Hoyland & Ellen Haulle .