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Title:
Register of baptisms, marriages and burials
Level: Category
Parish Records
Level: Fonds
COLD NORTON, St Stephen
Level: Sub-Fonds
INCUMBENT
Level: Series
Service of Church: Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials
Scope and Content:
Baptisms : 1539-1762
Marriages : 1539-1754
Burials : 1539-1771

Entries to 1598 transcribed [from an earlier register now lost] by rector John Webb; entries 1599-1618 also apparently written up after the event. Baptisms, marriages and burials recorded together to 1707 and separately thereafter (p.84).

Includes note by John [?Beoge] 1623 that 'this booke was made before I was born 54 yeres for I think I am 40 yeres of age'; note that `of these yeres, 1553, 1554, 1555 I fynde nothynge' (p.6); marginal sketches of hand with pointing forefinger to show entries out of proper order (pp.7, 10); marriage 5 August 1583 of Robert Lecheworthe and Margaret Bowes `bothe dwelling uppon London bridge'; burial 23 May 1611 of son of 'a pore vagrant fellow, wch child died in Norton Hall barne' (p.35); note of 6 burials 1657-1658 which 'came to my hand after wrighting the cattostrophas of thes years' (p.52); note c.1662 that 'finding the register very imperfect (by reason of the remisnes of my predecessors and unfeillfullne of our laate Register apointed by that pretendid authority) I have now taken in hand to revis and augment the same ...' (p.57), leaving space for future insertion of missing entries; prominent use of Roman numerals at heads of years 1663-1682; burial - entered in Latin -12 August 1682 of child of William Walker of Norton Hall, aborted during childbirth to save mother's life (p.74); burial 15 September 1689 of William Walker's wife Mary, mother of 16 children (p.77); burial 19 December 1757 of John Newman after inquisition by Mr. Thomas Freeman coroner (p.123); memorandum of 'great frost' when Fambridge ferry crossed on foot, December 1683 - February 1684 (p.138); notes of briefs collected 1638, 1661-1662, 1680-1684 (pp.139-142, 144); terriers of parsonage and glebe 1621, 1657 and 1750 (pp. 139,144); memorandum of gift 1675 by Mrs. Anne Browne to Cold Norton and Stow Maries of 3 yards of black cloth for funerals, to be kept at Flamberts, her 'joynter house' (p.140); list of farms and tenants with annual rent of each, n.d.(p. 143).
Inside front cover: note by rector 1815 of restoration of register after its return by Sir Henry Bate Dudley, following sale among effects of deceased incumbent, several pages being then missing.
Dates of Creation:
1539-1771
Extent:
1 volume
Language
English throughout, with 1 exception as noted.
Physical Characteristics:
Parchment register, rebound 1815; original pagination, re-marked 1815; part of p.141-142 cut out.
296 x 225 x 17 mm.
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