Reference
P21/1/0a
Title
General register of Baptisms 1558-1653, 1660-1724, Births 1653 - 1660, Marriages 1558 - 1720, Burials 1558 - 1724
Date free text
1558-1724
Production date
From: 1558 To: 1724
Scope and Content
Copied out from the original c.1605 and continued in the same hand until 1618-19.
Also includes various memoranda - mostly transcribed in full in B.P.R.S. Vol.4 pp.A66-7 - including:
(At front) note of appointment of William Filler of Barton as "Parish Register", 1653;
extracts from the register relating to the Cuffley family 1559-1685;
Copies of entries concerning the baptisms of three children of John Smith, and notes on monies left for the maintenance and upbringing, 1662, 1672, and 1677
(Among entries 1622) Note of reading in of Gabriel More, M.A., as Rector, 13 October 1622
(Among entries 1662) Note of induction of Thomas Crawley, D.D., as Rector, 16 September 1662
(Among entries 1665-6) Memorandum on bequest of Christopher Goldsmith for the poor of the parish of Barton, 1641 and 1665. (Among entries 1677) Note of induction and reading in of Arthur Humphreys, clerk, M.A. as Rector, June/July 1677
(Among entries 1719) Note of induction of Edward Willes, M.A., as Rector, 12 November 1718.
From 1705-1724 the names of the Rector and Churchwardens are entered annually in the Register.
Volume re-bound by W.N.Henman, Bedford, March 1938.
Original will not be produced, please use transcript.
Published transcript available in searchroom.
Transcribed and indexed in Bedfordshire Parish Register Series Volume 4
Level of description
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