Reference
P29/1/0
Title
General register of
Births 1652-4, 1656 - 1690;
Baptisms 1678 - 1713;
Marriages 1654, 1656 - 1711;
Burials 1653-4, 1656 - 1713
Date free text
1652-1713
Production date
From: 1652 To: 1713
Scope and Content
Also contains extensive memoranda, including
At front:
Agreement by Edward Green re tithes of grain, cocks, and rakings, 22nd August 1681.
List of "Catechumenists", 1686
At back:
Answers to Archdeacon's Visitation queries, 20 Oct. 1697
Receipt for eight [unspecified] briefs, 1685
Copy of the bill for Certainty money, Goodman Craweley, Constable, 1701
Lists of Churchwardens, Overseers, Surveyors of the Highway and Constables (some stating the properties for which the officers served) 1678-1707, 1708-1772, 1773-1794
Form of certificate for those that have been catechized, n.d.
List of Inhabitants of Meppershall, 1678-9, and names of people receiving communion at Easter, Whitsun and Christmas in 1678, 1679 1680, 1683 and 1701-2
Copy of deed relating to property in Wilshamstead, the rents to be used for putting forth poor children of Meppershall to School 17 March 1691/2
Note of agreement of the parish officers of Meppershall with those of Henlow for the repair of 48 poles from the South corner of the chapel hedges on highway from Hitchin to Shefford 31 Jan. 1705/6
Archival history
Volume not available when the Parish Register transcript was published but turned up in 1980 and a transcript was then made, which is available in the archive search room.
Originals will not be produced where surrogates exist.
Published transcript available in searchroom
Reference
Level of description
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