• Reference
    P114/1/2
  • Title
    General register of Births 1653 - 1662; Baptisms 1650-1652, 1662-1691; Marriages 1654-1657, 1663-1691; Burials 1653 - 1691
  • Date free text
    1650-1691
  • Production date
    From: 1650 To: 1691
  • Scope and Content
    Also contains various notes etc., as follows: [on front cover] Numerous jottings, and a note that the register was bought by Thomas Olney, "Register" from Stephen Dagnell at Laiton [Leighton Buzzard] on 8 November 1653, cost 6s. [at front] Miscellaneous births and marriages, 1650-1689 Note of approval of Thomas Ownye [Olney] as "parish register" for Chalgrave, "according to the parish choyce", signed by Fra:Astrey [J.P.], 9 November 1653 Note of collection of 14s. towards the relief of the "maritime & Corporation of Southwould otherwise Soulbay, in the Countey of Siffolke", 1659 [among entries] Detailed Commonwealth marriage entries 1654-7, made by the "parish register", followed by stray entries for the years 1669, 1670, and 1676 Annual entries signed by Vicar and Churchwardens 1684-1691 [At back] note of dispute concerning the marriage of William Blackwell and Elizabeth Hill, 1 December 1677
  • Original will not be produced. please use transcript.
  • Published transcript available in searchroom.
  • Transcript published in Bedfordshire Parish register Series Vol 18
  • Level of description
    item