Reference
P119/1/1
Title
General register of
Births 1653 - 1660;
Baptisms 1661-1683, 1685, 1687, 1689-1692, 1698-1812;
Marriages 1653-1681, 1688-1692, 1698-1754;
Burials 1653-1683, 1685, 1687, 1689-1692, 1699-1812 1653-1812
Date free text
1653-1812
Production date
From: 1653 To: 1812
Scope and Content
Also includes numerous memoranda etc., as follows:
(inside front cover) Directions for making register entries, n.d. [c.1710]
(at front) Memoranda on Rectors of Yelden, from John Henne 1430, Barker died 1617, John Pocklinton 1618, William Dell 1654, and list of Rectors 1662-1819
(f.3) Note on election of John Pinkridge of Yelden as "parish register", signed by Richard Wagstaffe [J.P.] 25 October 1653
(at front) jottings by William Horsford, churchwarden, and Thomas Beckett, Rector, 1675
(passim) entries signed by Rector and Churchwardens
(f.35d) Memoranda concerning the advowson and Rectors of Yelden 1756-1870 (Bunting and Fernie families)
(f.36) Memoranda on the Bunting family of Norfolk and the Fernie family
(f.37 - inserted) coat of arms and motto of Fernie, and obituary card for the Rev. John Fernie, Rector of Yelden, with extracts from obituaries in The Times 28 Oct.1870, Northampton Herald 12 Nov. 1870, and The Guardian 9 Nov. 1870
(f.37d) Memoranda on repairs to the tower and spire by William Streather of Raunds, builder, to specification of John Day, architect, 1882; Memorandum on the rehanging of the bells (and recasting a cracked bell) by John Taylor & Co. of Loughborough and W.Henson of Finedon, 1886
(f.38) Memorandum on John Bunyan and William Dell of Yelden; on a sermon by John Pocklington, Rector of Yelden, 1635, which "gave such offence to the Puritans that" in 1640 it was ordered to be publicly burnt "by the hands of the common hangman"; on the title page of a sermon by William Dell of Yelden, 1645
(f.38d) Memoranda and press cuttings on the restoration of the chancel (Lewis Baker of Hargrave, architect), on the addition of a new organ chamber, and on the removal of the organ, 1892 [see P119/2/2/1-2 for papers concerning the new organ chamber]
(f.39) Memorandum on repairs to roof of nave following gale damage on 6 January 1906, work being undertaken by Messrs.W.Allen & Sons of Brampton, under supervision of S.Inskip Ladds of Huntingdon, architect
(f.51-2) Glebe terrier, Easter Visitation, 3 May 1709
(f.52d) Note on customary fee for marriage by banns (6s.) and by licence (10s.), 1759; Notes from Lysons' "Bedfordshire" re Yelden (f.64-64d) Register of briefs 1699-1704
(at back) Burial statistics 1781-1820, and miscellaneous pencil jottings
Original will not be produced; please use transcript or microfilm
Published transcript available in searchroom. Also searchroom mircofilm 184/34
Reference
Transcript published in Bedfordshire Parish Register Series Vol 7
Level of description
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