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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D1797/A/PI/1/1
TitleRegister of baptisms, marriages and burials
Date1540-1735
DescriptionThe first two pages (entries up to 1549) are fragmentary. Under 1615 and 1616, there are comments on the weather: March 12th 1614/15, the great snow broke, which had continued from Friday seven weeks before; 1616 a great drought, lasting almost the whole summer. Under 1647, memo of the death of William Bennett, 21st October (rector for 44 years), and the handing over of communion plate and other church valuables to the churchwarden.
Extent1 volume
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorParish of Morley St Matthew
CopiesAvailable on www.ancestry.com
Microfilm M303 vol. 1
TermAnglicans
Burials
Marriage registers
Baptism registers
Combined registers
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