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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D3260/A/PI/1/1
TitleRegister of baptisms, marriages and burials
Date1579-1783
Extent1 volume
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorParish of Bradley All Saints
CopiesAvailable on www.ancestry.com
A digital copy of this item can be viewed on the public computers at the record office. Microfilm M 125 vol 1
TermSlavery
Black peoples
Slaves
Oppression
Forced labour
Ethnic groups
Anglicans
Burials
Marriage registers
Baptism registers
Combined registers
Transcript or IndexIncludes an entry dated 10 Apr 1721 for the baptism of "Philip, a servant to Mr Meynell", described as "a person of ripe years" and a "Blackmore", i.e. an African. The entry continues "He was born (as he saith) at Cutumbe on the river Niger in Africa and was sold for a slave into Barbados and brought from there into England by the Lady Booth".

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Philip (fl1680s-1721); enslaved servant to the Meynell family
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