The first Register of Swithland now existing in the parish consists of a single sheet of parchment measuring 19 by 8 inches and containing fifty-four mixed entries of Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials for the years 1676 to 1681. It is not (quite evidently) the original, or even a transcript from an original, but rather a compilation as the heading (given later) shows; the writing is all by one hand, good, clear and well-preserved, quite easy to read, in mixed modern with occasional Court-hand letters.
The first entry is: “Thomas, the son of William and An Porter baptized March 26th, 1676.”
The first. (existing) Volume consists of thirty-nine parchment leaves measuring 10¼ by 8½ inches, bound in parchment boards; the whole is loose in the covers, sections of leaves almost falling out ; it badly needs rebinding. First come eleven leaves of Baptisms with an occasional Marriage or Burial from 1700 to 1741. Then follow seven leaves and one-third of a page of Burials from 1702 to 1744 and to page XLIII, then about one and a-half pages of Baptisms from 1741 to 1745. During Mr. Brokesby’s time as Rector, from 1700 onwards, he frequently makes a note, “A Court at Newtown Lindford” and sometimes adds, “me judice.” This was the Court of the Peculiar of Groby under whose jurisdiction were Newtown Linford, Ratby, Swithland, Glenfield, Stanton—under—Bardon, Ansty and Cropston.
Grouped Marriages begin (chronologically) at page LI and continue for five pages from 1701 to 1727; the entries then recommence on page XLIX which has a note, “Here begins a Continuation of Marriages from page LVI” (a mistake for LV). These continue for two pages from 1728 to 1733, then recommence on page XLV; a note states, “The continuation of Marriages from page L,” for the period 1733 to 1742.
Thenceforward the pages are numbered 1, 2, 3, etc., and contain mixed entries, chiefly Burials and Baptisms from 1746 to 1783. At page 20, most of which is blank, there follows a blank leaf, pages 21 and 22. Pages 23 to 28 contain Burials only, 1760-78. 1779, “N.B.—None buried this year,” then 1780 to 1783. The writing is generally bold, good and easy to read, but quantities of “pounce” remained between the pages, which, congealed in patches by damp, have stained them ; several pages also show holes and the writing in places is faint.
Volume II consists of one blank paper leaf, much torn, thirty-four parchment leaves measuring 9½ by 7¾ inches bound in parchment boards and in good preservation, except that the covers are damaged by damp and the pages stained by pounce and damp as before. Three blank paper leaves. The bold, clear handwriting is wholly by Mr. John Llwyd, Rector from 1760 to 1813; the pages are numbered. The entries are Christenings from 1783 to 1813, pages 1 to 31, one entry only on page 31, the rest of that leaf and 14 leaves and 1½ sides of the 15th are blank; several have portions cut away; then 6½ leaves (except one page, blank except the note, “So far reckoned with the Stamp Office Nov. 9th, 1793”). The Christenings in this volume are prefaced by a “Memorandum.- When it duly on the Registry of Burials, Marriages, Births and Christenings was laid by Parliament ‘Anno vicessimo tertio Geogii tertii Regis’ three sheets of stamped paper were bought by the Church wardens of Swithland, one for the purpose of registering the Births and Christenings, one the Marriages, and one the Burials. But as single sheets are liable to he mislaid, it is thought advisable, to the end of more effectually perpetuating evidence, to make a transcript or copy of all such entries in a Book. The Christenings, in number 43, are as follows :-“
At the other end of the volume, inverted, Burials are entered. “Memorandum.— The following 49 entries were made on a single sheet of stamped paper.” Then follow Burials from 1783 to 1812. The Stamped Sheets here referred to are still preserved. There is also a single sheet of parchment measuring 13 by 6 7/8 inches containing transcripts of entries of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials for 1812. The Marriages collated with the original entries in Volume III agree except that the name Elizabeth Lakin is given as Labin.
There do not appear to be any entries of extraneous matters and few curious ones. In 1788 Mary, Elizabeth and Martha Newby were baptized, and a note says they were “at one birth.” Many entries occur of children “received into the Congregation of Christ’s flock” with notes of their private baptisms or being
“named.”
On page 21, Volume II, is a list of children named or privately baptised but not yet brought to church. One entry is, “John, son of (blank) Deakin and (blank) his wife, Feb. 4, 1801. 14 weeks old, and another older not yet named. The woman said “times were two hard to have a christening.” In a later hand is a gloss on
this, “and the silly rector received the excuse !! See rubric.”
Volume III consists of printed forms and contains Marriages from 1754 to 1812 and many Banns of couples married elsewhere.
Volume IV is also printed forms and contains Marriages from 1813 to June, 1837, and Banns as before. Both these volumes are loose in their covers, probably the result, of being kept in an iron chest in the Church. This being seldom opened, the damp condenses in warm weather and wets the books.
Volume V contains one Marriage in 1837 and is still in use.
There are three parchment sheets of Transcripts of Baptisms, 1817, and Burials, 1816 and 1817.
Mr. Hartopp’s list of Bishops Transcripts preserved in the Archdeacon’s Registry, 29, Friar Lane, Leicester, shows that transcripts earlier than the existing Registers exist there for the years 1616, 1624, 1633 to 1638; and that others for 1687, 1695, 1701, 1706 to 1708, are in the possession of the Rev. W. G. Dimock Fletcher. These were bought by Mr. Dimock Fletcher some years ago, having been publicly offered for sale with other muniments belonging to the Peculiar of Groby.
These abstracts have been made by Mr. E. K. Elliott, of Leicester, by permission of the Rev. J. M. Dixon, Vicar of Swithland.
Transcripts in Archdeanry Office
[No Marriages in 1616]
(No. 8) Robert Browne & Elizabeth Smyth, both of Swithland 15 Jan. 1624
(No. 179) “A trew Register of all Weddings, Christenings and
Buryings in Swythland sythence the 26th day of Aprill (1633)”
Marryed.
Fraunces Glenn & Elizabeth Haycock 22 July 1633
William Smyth & Ruth Broadhurst 20 Sept. 1633
Thomas Gibson and Mary Suttone 12 Oct. 1633
Richard Lyon & Joane Picwell 12 Nov. 1633
Samuel Huxley & Martha Fielding 22 Feb. 1633
Adrian Chettle & Dorothy Ball 3 May 1634
(No. 227) 1634-5. Marryed None.
(No. 218) 1636. Weddings.
Richard Ballhusband & Elizabeth Wood, of Mountsorrill 5 Nov. 1635 [sic]
(No. 140) 1637.
Frauncis Patchet, husbandman, & Sara Lummas, s. 18 Oct. 1637
(No. 240) 1638. Weddings.
Bartholomew Webster, laborer, & Ann Dawson, s. 21 May 1638
Robert Shearsha, weaver, & Elizabeth Clarke, s. 21 May 1638
George Skellington, a laborer, & Grace Granger 2 Feb. 1638
Groby Transcripts
[The following Marriages are kindly supplied by the Rev. W G. Dimock Fletcher, F.S.A., from the Swithlland Transcripts belonging to the Peculiar Court of Groby, now in his possession. Those for the years 1706-1708 exist also in the
Registers, but it will be noticed that the entries in the Transcripts contain fuller details.]
Thomas Mais, of Rugby, co. Warwick, & Elisabeth Hudson, of S. 14 July 1687
John Parker, of Rothly, & Ellener Howden, of S. 14 Feb. 1687
Thomas Cramp & Hannah Newberry 25 Aug. 1695
Abel Brokesby, clerk, & Alice Palmer, of the Borough of Leicester 20 May 1701
John Mee, of Ruddington, co. Nottingham,
& Elizabeth Lewin, of this Parish 1 May 1701
Thomas Dix, of Rothly & Elizabeth Clark, of this Town, with Banns 13 Jan. 1706
William Ward, of S., labourer, & Mary Smith, of Mountsorrel
in the p. of Barrow-upon—Soar, spinster, with Banns 21 May 1707
William Barnet, of Willoughby, in Nottinghamshire, blacksmith,
& Ann Andrews, of S., spinster, with Banns 5 May 1707
Richard Heich of Swithland, carpenter & Mary Siston of Mapplewell,
spinster, with a license taken out of the Peculiar of Groby 22 Mar. 1707
John Brown, mason, & Catherine Bolter, spinster, both of S., lic. 3 May 1708
John Paget, of Ragdale, w., & Rachel Hind, of S., w., banns. 30 May 1708
Marriages from registers
The single sheet of parchment mentioned above contains the following :—
“An account of what Christenings, Marriages and Burials that have beene (soe far as we can understand) in the parish of Swithland since Mr. Thomas Jackson took possession of that Rectory.”
James Harris & Helen Blankley 13 June 1678
John Shaw, of Dunnington, & Mary Baker, of S. 7 or 8 June [sic] 1680
John Dan, of Newtown Harcourt, & Mary Hessel, of S. 9 Jan. 1680
Volume I.
“Christenings Burials and Marriages Anno Dom. 1700.”
Marriages.
[As the Register is paged and the entries erratic, it seems well
to give the pagination]
p. I. Robert Hews & Elizabeth Gilbert 11 Aug. 1700
p. II. Abel Brokesby, Rector of Swithland, &
Alice Palmer, of the Borough of Leicester 20 May 1701
[This entry is repeated as the first of the grouped Marriages,
in point of date, not page, On p. II.]
p. XLV. “The Continuation of Marriages from page L.”
[For marriages 1702-1728, see pages 108-110 of these printed abstracts.]
William Palmer, of Glenfield, & Mary Oliver, of Anstey, lic. 4 Feb. 1733
Charles Pole, of Belgrave,
& Sarah Brewood, of Holgate [Hallgate], lic. 24 Feb. 1733
Benjamin Pare, of Plumtree, co. Nottingham,
& Anne Glover, of Stanton-under-Bardon, co. Leicester, lic. 22 Mar. 1733
William Hutchinson, of Sheepshead, & Alice Walker, of S. 23 Apr. 1734
Joseph Petcher & Sarah Walker, both of Newtown Linford 13 May 1734
Richard Baggerley & Sarah Browne, both of Newtown Linford 28 May 1734
John Kiddyer, of Stanton-under-Bardon,
& Mary Abbot, of Clifton, co. Stafford, lic. 3 June 1734
James Passand of Hugglescote, p. Ibstock
& Elizabeth Gilbert of S., lic. 20 Aug. 1734
John Read, of Markfield, & Mary Barnet, of S. 4 Feb. 1734
Joseph Irish, woolcomber, & Mary Poultney 11 July 1736
Thomas Ingram, f.w.k., & Mary Fielding 24 Apr. 1737
Thomas Porter, f.w.k., & Elizabeth Dexter 17 May 1738
p. XLVI. Robert Pryor, of S., & Eliz: Thornton 26 Dec. 1738
John Kellum & Elizabeth Johnson 9 Jan. 1738
Benjamin Glover, of Rothley, & Eliz. Hews, of S. 16 Jan. 1738
Thomas Humber & Sarah Walker, both of S. 3 Apr. 1739
William Needham, p. St. Leonard, Leicester, & Mary Brown, of S. 19 May 1740
William Preston & Mary Ashe, both of S. 19 Nov. 1740
Henry Branston & Mary Dexter, both of S. 31 Mar. 1741
William Soares & Elizabeth Porter, both of S. 29 June 1741
Squire Watnall & Ann Loveit, both of S. 26 July 1741
Thomas Wright, of Long Whatton, & Hannah Hall, of S. 15 Jan. 1741
Thomas Simpson, of Thrussington, & Elizabeth Hughs, of S. 28 May 1742
Thomas Wean, of Woodhouse, & Jane Skellet, of S. 1 Oct. 1742
Joseph Preston, of Rothley,* & Ann Branston, of S. 29 June 1743
Robert Glover, of Rothley,* & Elizabeth Johnson of S. 15 May 1744
William Westle Carpenter & Jane Clerk, both of S. 11 Nov. 1744
Thomas Estlin, of Hinckley, & Elizabeth Prior, of S., lic. 25 Mar 1745
John Bentley, of S., & Ann Cook, of Quorndon 14 Apr. 1745
George Kirby & Mary Bennet 18 Nov. 1745
Jacob Pollard, of S., & Margaret Burges, of Newtown Linford 19 Dec. 1745
p. XLIX. “Here begins a continuation of the Marriages from page LVI.”
* There is confusion in this Register between Ratby, a place spelt Rothby, and Rothley. Groby is p. Ratby, but frequently occurs here (unmistakeably) as p. Rothby. Nicholl’s History of Leicester spells Ratby variously as Rotebie, Rotby and Rotebi (never with an “h”). In places through the Register it is doubtful whether it is Rothly or Rothby, or whether Rothley or Ratby is meant.
John Farrar of Loughborough & Mary Middleton of Glenfield, lic. 15 Sept. 1728
Henry Watson, of S., & Sabina Hall, of Barrow-on-Soar 14 Apr. 1729
Joseph Cave & Emmatt Middleton, both of Glenfield, lic. 21 Sept. 1729
James Chaplin, of Bardon Park,
& Rebecca Bodell, of Glenfield, lic. 30 Sept. 1729
William Pollard & Elizabeth Smith 14 Nov. 1729
Thomas Johnson, of S., & Alice Mountney, of Quorndon 30 Nov. 1730
John Leverett, of Markfield, & Sarah Adcock, of Ratby, lic. 1 Feb. 1730
William Walker & Anna Bates 27 Apr. 1731
William Arnold & Elizabeth Baker, both of Ratby, lic. 31 July 1731
Thomas Clarke & Abigail Hurst, both of Ansty, p. Thurcaston, lic. 12 Oct. 1731
p. L. Thomas Pollard & Elizabeth Peake 11 Nov. 1731
Job Cramp & Alice Bunney, both of Rothby [Ratby], lic. 6 Jan. 1731
Edward Heich of S. & Mary Brewood, of Holgate, p. Newtown Linford 13 Jan. 1731
Valentine Avery, of Markfield, gent.,
& Elizabeth Choyce, of Whittington Grange, p. Ratby, lic. 1 May 1732
Samuel Wright
& Susanna Chaplin, w., both of Ullescroft [Ulverscroft], lic. 28 May 1732
John Dod, p. St. Martin, in the Borough of Leicester,
& Anne Marsden, of S., lic. 18 Apr. 1733
David Jee, of Groby, p. Ratby,
& Anne Coleburne, of Newtown Linford, w. 23 May 1733
John Lovet, w, & Mary Wylde, w., both of Newtown Linford, lic. 19 Sept. 1733
Thomas Clarke, of Sutton Bonnington, Co. Nottingham, w., taylor,
& Elizabeth Stephenson, of Groby, p. Ratby, s., lic. 12 Oct. 1733
John Bakewell, of Barrow-upon-Soar, & Mary Bostock, of S. 13 Nov. 1733
[At foot of p. L. is] “The Marriages are continued at the XLV. page.”
p. LI. John Mee, of Ruddington, co. Nottingham,
& Elizabeth Lewin, w., of S. 1 May 1702
Robert Bakewell & Elizabeth Brown, of Hathern 1 June 1702
William Lee, of Manchester, co. Lancaster,
& Elizabeth Watnall, of S. 3 June 1702
Thomas Pollard, of Syston, & Mary Abbot, of S. 28 July 1702
John Wean, of Thurcaston, & Mary Weston, of S. 17 Nov. 1702
Henry Guilford, of Keyham, & Mary Glenn, of S. 21 Nov. 1702
John Burton, of Barrow-upon-Soar, & Mary Siston, of S. 27 May 1703
p. LII. Thomas Bird & Mary Mason, both of S. 15 Jan. 1703
John Lewen, of Thrussington, & Elizabeth Clark, of S. 30 Apr. 1704
George Woolley, of Ruddington, co. Nottingham
& Eleanor Jenings, of S. 19 Oct. 1704
Thomas Smith & Mary Siston, both of S. 2 Nov. 1704
Thomas Hews & Mary Deakins 27 Apr. 1705
James Cooper & Ann Dudly, both of the Borough of Leicester, lic. 9 Feb. 1705
Thomas Dix, of Rothley, & Elizabeth Clark, of S. 13 Jan. 1706
William Ward, of S.,
& Mary Smith, of Mountsorrel, p. Barrow-on-Soar 1 May 1707
p.LIII. William Barnet, of Willoughby, co. Nottingham,
& Ann Andrew, of S. 5 May 1707
Richard Heich, of S., & Mary Siston, of Maplewell, lic. 22 Mar. 1707
John Brown, mason, & Catherine Bolter, s., both of S., lic. 3 May 1708
John Patchet, of Ragdale, & Rachel Hind, of S. 30 May 1708
Henry Hastings, of Mountsorrel, p. Barrow-upon-Soar,
& Jane Swane, of S. 15 Jan. 1713
Thomas Smith & Ann Dawson, both p. Belgrave 8 Aug. 1714
William Dexter, p. Rothby [Ratby?], & Mary Parker, of S. 30 July 1715
William Westley, of Woodhouse, & Anne Branston, of S. 30 May 1716
Robert Browne & Elizabeth Fielding, both of S. 13 Jan. 1716
William Henson, of Shepshead, & Anne Prier, of S. 13 Jan. 1717
Thomas Poole, of Willingcutt, co. Warwick,
& Sarah Burgess, of Groby Lodge, p. Ratby, lic. 6 Feb. 1717
p.LIV. Robert Blunfill & Mary Prior, both of S. 30 Apr. 1718
John Lacy & Mary Fletcher, both of Groby, p. Ratby 1 May 1718
John Orers, of Loughborough, & Susanna Woodford, of S. 24 June 1718
Samuel Clarke, of S., & Anne Sydderns, of Groby, p. Ratby, lic. 14 Oct. 1718
Thomas Leago, shoemaker, & Anne Prior, both of S. 16 June 1719
William Kirke, of Thorpe Acre, p. Dishley, shoemaker,
& Isabella Prior, of S., s., lic. 29 June 1719
William Greasley, of Groby, p. Ratby, taylor,
& Bridget Eyton, of Ansty, lic. 29 May 1721
John Hacket, of S., sojourner, & Catherine Smith, of Birstall 14 Nov. 1721
Robert Hind & Elizabeth Keatley, both of Newtown Linford, lic. 31 Dec. 1721
Benjamin Palmer, of Market Bosworth,
& Mary Blackwell, of S., both co. Leic. 29 June 1722
p. LV. Thomas Hovey, of Gaddesby, & Jane Preston, of S. 29 Sept. 1722
John Bennet & Martha Hancock, both sojourners in S. 3 May 1723
John Pochin of Sileby, gent. & my daughter, Mary Brokesby, of S.,
both co. Leicester married by tic in Broadgate [Bradgate] Chapple 20 May 1723
George Cooke, a sojourner,
& Mary Hornbuckle, a servant maid in this p. 12 Nov. 1723
John Wildman, of Wanlip, & Amey Fielding, of S. 21 July 1724
William Branston & Jane Pollard, both of S. 12 Nov. 1725
Joseph Sheppeard & Ann Judd, both of Barkby 3 Apr. 1726
John Branston & Anne Barnet, both of S. 3 June 1726
Joseph Prior & Mary Freeman, both of S., lic. 3 Feb. 1727
William Smith & Anne Holt, both of Newtown Linford, lic. 17 Dec. 1727
p. LVI. John Martin
& Anne Jarvice were married in Bradgate Chapple 21 Mar. 1727
Thomas Smith & Catherine Spawton, both of Anstey, lic. 3 June 1728
William Smith & Elizabeth Ward 10 June 1728
“The Marriages are continued at page XLIX.”
[For Marriages 1728-1733, see page p. 107, and for 1734-1745, p. 105-6, of these printed abstracts.]
[Here, 1746, pages begin to be numbered 1, 2, 3, etc.]
p.1. John Warner, of Newton Linford,
& Margaret Measures, of Barrow-upon-Soar, lic. 1 Jan. 1747
William Gilbert & Martha Perkins 21 Apr. 1747
p.2. Samuel Tookey, of Groby
& Mary Fisher, p. St. Mary, Leicester, lic. 18 Oct. 1747
John Brooks & Hannah Dexter 4 May 1748
Stephen Clark, of Woodhouse, p. Barrow-upon-Soar,
& Elizabeth Clark, of S. 2 Nov. 1748
Thomas Smith & Ann Porter, both of S. 5 Jan. 1749
Thomas Atkins, of Charley, & Sarah Smith, of S. 24 Apr. 1749
Thomas Smith, of S., & Elizabeth Widdowson, of Charley 26 Dec. 1750
William Simson, of Cossington, & Elizabeth Baum, of S. 3 Jan. 1750
p. 4 John Fernley, of Rothley, & Mary Goodman, of S. 26 Mar. 1751
John Burrow, of Rothley, & Mary Bloomfield 3 Apr. 1751
Thomas Brawnson & Mary Wheat, both of S. 5 Sept. 1751
Thomas Hardway & Elizabeth Brawnson, both of S. 8 Sept. 1751
John Westley, of Mountsorrel, & Elizabeth Palmer, of S., lic. 17 Oct. 1752
Benjamin Yeomans, of Cropston, p. Thurcaston, & Mary Moor, of S. 27 Nov. 1752
John Hetterley, of Rothley, & Mary Brawnson, of S. 25 Dec. 1752
Thomas Walker & Martha Thornton, both of S., lic. 31 Jan. 1753
[p. 9 to p. 20 contain Christenings only. Faded ink. Excessive “pounce” and damp have done much harm, holes eaten in several pages and entries (well written) very faded. Then follow p. 23 to 28, Burials]
Volume II.
[Parchment, contains Baptisms 1783—1812 and Burials 1783—1812 all in handwriting of John Llwyd, Rector, excellently kept]
Volume III.
Thomas Raynor & Elizabeth Eaglefield 2 Dec. 1754
William Gutteridge, of Woodhouse, labourer, & Elizabeth Woadson 31 Mar. 1755
William Clark & Mary Butt 25 June 1755
Edward Merrell, of Loughborough, & Sarah Smith 12 July 1756
John Bennet & Elizabeth Barwell 21 Mar. 1757
Thomas Baume, of Quarndon, soldier, & Sarah Page, lic. 3 Nov. 1757
William Hutchinson & Jane Johnson 11 Nov. 1758
Thomas Pollard, of S., & Hannah Hurt of the Liberty of Mapplewell 26 Dec. 1758
Andrew Lessley & Sarah Franks 3 Apr. 1759
Thomas Pollard & Mary Braunston, with consent of parents 9 July 1760
William Wells, labourer, & Mary Andrew 15 July 1760
John Pollard, f.w.k., of S., & Mary Lewin, of Newtown Linford 12 Nov. 1760
Thomas Johnson, p. All Saints, Leicester, labourer
& Elizabeth Smallwood 23 Nov. 1760
Robert Broomfield, of S., farmer, & Ann Adcock, p. Ratby,
within the jurisdiction of the Peculiar of Groby, lic. 12 Jan 1761
John Johnson & Elizabeth Turner 28 Aug. 1761
William Pollard & Elizabeth Prior 1 Sept. 1761
Joseph Lewin, of Rothley, & Ann Pollard 29 Jan. 1762
Thomas Hughes, of S., w., & Rosamond Serson, lic. 1 Dec. 1762
[This Marriage is entered twice with a note that the licence for the first Marriage was invalid, because extracted from the Court of the Archdeacon of Leicester, whereas it ought to have been from the Groby Peculiar Court, the parties being within that jurisdiction]
William Snow, labourer, & Ann Bentley, w., lic. 28 Dec. 1762
Thomas Page, of S., & Mary Smith, of Rothley 7 Feb. 1763
William Johnson & Elizabeth Kemb 17 Oct. 1763
William Crapper, yeom., & Mary Farmer, w. 5 Dec. 1763
William Baulm & Jane Brewin 19 Dec. 1763
Henry Hall & Ann Sarson 27 Nov. 1764
John Dykes, of S., gardener,
& Mary Featherstone, of Market Bosworth, lic. 23 May 1765
John Pickard, of the Liberty of Ulverscroft, widowman [sic],
& Sarah Hughes, w., lic. 1 Nov. 1765
William Clark & Elizabeth Brewin, with consent of parents 11 May 1766
Francis Ballard, of Desford [co. Leic.],
& Mary Sarson, lic. (Nevertheless) [sic] 19 Aug. 1766
Thomas Gowen, of S., & Elizabeth Shenton, of Prestwold 3 Nov. 1766
Matthew Eyre & Elizabeth Steers, lic. 25 May 1767
Thomas Chambers, of Nuttall, co. Nottingham, & Margaret Burton,
of the extra parochial liberty of Mapplewell [co. Leic.] 30 June 1767
Henry Chapman, of Stanton-under-Bardon,
p. Thringston, & Lydia Perkins, lic. 21 Jan. 1768
Thomas Ashton, of S.,
& Elizabeth Bonsor, of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, lic. 21 Apr. 1768
John Hull & Mary Balm, lic. 11 Oct. 1768
Samuel Soars & Mary Smitham 28 Nov. 1768
Thomas Smitham, tailor, & Elizabeth Hornnor 2 Aug. 1769
Benjamin Pollard, yeoman, & Sarah Hudson 4 Sept. 1769
John Beasly & Mary Johnson 12 Mar. 1770
John Newbold, farmer, & Elizabeth Clarke, lic. 16 Oct. 1771
John Clarke & Ann Ball 25 Dec. 1771
John Kelm, w., & Ann Whatnall, w. 29 Oct. 1771
John Llwyd, rector of the p. of Swithland,
& Mary Major, p. St. Martin, Leicester, lic. 27 Feb. 1772
Henry Burton, of the ex-p. liberty of Mapplewell Longdale,
& Dorothy Johnson 28 July 1772
William Wood & Ann Branston 11 Oct. 1772
Nathanael Hale, w., & Martha Waldrom, lic. 18 Feb. 1773
Robert Taylor, of Woodhouse, & Elizabeth Johnson 27 May 1773
Samuel Humber, of Quorndon, & Elizabeth Broomfield 31 May 1773
Joshua White, of Walton-in-the-Woulds, co. Nottingham,
& Elizabeth Clarke, under age, lic., with consent of parents 5 Dec. 1774
Thomas Burton, of the ex-p. liberty of Mapplewell Longdale,
& Ann Kilbourn 25 Sept. 1774
Thomas Wootnall & Elizabeth Pollard 31 Jan. 1775
Robert Preston, of S., & Elin (or Helena) Gery, of Thurcaston 6 Aug. 1775
John Shelton, of Syston, cooper, & Ann Day, lic. 12 Dec. 1775
Thomas Fukes & Elizabeth Brooks 22 July 1776
John Lawrance & Sarah Bostock 31 Dec. 1776
Stephen Clarke & Jinny Fennelow (under age) 11 Feb. 1777
Isaac Harris, p. St. Martin, Leicester, & Ann Johnson 7 July 1778
Thomas Brown, of Seagro[?a]ve, co. Leicester, & Ann Brown 26 Sept. 1778
James Smart, of Drayton Basset, co. Stafford, & Jane Johnson 21 Nov. 1778
William Fletcher, of S., carpenter, & Ann Hall, of Long Whatton 24 May 1779
[No entries for 1780-81]
William Clarke & Anne Clarke, w., lic. 3 Sept. 1782
Daniel Bates & Jinny Clarke 18 Feb. 1783
John Gray, of S., & Ann Noon, of Rothley 27 May 1784
Joseph Johnson & Elizabeth Gregg 30 June 1784
Thomas Raynor & Christian Preston 11 Aug. 1784
“The sixteen Marriages next following were entered upon a sheet of Stamped Paper and are now copied into this book in their order, lest that should be mislaid, October 1st 1793 John Llwyd, Rector”
[The sheet of Stamped Paper still exists, and the following entries are copied from it and collated with the copy mentioned above]
William Limbert, of Rothley, & Sarah Chamberlain 25 Nov. 1784
William Snow & Mary Hull 24 Jan. 1785
James Ellis, p. St. Martin, in Leicester, & Mary Ralphs 6 Oct. 1786
Stephen Clarke & Jane Bates 31 Jan. 1786
Benjamin Glover, p. St. Martin in Leicester, & Sarah Eyre 8 May 1787
Anthony Woodford, of Barrow-on-Soar, & Elizabeth Pollard 17 May 1787
Richard Quinton, of Barrow-on-Soar, & Mary Johnson 11 June 1787
Edward Townsend & Ann Sharman 20 June 1787
Thomas Fisher & Mary Sharp 23 Sept. 1787
Thomas Lovitt, of Rothley, & Elizabeth Cook 12 Oct. 1788
Matthew Beston, of Woodhouse, & Ann Cliff 26 Nov. 1788
William Hutchinson, of Woodhouse, & Mary Fernerley 16 Dec. 1788
William Plowright, of Cropston, p. Thurcaston, & Rebecca Moore 25 Dec. 1788
William Flint, of Quorndon, & Ann Haddon 18 May 1789
John Johnson & Ann Hall 7 Sept. 1789
William Gaunt & Elizabeth West 28 Sept. 1789
William Brookhouse & Elizabeth Brooksby 3 Nov. 1789
Michael Goadby & Ann Johnson, lic. 5 Nov. 1789
William Brown & Elizabeth Beston 25 Jan. 1790
John Brown, yeoman, & Mary Spencer, lic. 2 June 1790
James Dawkins, of Congerstone, & Sarah Toon 29 Nov. 1790
Thomas Church, of Sileby, grazier,
& Ann Phillips Schwadear, lic., with consent of parents 26 Oct. 1791
Thomas Wood, of Groby, p. Ratby, & Ann Pollard 21 Feb. 1792
Thomas Bramley, of S., stonemason,
& Alse (otherwise Alice) Johnson, of Rothley 10 Apr. 1792
Thomas Preston & Mary Vestey 30 July 1792
William Lovat, labourer, & Elizabeth Wilson, w. 22 Sept. 1793
Thomas Wild, of Barrow-upon-Soar, & Ann Clark 1 Oct. 1793
Joseph Burton & Ann Cresswell 5 May 1794
Thomas Lander, of Woodhouse, & Mary Beasley 18 Aug. 1794
David Bunney & Elizabeth Pitts 29 Nov. 1794
William Wykes, of the South end of Mountsorrel, p. Rothley,
& Martha Preston 24 Aug. 1794
Thomas Thomas, of S., w.,
& Elizabeth Embley, of the City of Bath, w., lic. 23 Oct. 1796
Thomas Brooksby & Dorothy Marson 28 Nov. 1796
Joseph Garner & Mary Swinfield 26 Feb. 1797
George Lovatt, blacksmith, & Mary Astin 18 Sept. 1797
John Crag & Sarah Brown 12 Nov. 1797
John Berrington & Jane Baum 27 Nov. 1797
John Tansley, p. All Saints’, Leicester, & Jane Brown 15 Jan. 1798
John Wakerly & Ann Raynor 29 Jan. 1798
William Simpson & Sarah German 8 Feb. 1798
George Challton & Mary James 24 Apr. 1798
William Allum, of East Leak, co. Nottingham, & Jane Johnson 1 Jan. 1799
Thomas Fewkes, w., & Mary Oadby, lic. 15 Nov. 1799
Benjamin Wilson, of Rothley, & Ann Whatnall 8 Dec. 1799
Benjamin Hemsley & Elizabeth Johnson 28 Dec. 1800
William Brown & Elizabeth James 8 June 1801
Francis Morris & Mary Lovatt 27 Oct. 1801
William Giles, of Heather, co. Leicester,
& Elizabeth Whatnall, lic. 11 Nov. 1801
Thomas Sharp, of S., labourer, & Ann Johnson, of Rothley, lic. 29 Aug. 1802
John Newton, of Queniborough, & Ann Pitts 6 Dec. 1802
[No entry for 1803]
Samuel Priestley, of Barrow-on-Soar, w., & Elizabeth Brown, lic. 9 Nov. 1804
John Bunney & Elizabeth Bates, lic., with consent of her father 11 Nov. 1804
John Hopkins, of Mountsorrel, p. Rothley, & Hannah Hull 12 Nov. 1804
Benjamin Pollard, of S.,
& Elizabeth Hoden, p. St. Margaret, Leicester, lic. 24 Dec. 1804
Richard Vestey & Elizabeth Calladine 26 Feb. 1805
Henry Thornton, of Cropston, in the exempt Jurisdiction of Groby,
& Sarah Cooper, w., lic. 19 Nov. 1805
William Dawson, of Mountsorrel, gardener & Elizabeth Bunney lic. 24 Dec. 1805
[No entries in 1806]
Samuel Shenton & Ann Vestey 30 Mar. 1807
Henry Burton & Sarah Worth 25 Nov. 1807
Samuel Preston & Hannah Palmer 28 Mar. 1808
William Brown & Elizabeth Matthews 4 July 1808
William Greasley, of S., & Ann Bird, of Thurcaston, lic. 12 Jan. 1809
Edward Hickling, of S., a private in His Majesty’s
103rd Regiment of foot, & Elizabeth Woodward, w., lic. 17 Mar. 1809
Benjamin Hemsley, of S., & Mary Hutchinson, of Woodhouse 15 Oct. 1809
[No entry for 1810]
Henry Burton & Mary Row 5 Aug. 1811
Thomas Palmer & Jane Bates 23 Sept. 1811
Thomas Sutton, p. Woodhouse, & Elizabeth Eyre 19 May 1812
William Potter, of Woodhouse, & Elizabeth Hill 31 Aug. 1812
Benjamin Hill, of S., & Susannah Cresswell, of Anstey 31 Aug. 1812
Barfoot Richardson
& Elizabeth Lakin, lic., with consent of her father 26 Oct. 1812
Volume IV.
Richard Bayley, of Woodhouse, & Frances Bates 19 Jan. 1813
William Preston & Ann Kirby 8 Nov. 1813
Thomas Barson & Ann Newby 21 Mar. 1814
Thomas Preston & Sarah Kirby 31 Mar. 1814
George Morris & Ann Bates 17 May 1814
Benjamin Wilford & Ann Stevenson 18 Jan. 1815
Samuel Bunny & Sarah Baum 17 July 1815
Thomas Clarke & Mary Newby, w. 31 July 1815
Joseph Bostock, of Quorndon,
& Sarah Lakin, lic., with consent of parents 7 Nov. 1815
William Adcock & Mary Rower 25 Nov. 1815
Samuel Brown, w., & Elizabeth Jones 1 Jan. 1816
Matthew Hodges & Ann James, of S. [not stated “both”] 5 Mar. 1816
Henry Hind, w. of Loughborough, Co. Leicester & Jane Clarke, lic. 13 June 1817
Zachariah Raynor & Ann Baum, lic. 18 Nov. 1817
Edmund Renals, of Loughborough, & Sarah Bates 2 Feb. 1818
Jefferey Spence, w., & Mary Chalton, w. 25 Jan. 1819
Stephen Clarke, of S., & Sarah Lockwood, of Mountsorrel North End 24 May 1820
John Simpson & Anne Clarke 22 June 1820
[No entry for 1821]
Joseph Bromley & Sarah Raynor 4 Feb. 1822
William Brokehouse & Hannah Vesty 16 Sept. 1822
John Weston & Jane Bereson 19 May 1823
James Clarke & Elizabeth Thorpe 18 Aug. 1823
[No entry for 1824]
Benjamin Petts, of Woodhouse, & Anne Berreson 28 Feb. 1825
Francis Wakerley, of S., & Elizabeth Hefford, of Anstey 3 Mar. 1825
Thomas Harley, of Loughborough, & Gertrude Simpson, lic. 26 Apr. 1825
William Clarke & Sarah Preston 5 Dec. 1825
John Thompson & Hannah Thorpe 30 Jan. 1826
Samuel Vesty & Anne Clarke 29 May 1826
David Wilson & Mary Wakerley 23 Aug. 1826
William Morris, of Woodhouse, & Francis Carter 22 Feb. 1827
William Burton & Elizabeth Sweeney 12 Mar. 1827
George Wesley, of Newtown Lindford, & Dorothea Bruxby 17 Sept 1827
Francis Raynor & Mary Harryman 5 Nov. 1827
John Ward & Jane Chalton 26 Nov. 1827
Joseph Burton & Anne Broomfield 5 May 1828
Joshua Preston & Mary Watson, with consent of parents 9 Mar. 1829
Thomas Farmer, of Thornton, & Mary Vesty 6 July 1829
John Platts, of Rearsby, & Elizabeth Gretton 31 July 1829
Benjamin Petts, w., & Mary Ward 29 Dec. [blank]
John Morris & Sarah Lines 26 Apr. 1830
Daniel Preston & Jane Clark 23 Aug. 1830
Thomas Webster, of Desford, co. Leicester, & Anne Whattoffe, lic. 5 Oct. 1830
John Bowler & Diana Brown 30 Nov. 1830
James Brown & Sarah Pickering 1 Jan. 1831
Edward Topley & Mary Brown 28 Nov. 1831
John Preston & Ann Worrall 24 Jan. 1832
Thomas Hill & Elizabeth Bird 24 Sept. 1832
Richard Thorpe & Elizabeth Ward 8 Jan. 1833
William Brookhouse, w., & Elizabeth Brown, w. 2 Sept. 1833
Thomas Ward & Frances Johnson, w., of Woodhouse 26 Nov. 1833
Edward Willars, of Markfleld,
& Susannah Jarvis, lic., with consent of parents 24 Dec. 1833
William Sharp Potter & Elizabeth Richardson 25 Feb 1834
John Thorpe, w., & Sarah Bunney, w. 2 July 1834
John Clarke, of S.,
& Susan Norman, of Edgbaston [co. Warwick], lic. 14 Aug. 1834
Phillip Fowler, of S., & Jemimah North, of Rothley 8 June 1835
Samuel Lewin & Ann Burton, w. 30 Nov. 1836
Thomas Lines, w., & Elizabeth Brooksby 20 Feb. 1837
John Thompson, w., & Ann Hudson, w. 28 Mar. 1837
Thomas Harriman & Mariah Vesty 13 June 1837
George Morris, blacksmith, & Mary Prince 5 Oct. 1837
