Keyham is a member of the ancient Soke of Rothley. The following is a description of its earlier registers.
Volume I. consists of 20 leaves of parchment in cardboard covers, measuring 13½ in. by 5 in., and contains Baptisms and Burials, 1563 to 1655 and Marriages 1568 to 1655, mixed. This is a transcript of an earlier register book made about 1633, each page being attested by Thomas Sampson, then minister of Keyham, and the churchwardens. Some portion of the book is a little difficult to decipher, but otherwise its condition is tolerably good.
Volume II., a similar book to the above, consists of 15 leaves of parchment, same size as No. 1, in stout paper covers. This contains all classes of entries, mixed, from 1656 to about 1719. Condition bad. Several leaves have been cut at the bottom and a few entries appear to be missing.
Volume III. is also of parchment in parchment boards, the leaves, 17 in number, measuring 12 in. by 7 in., a few of which have been cut short and several bound up in their wrong order. This volume appears to contain Baptisms and Burials from 1711 to 1759 and 1771 to 1783, and Marriages, 1723 to 1753.
Volume IV. — Marriages, 1754 to 1771. This is the usual Marriage Register of printed forms, consisting of 7 leaves of parchment in paper covers, 15½ in, by 9¾ in. This volume also contains Baptisms and Burials, 1757 to 1779.
Volume V — Marriages only, 1771 to 1812. A folio volume of paper leaves, 14½ in. by 9¾ in., printed forms, bound in boards. This also contains Banns, 1771 to 1790. Some of the leaves are blank.
Volume VI. — Baptisms and Burials, 1783 to 1804, on 6 parchment leaves, 13¾ in. by 9¾ in. in parchment boards.
Volume VII. — Baptisms and Burials, 1805 to 1812, on 4 parchment leaves, 13¼ in. by 9 in. (8 leaves blank) in parchment boards.
Volume VIII. — Marriages only, 1813 to 1837. This is the usual folio volume of paper leaves, size 15½ in. by 9¾ in., printed forms in vellum hoards. There are 100 pages of which eleven are used, and 32 forms filled in.
These marriage entries, 294 in number, have been abstracted by Mr. Henry Hartopp, of Leicester, by permission of the Rev. Dr. Sanders, Rector, and the Churchwardens of Keyham.
Volume I.
“The Regester booke that belongs to the Parish of Keame” Anno Dni 1563
Willm Woodcocke & Anne, his wife 6 Nov. 1568
Henry Bate & Joane, his wife 12 Nov. 1568
Thomas Leson & Alse, his wife 9 Nov. 1571
Robert Smith & Mary, his wife 29 June 1572
Arthur Harrington & Ann, his wife 24 Nov. 1572
Robert Burdit & Alse, his wife 12 Nov. 1575
Robert Symkin & Alse, his wife 7 Dec. 1575
Michaell Woodcocke & Jesse, his wife 12 Nov. 1576
Thomas Normanton & Ann his wife 26 Nov. 1576
Roger Ives & Ann, his wife 9 Nov. 1577
Thomas Robottome & Joane, his wife 27 Apr. 1579
Richard Bruxbe & Ann, his wife 13 Jan. 1579
Willm Ellis & Elyner, his wife 27 Nov. 1581
George Dracott & Elizabeth, his wife 3 Dec. 1581
Willm Cox & Joane, his wife 4 Dec. 1581
Thomas Narmanton & Katherin, his wife 4 Nov. 1582
Thomas Clarke & Katherin, his wife 3 Dec. 1582
Robert Trevis & Elizabeth, his wife 3 Feb. 1587
Willm Davie & Jesse, his wife 19 Feb. 1587
Thomas Hadden & Mary, his wife 1 July 1588
Leonerd Gregory & Jane, his wife 2 Dec. 1588
Leonard Dan & Ann, his wife 10 Jan. 1589
Thomas Read & Alse, his wife 16 July 1597
James Stokeley & Ann, his wife 3 Aug. 1600
Robert Gallarde & Elizabeth Till 2 Dec. 1607
Willm Woodcocke & Sarah Woodcocke 19 Nov. 1608
Richard Winterton & Isabell Edmonds 15 Feb. 1609
Willm Knight & Alse Kay 21 Apr. 1610
George Blacke & Elizabeth Dracott 4 May 1612
Thomas Evans & Alse Cokerrith 5 May 1612
Michael Lardman & Emm Smith 19 Sept. 1612
Willm Tomson & Ellen Beckett 9 July 1613
Thomas Bradshawe & Katherin Woodcocke 7 Sept. 1613
Thomas Carter & Winefride Orleby 12 Feb. 1613
Thomas Paley & Sarah Ridge 25 Aug. 1614
Willm Glover & Hellen Greene 28 Nov. 1614
Harrold Skampton & Mary Chamberlin 28 Nov. 1614
Bartholomew Winby & Mary Clarke 8 July 1615
Henry Danne & Jane Bishopp [?]5 Aug. 1616
Zachary Smith als. Moore & Ane Burdet 29 Oct. 1616
Thomas Chesterton & Sarah Oswin 7 May 1618
Thomas Normanton & Alse Chamberlin 21 May 1620
Emanuell Manton & Ann Gilford 26 May 1620
Thomas Glover & Jane Pillips 13 Nov. 1620
Robert Shipley & Joane Cox 27 Jan. 1620
Edward Huffen, of Syston, & Ann Worthington, of Keame [Keyham] 30 July 1621
Willm Trigg & Elizabeth Roberts 6 Nov. 1621
Robert Walkar & Joane Dracote 19 Nov. 1621
Thomas Gilford & Ann Davie 3 Dec. 1621
Willm Skeath & Jane Chamberlin 27 Jan. 1621
Nicholas Clabrooke & Elizabeth Sutton 4 Mar. 1621
Willm Windsor & Elizabeth Litchfeild 24 June 1624
Willm Howitt & Ann Dracott 29 June 1624
Willm Coed & Cassander Palmer, both of Rothley,
married with a Licence [blank]
Richard Rigsbie & Ann Cox 14 Nov. 1625
Robert Bett & Ann Maddockes 8 Feb. 1625
Ambrose Tarelees & Joane Walkar 29 Nov. 1628
Thomas Normanton & Frances Pole 1 May 1630
Willm Davie, s. of Brian Davie, & Rose Clarke 8 Aug. 1630
Luke Clapham & Elizabeth Cooke 8 Nov. 1630
Bartholomew Winby & Mary Winterton 15 Oct. 1631
Charles Ilston & Alse House 8 July 1634
Willm Breers & Mary Waddington 2 Nov. 1634
Thomas Normanton & Elizabeth Stevens 2 July 1636
William Loseby & Winifred Davy 18 Sept. 1636
John Hallam & Sarah Morris 24 Oct. 1636
John Chamberlin & Elizabeth Turlangton 22 Jan. 1636
Thomas Vestue, batchelour, & Sarah Waddington 30 Apr. 1637
Guilhelm Winsor et Joan Sauage 25 June 1637
William Woodcocke & Mary Winby 2 Dec. 1637
William Presgrave & Ann Worthington 16 Apr. 1638
Edward Sugar, w., of Woolvy [Wolvey],
& Ann Winby, w., of Beeby, lic. [Leic.] 10 May 1638
John Kinge, husbandman, of Burton Overy,
& Margaret Dexter, spr. of Keame, lic. 29 July 1638
Thomas Dawkings & Grace Johnson, lic. 24 Aug. 1639
Richard Bawdricke & Chaterin Waddington 24 June 1640
Tho. Read & Emm Clay, lic. 25 Feb. 1640
Thomas Crofts & Emm Clebrooke, lic. 4 July 1641
William King & Ann Bright, lic. 30 Dec. 1641
Michael Briggs & Jane Skeath, lic. 24 Mar. 1641
Thomas Jarvis & Joane Gallard 20 Nov. 1642
William Breers & Margaret Walker 27 Dec. 1642
Willm Skeath & Elizabeth Cox 10 Jan. 1642
Stephen Hayles & Halse Jacombe 24 July 1647
Thomas Slater & Margery Sturges 12 Aug. 1647
William Whitty & Elizabeth Allot 11 May 1648
Robert Loseby & Elizabeth Sanderson 22 May 1648
John Wright & Elizabeth North 4 June 1648
Thomas Lewen & Frances Parr 8 June 1648
George Wright & Mary Winby 3 Nov. 1651
John Davie & Alse Palmar 13 Nov. 1651
Mr. Edward Wigley & Frances Chamberlin 20 Apr. 1652
James Cooper & Ann Clarke, w. 21 Sept. 1652
Richard Rigsbie & Alse Wood 25 Apr. 1653
Willm Tomson & Joyce Woodroffe 22 Nov. 1654
Charles Gilford & Alse Neale 5 Jan. 1654
John Elborrow & Joane White 5 Jan. 1654
Willia Burdet & Margery Bell 24 Apr. 1655
Christopher Davie & Joane Edwards 10 May 1655
Henry Greene & Sarah Bennet 14 July 1655
William Taylor & Mary Van 7 Nov 1655
Volume II.
Thomas Lee & Mary Woodcocke 12 Nov. 1657
William Coleman & Mary Gilford 20 May 1658
John Dankes & Anne Clarke 2 Nov. 1659
Christopher Smith & Anne Normanton 7 Nov. 1659
Thomas Normanton & Joan Jarviss 25 July 1660
Clement Beaumont & Mary Baxter 31 Mar. 1662
Richard Stinson & Mary Taylor 1 Apr. 1662
William King & Anne Read 24 Nov. 1663
Richard Brickwood & Isabell Smith 30 May 1664
[Willm ?] [——] & Margaret Chamberlane 31 May 1664
Robert Hutton & Mary Gulliver 24 June 1664
Francis Allin & Mary Coleman 26 Sept. 1664
William Newburn & Joan Kirke 31 Oct. 1664
William Smith & Pasche Tagge 25 Apr. 1665
Tho. Hudson & Mary Smaley 17 Sept. 1666
George Gilford & Margarett Plummer 29 Sept. 1666
Edward Gilford & Elizabeth Kemp 6 Oct. 1666
William Bennit & Alice Bennit 26 Feb. 1666
Richard Phillypot & Alice Tensbury 16 Apr. 1668
William Crofts & Mary Goddard 16 Mar. 1668
Robert Brigs & Dorothy Boston 1 May 1669
Thomas Woodcocke, jun., & Ann Goodale 4 May 1669
Everard Branson & Hanna Goddard 12 Apr. 1670
John Mather & Elizabeth Read 29 May 1673
William Wels & Bridget Wels 17 Oct. 1674
Nicolas Crafts & Alice Smith 17 Oct. 1675
Bartholomew Sutton & Elizabeth Hutton 12 May 1677
William Newby & Sarah Simkin 24 May 1677
John House & Mary Cartwright 29 May 1678
Phillip Summerfeild & Elizabeth Wood 20 Nov. 1678
Robert Thorp[?] & Susanna Wilford 19 June 1680
[The above entry has been partly crossed out].
Godhathheard Clark & Mary Taylor, w. 3 July 1681
Anthony Wright & Elizabeth Gilford 3 Feb. 1682
John Johnson & Joan Tyres 18 Feb. 1682
Daniel Goodman & Susanna Coleman 16 Aug. 1685
Charles Heailley [Healey] & Alicia Gilford 22 Feb. 1686
Nicolas Bowelley & Mary Jelley 30 Apr. 1687
[No Marriages recorded 1688 to 1695.]
Bartholomew Watts & Ann Turner, 9ber the 10th 10 Nov. 1696
[At this point the Register is very irregular, but, for convenience, the Marriage entries are given here in chronological order].
Charles Agur & Sarah Tompson 15 Jan. 1698
Wm. Cox & Mary French 26 Sept 1698
Jonathan Goddard & Mary Lee 9 Apr. 1700
John Ilson, weaver, & Jane Wright, both of Keyham 16 Jan. 1703
Willm Chamberlyn, labourer, & Jane Wredcalfe, both of Keyham 10 Feb. 1703
Job. Davy, carpenter, & Alice Tomson, both of Keyham 13 Feb. 1703
William Robinson & Ales Clarke, both of Keyham 8 May 1704
Mr. Luke Hutchinson, curate of Mountsorrel,
& Mrs. Jane Marriott, of the same 9 May 1705
Dionysius Kirke, of Humberston, & Alice Winterton 27 Nov. 1705
Thomas Redley, of Stoughton, & Grace Johnson, of Keyham 27 Nov. 1706
Thomas Ward & Eliz: Jervas, both of Keyham 27 Apr. 1707
John Crofts & Ann March, both of Keyham 2 Jan. 1707
John Mayn & Theophana Guilford, of this parish 22 July 1708
William Stevenson, of South Croxton, & Anne Lockton, of Keyham 4 Sept. 1712
John Hust & Catherin Davy, both of Keyham 26 Apr. 1713
Hamlett Clarke & Grace Peake, both of Keyham 3 May 1713
Audlin Cookson, of Hungarton, & Elizabeth Good [?], of Keyham 4 Oct. 1713
John Chamberlain & Frances Neal, of Keyham 9 Nov. 1713
Richard Peake & Ezeletbeth Fenbery [?] [blank]
Thomas Johnson, of Nottingham, & Barbara Woodcock, of Keyham 3 June 1714
Volume III.
Thomas Haterley & Elisebeth Fuckes [Fewkes] 7 July 1723
Thomas Adcock & Susanna Lee 2 Jan. 1723
Elxander Moure & Elsiebeth Cobley 5 Dec. 1723
Timethie Brouton & Elisebeth Briane 28 Jan. 1723
Robert Webster, of Houghton, & Jane Balderick, of Keam [Keyham] 30 Nov. 1727
John Conduit & Catherine Webster, both of Keyham 29 Sept. 1729
John Webster, of Humberston, & Jane Brownly, of Keyham 2 July 1730
Thomas Hallam, of Barrow-on-Soar,
& Mary Guilford, of Keame, p. Rothley 9 July 1730
Thomas Hill & Jane Hodgskin, both of Keyham 15 Nov. 1730
William Webster, of Oakham, co. Rutland, & Grace Ward, of Keyham 2 Sept. 1731
John Ridgeway, of Knighton, & Alice Bryan, of Keyham 10 Apr. 1732
Samuel Mayn & Eliz. Morris 23 Nov. 1732
Edward Brians & Ann Wright 26 Dec. 1734.
Wm. Robinson & Mary Webster [no date]
William Hall & Frances Darnell 2 May 1736
John King & Elizabeth Peake 28 Aug. 1740
Valerius Stephens & Elizabeth Scarborrow 13 Jan. 1741
Benjamin King & Elizabeth Bickardyke 6 Jan. 1742
Tho. Kilby & Jane Iliffe 7 Aug 1743
John Armstrong & Mary Lee 6 May 1745
Samuel Guilford & Mary Ward 4 Nov. 1745
Henry Guilford & Alice Davie 28 Jan. 1745
Wm. Berridge & Eliz. Hetterley 19 Apr. 1747
Wm. Butlin & Eliz. Summerfield 25 Dec. 1749
Thos. Moor & Mary Buttling 25 Dec. 1750
Wm. Needham, of Queniborough, & Ann Brian 10 Dec. 1752
Francis Graves & Mary Hall 17 June 1753
Thomas Godard, of Bushby, & Sarah Godard, of Keyham 20 Nov. 1753
William Pamer [Palmer?] & Mary Tiers, of Keyham 25 Dec. 1753
Volume IV.
[Unless otherwise described the contracting parties are invariably bachelors and spinsters and of Keyham parish after this date.]
John Cramp & Mary Pick 28 July 1754
William Webster & Mary Goddard 8 May 1755
Thos. Whitwell, of Groby, & Ann Needham 29 July 1755
Thomas Hill & Elizabeth Rodole 3 June 1759
Edward Newton & Grace Foster 18 Nov. 1760
John Parsons, of Hungarton, & Sarah Dilks 7 Dec. 1760
William Warner, of Hungarton, & Ann Somerfield 10 May 1761
William Webster & Mary Wade 23 May 1761
William Bryan & Elizabeth Oswin 27 Sept. 1761
John Clayton, of Barkby, & Elizabeth Brian 17 Jan. 1763
Thomas Hartopp & Elizabeth White, lic. 3 Apr. 1763
Thomas Steel & Elizabeth Clayton 29 Dec. 1763
William Whittle, of Barkby, & Ann King 21 Oct. 1764
William Moore & Elizabeth Cobley 16 Dec. 1766
Richard Moore & Elizabeth Watts 16 Dec. 1766
Samuel Bishop, of Birstall, & Mary King 13 Sept. 1767
John Barwell, of Scraptoft, & Mary Swanson 14 Feb. 1768
Jonathan Tylcote, of Market Harborough,& Elizabeth Bryan, lic. 15 Feb. 1768
Jacob Butteris & Sarah Bryan 10 Dec. 1769
William Webster, of Beeby, & Elizabeth Hill, w., lic. 3 Feb. 1767*
John Wildman & Elizabeth Hartopp 27 Feb. 1770
John Rule & Ann Hartop 21 Oct. 1770
John Clayton & Mary Clayton [signs Mary Gilford], lic. 2 June 1771
Volume V.
Francis Gruves, w., & Rachel Mallet, w. 3 Dec. 1771
William Summerfield & Grace Rattlif 8 Dec. 1771
George Woodford, of Beeby, & Mary Chamberlin 21 Apr. 1772
Thomas Wright & Ann Goddard 7 May 1772
John Lovett, of Burton Overy, & Bridget Webster, lic. 22 Sept. 1772
Daniel Ilson, of Keyham, & Elizabeth Parker, of Evington 2 Nov. 1772
William Astle, w., of Keyham, & Judah Coley, of Bushby 11 Oct. 1773
Thomas Allsop, of Wanlip, & Elizabeth Clayton, lic. 14 June 1774
George Trett, of Burton Overy, & Ann Sarson 4 Dec. 1774
*In this order in original.
John Ward, w., & Elizabeth Horsepool 27 Nov. 1775
Willm. White & Alice Hettrely 19 Dec. 1775
Henry Carter, of Keyham, & Alice Parsons, of Market Harborough 20 Oct. 1776
Willm. Watts, of Beeby, & Eliz. King 5 Jan. 1777
John Webster & Ann Harrison 8 June 1777
Joseph Pole & Elizabeth Ilson 28 Dec. 1777
Thomas Glover, of Twyford, & Susannah Heape 19 May 1778
Joseph Barnett, of Syston, & Eliz. Gilbert, lic. 9 Dec. 1779
Edward Bryan & Elizabeth King 14 Apr. 1780
Thomas Pywell & Rachel Gilbert 12 Nov. 1780
Thomas Pritty [signs Toms. Prattey], of Houghton-on-the-Hill,
& Elizabeth Clayton 21 Nov. 1782
Edward Brian & Ann Heape 12 June 1783
Henry Atkins & Elizabeth Webster 3 Oct. 1785
Thomas Heap, of Keyham, & Ann Peake, of Twyford, lic. 19 June 1786
John Rule & Mary Hollin 28 Sept. 1786
John Richardson & Elizabeth Clayton, lic. 8 Sept. 1788
Robert Aston, of Evington, & Elizabeth Palmer 30 Dec. 1788
Richard Moore & Sarah Bluntston 6 Oct. 1789
Thomas Richards & Mary Fairbrother 13 Dec. 1789
William Harrison, of Belgrave, & Mary Haywood 8 Feb. 1790
William Chambers, of Rearsby, & Mary Hartopp 2 June 1792
Thomas Darman & Sarah Palmer 4 Aug. 1793
William Webster & Sarah Mayes [signs Maye] 7 Dec. 1794
William Coley, of Bushby, & Mary Rule 14 Dec. 1794
Richard Norman, of Oadby, & Mary Clayton 5 Oct. 1795
John Goode, of Houghton, & Elizabeth Bilsdon 10 Apr. 1796
John Drake & Mary Oliver, lic. 9 May 1796
Edward Lewin, of Barkby, & Anna Clayton, lic. 3 Jan. 1797
William Hallam & Elizabeth Haywood 3 June 1797
Daniel Swift & Grace Newton 11 Dec. 1797
James Gamble, of Beeby, & Elizabeth Cartwright 16 Aug. 1802
Edward Gamble & Sarah Norman 22 Feb. 1803
John Tilley, of Scraptoft, & Elizabeth Smith 1 Dec. 1803
Thomas Jones, of Hugglescoate, p.Ibstock,
& Elizabeth Guilford, lic. 12 Aug. 1804
William Cartwright & Catharine King 6 Oct. 1804
Thomas Swift & Mary Webster 14 Oct. 1804
John Oliver, of Stoughton, & Eleanor Berridge, lic. 6 Feb. 1806
Robert Coleman & Anne Newton 24 June 1806
Jonathan King, of Beeby, & Mary Wildman, lic. [?]12 Feb. 1807
Robert Coleman & Ann Pawley 12 Oct. 1809
John Broughton & Mary Palmer 11 Dec. 1809
John Paul Quincey & Ann Palmer 25 Mar. 1810
John Pywell & Mary Brown 12 Oct. 1812
[Volumes VI. and VII., Baptisms and Burials only.]
Volume VIII.
Edward White & Mary Allen 14 Nov. 1813
Matthew Newbold & Margaret Hall 1 May 1815
George Kirk & Mary Ann Pole [signs Pool] 16 July 1815
William Swift & Mary Barber 27 Nov. 1815
John Burchnall, of Knossington, & Elizabeth Moseley, lic. 10 Jan. 1816
Thomas Allen, of Thurmasten, & Elizabeth Richardson, lic. 11 Jan. 1816
Thomas Gamble & Ann Walker 22 Jan. 1816
William Ward, of Hungarton, & Susanna Webster 25 Feb. 1816
William Kilby, of South Croxton, & Hannah Shuttlewood 2 Mar. 1816
Richard Wood & Catherine Atkins 18 Mar. 1816
Daniel Gamble and Elizabeth Haywood 15 Apr. 1816
William Ward, of Knighton, & Sarah Darman [signs Daram] 16 Nov. 1817
Daniel Dixon & Rebecca Scampton 23 Feb. 1818
Thomas Wells & Sarah Webster 24 Nov. 1818
Daniel Burchnall, of Cropston [in p.Thurcaston],
& Mary Moseley, lic. 24 Mar. 1818
Benjamin Sturgis & Sarah Atkins 17 May 1818
William Bates, of Hungarton, & Mary North 27 Mar. 1820
William Daines, of Scraptoft, & Diana Aston 19 Sept. 1820
William Swift & Mary Smith 1 Oct. 1821
Thomas Brown & Elizabeth Darman 8 Apr. 1822
John Heaseldine & Elizabeth Wells 22 Sept. 1823
William Wild, of Scraptoft, & Catharine Goodacre, lic. 21 Jan. 1824
Thomas Doman, of Whitwick, & Jane Furnefall 27 May 1824
John Gamble & Elizabeth White 22 Aug. 1825
Robert Pywell & Ann Plumbtree 1 Mar. 1826
James Knight & Susanna Cooke, lic. 22 May 1826
Jonathan Osborne, of Ibstock, & Sarah Moseley, lic. 14 Mar. 1831
James Heap & Ann Moseley, lic. 3 July 1832
Thomas Lander & Hannah Swift 19 Nov. 1832
William Simpson, of Barkby, & Jane Moore 18 Nov. 1833
Joseph Wallin & Susannah Cook 19 Nov. 1833
Thomas Martin & Frances Atkins 26 Dec. 1836
[There are no Marriages recorded in 1837 prior to July.]
