Volume I. contains Baptisms 1557-1656 (one, the posthumous child of Wm. Cloudesley, Rector). Burials 1557-1655, and Marriages 1558-1653. It consists of 11 parchment leaves of irregular sizes about 13 by 5 1/8 – ¼ inches. Half the first leaf (blank) is cut away longitudinally. Leaf 9, most of which was cut away is now neatly restored; it is blank save a memorandum of the admission of William Cloudesly as Rector, Jan. 28th, 1645, followed by a line in Greek of which the meaning is obscure. Most of the last page is blank. The book is a transcript down to 1600; its condition is good, some faded entries, but mostly legible. Binding limp parchment, still whole. The present Rector, the Rev. James Tunbridge, has had Vols. I. and II. repaired and strongly and excellently bound in stout and ample parchment boards, and well protected by several blank leaves at each end; a most commendable achievement.
Volume II. contains Baptisms, or Births, and Burials 1654-1783, Marriages 1655-1751, and consists of 16 parchment leaves about 12¼ by 9 inches, varying somewhat. The first cover is lost, resulting in the first page being rubbed and badly faded, and a large piece torn out (now neatly repaired) with portions of several entries. It is rather stained, otherwise in fair condition; now rebound with Volume I.
Volume III. Marriages 1756-1812. Usual printed forms and one leaf of stamped paper. Sewn in at the beginning are 5 large parchment leaves, of which one and one-third record Baptisms 1784-1812, 1½ record Burials 1784-1811, the rest blank. Also one loose stamped paper leaf of (duplicated) Baptisms 1784-97.
Volume IV. Marriages 1815-36, printed forms.
The Bishops’ Transcripts preserved in the Archdeacon’s Registry, 29, Friar Lane, Leicester, or (marked *) at Lincoln, exist for the years: 1577-8, 1604*, 1606 to 1609*, 1612-13-25 to ‘27-32 to ‘34-36 to ‘38-61 to ‘63-72 to ‘82-85-87-88-90 to ‘92-94 to 1700.
These abstracts Lave been made by Mr. E. K. Elliott, of Leicester, and are printed by permission of the Rev. James Tunbridge, the Rector.
Volume I.
“Wiverbie Ano Dom 1557 Leicet[er]shire.”
[First entry] “Thomas Adcock buried” 14 Nov. 1557
“Joan Haule the elder maried” 14 May 1558
[21 Jan. 1575, Simon Haule bap., & bu. 1583.]
“Joan Haule the younger maried” 15 Sept. 1559
[15 July 1580, Thomas Haule bap. 8 Apr. 1581 Ranold Haule bur.]
[Baptisms do not give parents names, so don’t help here.]
Roger Rilye & Ellen Neal 16 Nov. 1559
“An[n] Messam maried” 22 Jan. 1560
John Levit & Isabell Freema[n] 27 Nov. 1561
Thomas Walker [&] Magdalin Gleg 30 May 1562
Hugh Kellam & Agnes Jackson 28 Nov. 1563
John Jackso[n] & Kat[h]erin[e] Jacline 4 Dec. 1563
[None in 1564-5.]
Thomas Hardall & Isabell Enys [? his name is blurred and an “s” [?] is written above indefinitely] 14 Nov. 1566
Richard Dring & Alice Adcok 27 Nov. 1567
[None in 1568-71]
Thomas Harwell [? Hanvell] & Dorothy Sickleprice 13 Oct. 1572
John Jackson & Isabell Sprecklye 17 Nov. 1572
[None in 1573-4.]
John Hutchin [Rector] & Joan Redford [she was bur. 5 Feb. 1584] 28 Apr.1575
Richd. Freema[n] & Agnes Scamto[n] 2 May 1575
Edward Hickso[n] & Joan Bradgbie 15 Nov. 1577
[None In 1578-80.]
Wm. Flower & An[n] Freeman 7 Apr. 1581
Za[c]karia[h] Jenkinso[n] & Dorothy Kelston 3 Oct. 1582
John Mean & Alice Haule 5 Oct. 1584
Georg[e] Morison & Margerie Nyccols 8 Oct. 1584
Wm. Workma[n] & Joan Rilie 17 July 1585
John Hutchin [The Rector, see 15751 & An[n} Shipward 12 Sept. 1585
Ralph Green & Margaret Rilie 30 Aug. 1586
John Ward & Ellen Rilie 29 Sept. 1586
Robert Rest & Sabell [? Isabell] Cooke 22 Nov. 1586
Thomas Worsdale & Eliz. Fillma[n] 21 Apr. 1587
[None in 1588-92]
John Williams & Cleme[n]t [?]Glover 23 Oct. 1593
Christopher Moriso[n] & Isabel Alin 13 Nov. 1595
John Morison & Mary Ashbroke 31 Jan. 1596
[None in 1597-9.]
Wm. Suffill & Theodocia Hutchin [Rector’s d., bap. 8 Mar. 1577] 24 May 1600
Thomas Shelton & Margerie Winslow 1 Feb. 1600
Laurence Reines & Mary Kellam 25 June 1603
John Goodman & Kezia Hutchin 2 July 1603
Peter Crosse [?Crofts, altered] & Lidia [so spelt in baptism] Hutchin 7 Aug. 1603
Bartelmew Wat[c]horn & Mary Fetherston [no day] Aug. 1604
Thomas Smith & Alice Killinglie 1 Oct. 1606
John Stan[n?]edge & Margaret Winslow 27 Nov. 1606
Christopher Peck & Jane Stooks 2 May 1607
Thomas Quenniborow & Margaret Kingsonson [or Ringson?] 26 May 1607
Thomas Teler & Sara[h] Robinson 16 Oct. 1608
Bartholomew Sprecklie & Alice Rudkin 24 Nov. 1608
[None in 1609-10]
Wm. Day & Alice Day 6 June 1611
Thomas Sprecklye & Ruth Teat 25 Sept. 1611
George Boore & Priscilla Hutchin 26 Sept. 1611
Wm. Benit & Alice Stookes 28 Oct. 1611
John Hutchin [? Rector’s third venture] & Dorothy Wells 29 June 1612
Thomas Spencer & Bridget Whithead 22 July 1613
Robert More & Elizabeth Frear 19 Oct. 1614
Thomas Spreckley & Ruth Hutchin 7 May 1615
Robert Borrow & Elizabeth Wilfford 19 Oct. 1615
[None in 1616-18]
Wm. Worthe & Agnes Henson 26 June 1619
James Levitt & Francis Archer 2 Nov. 1619
Wm. Henson & Sara[h] Hutchin 26 Sept. 1620
Christopher Peck & Bri[d]git Sharpe 20 Aug. 1622
George Tayler & Eliz. Fetherston 7 Aug. 1625
[“John Hutchin, clerke & parson, of Wyverby, was buried 3rd June, 1625.”]
John Castledyne & Alice Morrison 8 May 1627
Wm. Henson & Joan Smyth 25 Nov. 1627
Arnou[l]de [Arnold] Marson & Ann Gelstropp 25 Feb. 1627
George Bell & Joan Race 24 Oct. 1629
George Snoden & Alice Marson 25 May 1630
Robert Brystowe and Sara[h] Greenewod 17 Aug. 1630
Thomas Smyth & Margaret Torner 21 Dec. 1630
Thomas Hides & Katharine Durham 24 Nov. 1631
[She died 1632.]
Robert Henson & Dorothy Finne 20 June 1633
Thomas Hydes & Anna Franklin 17 July 1633
Anthony Hayes & Elizabeth Kitchin 26 Apr. 1636
George Lacy, vintener, & Alice Bonnet, both of Melton [Mowbray] 29 Dec. 1636
Joseph Storer, of Ruddington, w., & Mary Orson, of W., s. 1 Dec. 1638
Robert Dawson, of Melton [Mowbray], labourer, & Agatha Hauley, of W., S. 24 June 1640
Thomas Wilson, of Melton, labourer, & Mary Humberston, of W., s. 11 Nov. 1641
Wm. Barseby, of Garthorpe, & Eliz. Compton, of W. 16 Nov. 1641
[None in 1642-45.]
Henry Gamble & Ann Smith 30 April 1646
Thomas Greene & Eliz. Tharpe 6 Nov. 1646
[None in 1646-50.]
Richard Baxter & Eliz. Mott 1 Apr. 1651
John Orton & Margaret Wright 10 Apr. 1651
George Hubbert, of W., & Eliz. Banes, of Burton Laz[ars] [blank] 1652
Thos. Fairechild, of Hambledon, & Margaret Smith, of Exom [?Exton co. Rutland] 5 May 1653
John Parsons, of Stapleford, & Eliz. Bishop, of Kirby [Bellers] 17 May 1653
Volume II.
Thomas Money, husbandman, & Eliz. Hackett 1 Nov. 1655
Wm. Hackett, husbandman, & Eliz. Story, s. 13 Feb. 1655
[Torn off]—bard [seems to be faintly visible], & Katherine Hutching 23 May 1659
[The missing name may be Walter Hubbard. Susannah, d. of Walter Hubbard, & Katharine, his wife, was bap. 9 June. 1661]
John Pearson, of Wymondham, & Dorothy Kellam, of Stapleford 16 Oct. 1660
John Greene & Susanna Swift 26 Dec. 1661
[None in 1662-67.]
John Jackson & Alice Spreckly, both of Freeby 2 Mar. 1668
[None in 1669-70.]
Tho. Holt & Eliz. Cook, both of Melton [Mowbray] 10 June 1671
John Kellam & Ellen Chinnery, both of Burton Lazars 17 July 1673
John Edgton & Eliz. Baxter 15 Apr. 1675
John Wyer, of Stonesby, & Eliz. Jackson, of Freeby 7 Oct. 1678
John Holewell, of Twyford, & Ann Dobbs, of Marefield, p. Tilton 8 Sept. 1680
John Cooke & Mary Dickens, both of Burton 28 Oct. 1680
John Walton, of Burton Lazars, & Unica Tarry, of Melton 22 Nov. 1682
Everard Shepperson & Mary Jackson 26 Jan. 1683
William Dickins, of Melton, glazier, & Eliz. Hely 5 Feb. 1684
John Hacket & Susan Awwood, both of Melton 11 May 1685
John Holwell, of Twyford, & Hannah Kellam, of Burton 17 May 1685
[None in 1686-8.]
Thos. Wilford & Sarah Ryley, of Coston 20 May 1689
Henry Bell, of Stoke, & Ann Jackson, of Freeby 25 June 1689
John Walton, of Burton Lazars, & Anne Harrison 19 Nov. 1691
Wm. Percivall, of Freeby, & Anne Dent, of Whissendine 29 July 1695
Wm. Killingley, of Stonesby, & Mary Hayes, of W. 13 Jan. 1695
Hugh Muston, of Freeby, & Eliz. Jackson, of W. 11 Apr. 1697
Benjamin Symkin of Thromarston [? Thurmaston] & Anne Hacket of W. 24 June 1697
Wm. Cumberland & Eliz. Hacket, of W. 13 June 1698
[None in 1699-1701.]
Wm. Peet, of Willoughby, & Eliz. Hubbard, of W. 4 Oct. 1702
William Ward & Eleanor Hackett, both of W. 27 Apr. 1703
Wm. Fairbrother, of Brentingby, & Sarah Marson, of W. 2 May 1704
Wm. Fairbrother, of Brentingby, & Isabell Hely, of W. 31 Oct. 1705
John Burgess & Ann Worsdale, both of W. 18 Apr. 1706
Wm. Norborow, of W., & Ann Bellamy, of Buckminster 13 Nov. 1707
John Lambert, of Melton Mowbray,
& Catherine Rotheram, of Wilford, co. Nottm. 9 Oct. 1708
Mr. Tho. Sprigge, merchant from Maryland,
& Mrs. Ann Osborn, of Coston, co. Leic. 7 July 1709
Robert Ward, of Wymondham, & Eliz. Thorp, of Coston 7 July 1709
[None in 1710-11.]
Wm. Johnson, of Nottingham, & Eliz. Wright, of Melton 7 May 1712
Richard Cook & Eleanor Day, of Wymondham, w. 18 Sept. 1712
Samuel Peers, of Wymondham, & Eliz. Scarborow 2 Dec. 1714
Andrew Bell, of Little Cropsal [Cropwell Butler] co. Nottm.,
& Mary Hayne, of Garthorpe, co. Leic. 27 Apr. 1714
[None in 1715-21.]
Joseph Sharp, of Gt. Dalby, & Eliz. Hubbard, of W., w. 1 July 1722
[None in 1723-24.]
Joseph Watkin & Nancy Davy 8 July 1725
Thomas Steel & Mary Harris 4 Nov. 1725
[None in 1726-28.]
Wm. Smith & Eliz. Watkin 20 July 1729
John Raven & Catherine Thompson 14 Oct. 1731
Willm Brice & Jane Wortley 25 Nov. 1732
Wm. Hubbard & Eliz. Dennis 15 May 1733
W.[sic] Fairbrother & Eliz. Hubbard [Eliz. wife of Wm. Fairbrother,
of Brentingby, was bur. 7 May, 1755] 10 Dec. 1734
[None in 1735-37.]
Thomas Roberts & Mary Wadkin 16 Jan. 1738
[None in 1739-45.]
“No Marriages, Baptismes, Burialls in the year 1745.”
John Kirck & Eliz. Burgas 11 Nov. 1746
[None in 1747-48]
Zachariah Wright & Mary Atkin 8 June 1749
Mr. John Fellows, of Nottm., & Mary Sharp, of Freeby 1 May 1751
Robert Judd, of Melton [Mowbray] & Eliz. Goy, of Nipton [Knipton] 1 Sept. 1751
“Married 1772 none.”
[None in 1752-55.]
Volume III.
Wm. Shepherds, p. Thorpe Arnold, & Mary Hickson 19 Aug. 1756
John Burgess, of W., & Margaret Herring, p. Brentingby 9 Dec. 1756
Wm. Gill & Eliz. Shepherd 18 Mar. 1726
Wm. Gale, p. Garthorpe, & Ann Hubbard 3 May 1756
Wm. Smith & Margaret Hubbard 26 Jan. 1763
Richard Rodwell, p. Gaddesby, & Ruth Hickson, lic. 13 Sept. 1764
[None in 1765-68.]
Wm. Hubbard of W., & Eliz. Preston of Gunthorpe, co. Rutland lic. 16 May 1769
[None in 1770-78.]
Wm. Bass & Sarah Story 15 Feb. 1779
James Holmes, p. Waltham, & Eliz. Bass 3 May 1781
Richard Palthorp, p. Harlaxton, co. Linc., & Mary Wright 20 May 1782
Wm. Morrison, of Brentingby,
& Eliz. Smith [In the Register, a stamp pinned in.] 27 Mar. 1786
[The next 7 entries are on a loose stamped sheet.]
Thomas Musson, p. Great Dalby, & Eliz. Wadkin 12 May 1788
Wm. Harby, of Scalford, & Margaret Smith 26 Nov. 1788
John Jorden, of Hoby, & Ann Gill 1 June 1789
John Harby, of Scalford, & Ann Bass 1 June 1789
Wm. Hoden & Mary Watkin 25 Dec. 1790
Wm. Blount, w., & Ann Simpson. w., lic. 31 Oct. 1792
[This last one is in the Register unstamped.]
John Smith & Eliz. Hubbard 18 Dec. 1793
Alexander Tinkler, of Waltham, & Ann Burgess 10 Feb. 1794
Francis Simpson, p. Burrough, co. Leic. [?Burrow-on-Hill], w.,
& Sarah Bass, S., lic. 14 Mar. 1793
Norris Green, of Melton Mowbray, & Sarah Watkin 2 Feb. 1795
John King, of Harby, & Frances Watkin 25 May 1795
[None in 1796-1807.]
Wm. Garner, of Hoby, & Sarah Gill 7 Nov. 1808
[None in 1809-10.]
Thomas Brown, p. Goadby Marwood, w., & Jane Hickling, lic. 25 Mar. 1811
Matthew Lyne Selby, of Sewstern, p. Buckminster,
& Ann Hubbard, lic. 1 Jan. 1812
[None in 1813-14.]
Volume IV.
Alexander Tinckler, w., & Hannah Moore, w. 18 Dec. 1815
Edward Smith of Brentingby & Margaret Tinkler, consent of parents 4 Dec. 1816
John Hodget, of Kinolton, & Sarah Watkin, consent of parents 13 Jan. 1817
Wm. Bates, of Wymondham & Eliz. Tinkler, lic., consent of parents 7 July 1817
[None in 1818-20.]
Wm. Judd, husbandman, & Lydia Kempe 15 Jan. 1821
[None in 1822-24.]
John Swift, of Thorpe Arnold, husbandman, & Jane Mackley 3 Jan. 1825
[None in 1826-30.]
Wm. Frisby & Rebecca Chamberlin [signs Chamberlain] 26 Sept. 1831
George Flint & Ann Fox 3 Oct. 1831
[None in 1832-35.]
Thomas Morrison & Eliz. Smith 26 May 1836
Wm. Richardson, of Melton Mowbray, & Amey Gumby [?Gunby] 28 Dec. 1836
[No more marriages until 1840.]
