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Parish Registers of Battlefield, Shropshire24-01-2016

The Parish Registers of Battlefield commence 24 Sept., 1663. The earliest Register is a paper-book, and extends from 1663 to 1747, it contains Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, and also a list of Churchwardens and Overseers from 1665 to 1687. The second volume is on parchment, and consists of a copy of the foregoing paper volume made in I749 by Leonard Hotchkiss, Incumbent of Battlefield and Headmaster of Shrewsbury School. It also contains Marriages from 1749 to 1753, and Baptisms and Burials from 1749 to 1812, in the handwriting of Leonard Hotchkiss, Beaumont Dixie, and Edward Williams, successively Incumbents.

At the end of this volume are several terriers, statistics of population, and lists of curates and clerks; also a tabulated statement of the annual number of Baptisms and Burials from 1663 to 1812. Vol. III. contains Banns and Marriages from 1754 to 1774, only 8 in number; at the end is a tabulated statement of the annual number of Marriages from 1666 to 1812. Vol. IV. contains Marriages from 1814 to 1830, only 5 in number. The volumes in use now contain Baptisms from 1813, Burials from 1813, and Marriages from 1840, all to the present time. There is also in the Chest a volume of Churchwardens' and Poor Accounts, extending from 1772 to 1824. All the volumes are complete, and in good condition.

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