Genealogy Ebooks The ancient parish of Ripon was an extensive one embracing the following :—Aismunderby with Bondgate, Aldfield, Bewerley, Bishop Monkton, Bishopside, High and Low; Bishop Thornton, Bishopton, Clotherholme, Dacre, Eavestone, Givendale, Grantley-with-Skelding, Hewick Bridge, Copt Hewick, Ingerthorpe, Markington-with-Wallerthwaite, Newby-with-Mulwith, Nunwick-with-Howgrave, Pateley, Ripon, Sawley, Sharow, Shelding, Skelton, North Stainleywith-Sleningford, Studley Roger, Studley Royal, Sutton Grange, Warsil, Westwick, Whitcliffe-with-Thorpe and…]]> The Records of Burials in the " God's Acre " and "Church of the Holy Trinity," Stratford-upon-Avon, from 26th March, 1558, to 20th March, 1652-3. Occupy 145 pages of the first or oldest volume of the Parish Registers (described in the volume of Baptisms issued as No. VI of the publications of the Parish Register Society, in 1897), and are of very great interest when we consider that they give us the names of venerable inhabitants of Stratford-upon-Avon and its hamlets, with whom Shakespeare must have been familiarly acquainted,…]]> The first contains Baptisms, Burials and Marriages from 1538 to 1668, the second contains similar entries from 1669 to 1769 (Marriages to 1754), and the third comprises the period 1770 to 1812. All are of parchment leaves, and are in good condition. Volumes four and five contain Marriages 1754 to 1812. The first Volume, which is now for the first time printed, contains 127 parchment leaves, that is, 254 pages.]]> The old book is 1 inches high by 8 inches wide, is of parchment in thin covers of the same, and having been kept folded longitudinally in a damp place, is very dilapidated, the outer half of the fir£ eleven leaves is lost and the writing on the other half is either quite obliterated or nearly so, what is left, is very rotten and mildewed.]]> The Book of the Parish Register is 12 inches high by 7inches wide, and contains 40 and half parchment leaves, with four paper leaves (two at each end) within stiff parchment-covered board covers. On the front cover is " Register of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1718 to 1812".]]> St James's is a central district in the City of Westminster, London, forming part of the West End. In the 17th century the area developed as a residential location for the British aristocracy and around the 19th century was the focus of the development of gentlemen's clubs. Anciently part of the parish of St Martin in the Fields, much of it formed the parish of St James from 1685 to 1922.]]> St Martin-in-the-Fields is an English Anglican church at the north-east corner of Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, London. It is dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours. There has been a church on the site since the medieval period. The present building was constructed in a Neoclassical design by James Gibbs in 1722–1726.]]> Includes: Hinton-on-the-Green, Aston Sommerville, Lemington Parva, Buckland, Weston Subedge, Todenham and many more from 1539 – 1812.]]> It is of the highest importance that we should not delay in printing the Registers as rapidly as possibly, as this is the only way in which their contents can be effectively preserved. Greater care undoubtedly is taken of these invaluable personal records than was formerly the case, but loss of Registers still goes on, and it may be mentioned that in more than one instance Registers have been lost, or their condition has seriously deteriorated, since they were transcribed, although it is but ten years since this series of printed Parish Registers…]]> In 1110 the Monks of the New Minster, which had been founded by King Alfred, removed outside the City, and the site became the parish of St. Maurice, a Norman arch, presumably part of the Minster, being still in the tower of the church. About the fifteenth century, Winchester went through a time of great financial depression and numbers of the small churches fell into ruin. At the beginning of the sixteenth century the parishes of St. Mary, Tanner Street, and St. Pancras, Wongar Street, were joined to St. Maurice, and St. Rumwold to St. Mary…]]> Three of the five parishes which are included in this volume St. Ewe, Lanlivery and Menheniot—afford useful material for the genealogist ; St. Stephen's is rendered valuable by the inclusion of entries not to be found in the registers, while St. Winnow, apart from its own intrinsic value, is a useful supplement to Lostwithiel. It is with no little satisfaction that the Editors welcome Canon Hammond amongst the list of contributors. The prefatory note which he has furnished and the extreme care with which he has extracted the Menheniot…]]> Genealogists, not only in Cornwall, but throughout the English world, will appreciate this systematic attempt to render available the information contained in parish registers, which to most students are at present almost sealed books. These printed copies will preserve the information they contain, even though the originals be lost by carelessness, theft, or fire. Moreover, registers in the past have been sometimes tampered with for wrongful purposes, as was done.in the recent Shipway pedigree case, in which forged entries, both early and late,…]]> The Parishes of Upton and those of Blewbury and Thorpe, have been so intermingled in times gone by, that it is difficult now to separate the entries that belong to one from the other. In former times Upton was a dependency or chapelry of Blewbury, but since 1861, Upton and Aston Upthorpe (or Thorpe, or Throp for short) have been constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish. Under these circumstances it is not surprising that the Registers of Upton are not very continuous, and that frequent gaps are to be found. It is probable that the Registers…]]> If anything at all is known of a family it is usually known where to look for most of its baptisms or burials—but this rule does not apply to its matrimonial alliances. Hence the need of first printing the marriages of the whole of each county, and so not only preserving that portion of the Registers from the risk of total loss, but making them more accessible to the genealogical student.]]> The earlier entries here given have been extracted from the Bishop's Transcripts at Hereford. It will be noticed that for a few years no returns have been found, owing, in some instances, to their having been either lost or mislaid, and in others, perhaps, to there having been no return to make. The only family in the position of gentry resident in the parish during the period over which these Registers extend was that of Monington, which, as well as a considerable number of the other residents in the parish, belonged to the Roman Catholic…]]> Six years have elapsed since tlie first volume of Devonshire Marriage Registers was issued and during those years the work has been practically at a standstill, in strange contrast to the adjoining counties of Cornwall, Somerset, and Dorset, where the Marriage Registers of 133, 107 and 58 parishes respectively have now been printed. This lack of progress in Devon has been due partly to the death of Mr. W. P. W. Phillimore to whose inception the entire Series is due and who edited the first volume, but chiefly to the poor support forthcoming from…]]> For this volume the Register of St. Edward's has been chosen, and it is believed that it will prove of interest to members of the University as well as to the townsmen. It is intended to continue this arrangement, and Volume II will contain the Marriage Register of St. Sepulchre, which is already in print, and which, it is hoped, will be followed by Conington and other county parishes. It may be well to record here that some particulars of the Transcripts of Registers of the town of Cambridge will be found in Mr. A. Gibbons' " Ely Episcopal…]]> The Parish registers of Cambridge are, on the whole, unusually early and well preserved. One only of those referring to the thirteen old parishes of the town (viz. that of St Andrew the Great, commencing about 1635) starts from as late a date as the seventeenth century; and no less than ten of them commence in 1567 or earlier.]]> Vol. 1. consists of fourteen leaves of parchment, with vellum covers. Baptisms, 1634 to 1675 ; Marriages, 1634 to 1639 ; Burials, 1634 to 1695, Vol. II. consists of twenty-five leaves of paper, three of which being blank are pasted to the parchment covers. Baptisms, 1648 to 1725 ; Marriages, 1695 to 1709, and four in the year 1724 which appear also in the next register ; Burials, 1695 to 1726. Vol, III. consists of Baptisms,1711 to 1806; Marriages, 1711 to 1752 ; Burials, 1724 to 1806. Vol. IV. consists of Banns and Marriages combined, 1754 to…]]> Ealing included the populous hamlet of Old Brentford until 1828, the population of the latter, which then became a separate parish, being approximatel as five to three of the former. According to Faulkner's history, this parish contained 700 houses in 1795, of which 500 were in Old Brentford. A list of the worthies who have been resident here would be a lengthy one. Some interesting works dealing with that subject have been published. During the the latter half of 1665 about 250 persons died here of the plague. The letters "O.B.," "N.B."…]]>