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General register

Catalogue reference: PAR255/1/1/1

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This record is a file about the General register dating from 1558-1701.

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Reference
PAR255/1/1/1
Title
General register
Date
1558-1701
Description

The volume was repaired, probably at the same time as it was rebound, but several pages have been left loosely inserted. The first two folios are mutilated and illegible in places. The dates on the cover and on several of the pages are in error.

Page:

1-78 C; Jan 1558 - Nov 1650

24 note that no register was kept between 1595 and 1603

79-105 M; Apr 1559 - Aug 1653

88 note no register was kept between 4 May 1595 and [May] 1603

90 note that in 1609 'the visitation began when for that year there was no register kept'; 1609

105 note by Adam Cartright, town clerk, that he was chosen as keeper of the register 'as my grandfather, my own father and I have done a 100 years and upwards', and sworn before Col Anthony Stapley, 24 Oct 1653

105-109 C; Jan 1651 - Sep 1653

110-115 B; Apr 1644 - Sep 1653

fo 59 blank

116-148 B; Jan 1588 - Mar 1644

122 note no register was kept between 4 May 1595 and [May] 1603

149 note by Anthony Stapley that Adam Cartright was sworn before him as register; 24 Oct 1653

150-222 C; Oct 1653 - Aug 1700

223-239 M; Nov 1653 - Apr 1701; includes contracts of marriage Oct 1653 - Aug 1659

240-273 B; Oct 1653 - Mar [1700]

Held by
East Sussex Record Office
Former department reference
PAR255/1/1/1
Language
English
Custodial history

The register was published in 1932: see Henry D Roberts, & apos;The Parish Register of Brighton' (Cambridge, 1932)

Record URL
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Series information

PAR255/1

Incumbent: registers

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366,693 records

This record is held at East Sussex Record Office

347 records

Within the fonds: PAR255

PARISH OF BRIGHTON ST NICHOLAS

113 records

Within the series: PAR255/1

Incumbent: registers

14 records

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General register