| Matlock
St Giles' Church Baptisms, 1637 - 1856 |
| Baptisms have taken place at Matlock Parish
Church for hundreds of years |
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Searchable by date.
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The parish register begins with the statement:
A true Regester of all the Christenings;
Marriages; and Burialls: in the in the P[arish]
of Matlock since 1637 September 29
| HENRYE Smith : Rector. |
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Robert Oates }
Henry Knowls } Churchwardens |
1637 Christenings
September 29 |
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- Bernard Freeman of Manitoba, Canada worked on many of
the baptisms for Matlock St Giles' that are presented on
this website during 20001/2*, with additional years added
in 2005. His work was extracted from the BTs. There have
been further additions to fill in the gaps and corrections
made by the web mistress since then.
- In 2018 a further 406 baptisms were added from the parish
register to fill most for the years between 1660 and 1672.
This work was undertaken by the web mistress and completed
in 2019 when the onsite transcripts were also taken back
to the beginning of the parish register (i.e. 1637). An
addition to some early sections of the parish register
are the Rector's and Churchwardens' names, shown where
they appear at the bottom of each page in the parish register.
- The remaining gaps in the baptisms were transcribed
and added to the site in April 2020.
- Whilst every effort has been made to be as accurate as
possible, it is recognised that individual entries may
be open to different interpretation. Please get in touch
if your research does not agree with an entry published
here as we would like to know.
- Having said that, some pages are very hard to
read. This may be because of the ink that was used, the
quality of the microfilms or perhaps from wear and tear.
The earliest records, kept by Henry Smith, are easy to
read but there are parts from the Shelmerdine era, i.e.
during the Civil War, where
the names and abodes are difficult to decipher (see Rectors
for more about these two men).
- Names are shown as spelt rather than as they are written
today. For example, sometimes the Christian name John was
written as Jhon and similarly the surname Johnson was recorded
as Jhonson.
- The earliest baptism transcripts did not include whether
a child was the son or daughter. All baptisms up to and
including 1774 now include this information, as the relationship
was not always clear from the name alone.
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Also see:
About St Giles.
Strays
- Matlock people baptised elsewhere
View even more about Matlock's oldest church by clicking on
the images below:
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Background info:
- The following films, where known, were used for the BT transcripts*:
LDS #428924 (1662 -1812), LDS #498102 (1813 -1856).
The films may be viewed at LDS centres throughout the world and
were filmed by the LDS Church from the Bishops Transcripts held
at Staffordshire RO, England. Derbyshire Record Office holds the
parish register.
*The BT transcripts were initially done for John Palmer's Wirksworth
website. The information was subsequently added to and is
published here with Bernie's kind permission and is presented here
as close to Bernie's original work as possible. Bernie gave a copy
of his work to the LDS Church in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
- Ann Andrews contributed minor amendments and additions to the
original transcripts when they were first done, with further
more major additions in 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016 and 2017 which
have all been incorporated into the information on these pages.
Transcripts from 2018 onwards, i.e. for the years 1637-1672 and
later years where there had previously been a gap, are © Ann
Andrews and are from the parish register. 1832 transcripts © Susan
Tomlinson.
- All information is held by Ann in databases of her own design.
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