The parish registers of Gatton, co. Surrey / transcribed and edited by W. Bruce Bannerman.

Date:
1908
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: The parish registers of Gatton, co. Surrey / transcribed and edited by W. Bruce Bannerman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    5/94
    preface* 'T'HE Registers of Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials from 1599 to 1812 are contained in four volumes. Register I. is a parchment volume stitched in a parch- ment cover. On the front of the cover is written : “No. 1. | 1599 to 1715. | This Register contains the Baptisms | Mar- riages & Burials, indiscriminately | inserted during the above period as | the same occurred. | G. N. Smith, | Curate.” On the inside of the cover the following is written:— R. Rande Edward Shove . Benjamin Shove Robert Pepys . “ Rectors of Gatton. . . 1616 from cir. 1616 to 1646 from cir. 1648 to 1666 from cir. 1668 to 1715 [Here follows a blank space.] Thomas Pooler ...... 1774 to 1809 Mr. [blank] Paget ...... 1809 to [Hank] [Here follows a blank space.] C. Hodgson . . . . . . . [blank] to 1833 J. C. Wynter 1833 to 1878 [wc]$ E. P. Larken 1878 [sic] to 1894 Alfd G. Rogers [The present Rector.—Ed.] . 1894 to The Register measures about inches in length by about 8 inches in width. It has suffered very much from the effects of damp, and several of the entries are very difficult to decipher. On the back of the cover, the other way up of the volume, is printed in old text: “The Register Booke of | Gatton given by Raphe | Rand parson there 1604.” * The Rector of Gatton writes that J. C. Winter died in 1877; that William Paget was Rector 1809 to 1815; John Deake 1815 to 1827; and C. Hodgson 1827 to 1833.—Ed.