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Gc 942,47019 Aalp v.l 1379279 GENEALOGY COLLECTION I ALLENCOUNTYPUBLICLIBRARY 3 1833 00728 9678 WORCESTERSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS I. PHILLIMORES PAJIISH REGISTER SERIES. VOL.XXII.(WORCESTERSHIRE,VOL.I.) One hundredandfiftyprinted. : Wo rcestersh re i Parish Registers, Carriages. Edited by W. P. W. PHILLIMORE, M.A., B.C.L., AND W. F. CARTER, B.A. VOL. I. XonDon Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. 124, Chancery Lane. 1901. Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2010 witii funding from Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center http://www.archive.org/details/worcestershirepa01phil ; PRE FACE J The Editors have now the pleasure of issuing a volume ^ of Worcestershire Marriage Registers, and they propose to v^ continue the series in succeeding volumes. They will be vTX glad to receive offers of assistance in the work of transcrip- "^ni tion, since only by volunteer help is it possible to print to ^ any large extent our ancient parish registers. The present volume, though complete in itself, forms one of a series which now includes many other English counties and genealogists, not only in Worcestershire, but throughout the whole English world, will appreciate this systematic effort to render generally available the information contained in parish registers, which to all intents, save to avery few expert enthusiasts, are still 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, were inserted in several Gloucestershire parish registers. In several instances where registers have been printed, as a consequence, volumes which had been supposed to be lost have been discovered and subsequently printed, thus shewing how desirable it is to make public by means of the printing press these ancient records. 3^S.*2^9 J^ The registers have been transcribed by the Rev. J. H. Bloom, Rev. Gordon H. Poole, Rev. F. W. Quilter, Rev. W. Holden, Rev. H. Newton, Rev. F. Smith, Rev. Dr. J. Chafy, and Rev. J. H. L. Booker. The reader is also indebted to the clergy, who have most willingly concurred in allowing the registers to be printed. Their names are mentioned under their respective parishes. Every care has been exercised in the transcription ofthe copy, and in many cases the proofs have been collated with — VI the original registers. Still errors may have crept in, from the difficulty ofdistinguishing certain letters, such as c and t, u, m, n, and i, K and R, O and C, etc. It must also be borne in mind that the existing early registers are themselves but transcripts from the original paper registers, made under the order of Elizabeth, in 1597. The entries have been reduced to a common form, and the following abbreviations adopted : vv,=widowerorwidow. d.==daughterof. s.=spinster, single woman, p.=ofthe parish of. orson of. dioc.=in the diocese of. b.=bachelor or single co.==in the county of. man. /?^.=marriage licence. It must be remembered that these printed abstracts of marriage registers are not "evidence " in the technical sense. Certified copies must still be obtained when evidence of a marriage is needed for proving a pedigree in a Court of law, or when registering it at Heralds' College. For such certi- ficates application must be made to the clergy in charge of the original registers. Ultimately, no doubt, the baptisms and burials will find their way into print, but it seems expedient to issue the weddings first, as is done in the present series. No index isissued with the volume, as the Editors believe that it is better to print as many registers as possible, and for the present to defer index-making until the registers still in manuscript are placed beyond the risk of loss. The temporary absence of an index to the separate volumes or parishes will be fully compensated for by the issue, to which the Editors look forward, of one general index to the whole county. April, 1901.