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RefNoKP76/1/2A
AltRefNoP76/1/2A
TitleComposite register
DescriptionBAPTISMS: 11 April 1698 - 26 December 1802
MARRIAGES: 29 September 1698 - 25 December 1753
BURIALS: 1 (May) 1730 - 28 December 1776 I
DISSENTER BIRTHS: 1698 - 1784
DISSENTER BURIALS 1718/1719 - 1764
Burials in woollen 20 March - 13 June 1698
This paper register was rebound in 1953 by the Cambridge Binding Guild, and the section of burials 1777 to 1802 which forms the next register (P76/1/2B) was omitted. BURIALS missing 1738 to 1744, Occupations usually given.
Includes on front end leaves: Two fragments of a leaf (or leaves) formerly loosely inserted but now pasted in, one with Latin phrases and an English translation, the other containing the following memorandum: 'N.B. This Register was found in this sad and mutilated condition by me on my entrance on the Incumbency of Gamlingay. J.A. James, September 1847.' Receipt for two sums of 3d each on a wedding and a burial, 1783. (under the 1783 Stamp Act).
In the text: Memorandum of the death of Edward Sclater, 21 October 1710, and induction of John Jenings M.A., Fellow of Clare Hall, 12 December 1710 . BAPTISM of a Negro Christian in the house, the weather being very cold, 4 February 1710/1711 DEATH of Sir George Downing, Bt., at Gamlingay Park and carriage to the family vault at Croydon, 9 June 1749. DEATH of John Ward, Vicar, at Gamlingay, aged 56 (and burial at Willian, Hertfordshire) 16 November 1749
Dreadful fire at Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, 16 June 1785
Date1698 - 1953
CreatorNameGamlingay Parish Church
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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