Explanation of Layout for Parish Register Listing

Researched, transcribed, compiled, edited, indexed, formatted, encoded and copyright © 2003, John Palmer, All Rights Reserved.

The Standard LAYOUT

This compressed format has been chosen to cope with the increased data in records after 1813, to keep baptisms and burials to a single line, and to limit the webspace necessary for the 88,000 records in the Parish Registers 1608-1899

C 1857jun28 ABBOT Elizabeth=Robert/Emma(Wirksworth)[Butcher]#1880,dob=1856jun12,"Middleton Chapel" M 1850apr24 ABBOTT Robert(Wirksworth)Butcher/DOXEY Emma(Wirksworth), #91 Fathers: Isaiah ABBOTT,Butcher/Thomas DOXEY,Miner Witnesses: John FOULKES,Mary ABBOTT Status: B,F/S,F. Comments: called John Smith B 1898may09 ABBOTT Elizabeth (The Dale)[90]#1568"in churchyard"

EXPLANATION of the LAYOUT

INDEXING All entries are indexed in the order:(surname)-(firstname)-(date). Surnames and firstnames include all spelling variants. Baptisms have a second list indexed in the order: (surname)-(father's firstname)-(mother's firstname)-(date). This applies only to the commonest 95 surnames, and helps find all siblings and estimate parent's marriage year.

CHRISTENING=C C 1857jun28 ABBOT Elizabeth=Robert/Emma(Wirksworth)[Butcher]#1880,dob=1856jun12,"Middleton Chapel" C Baptism Surname Child =Father/Mother(Abode) [Job] #entry,Date-of-Birth, "Comment" Notes: (Mother's name normally not given before 1780) (Latin was widely used for Church records before 1754) (All Latinized firstnames are listed as their English translation) (#entry is the Entry Number usually given in Parish Registers from 1837) (Usually the only date given in the PRs is the date of Baptism, not Birth) (Date-of-Birth is rarely given except for 1654-1660 and 1771-1899) (See Late Baptisms for over 1 year, up to 70 years is known)

MARRIAGE=M M 1850apr24 ABBOTT Robert(Wirksworth)Butcher/DOXEY Emma(Wirksworth), #91 Fathers: Isaiah ABBOTT,Butcher/Thomas DOXEY,Miner Witnesses: John FOULKES,Mary ABBOTT Status: B,F/S,F. Comments: called John Smith M Date Surname Firstname (Abode)Job /details of Spouse #entry Fathers: details of father/of spouse's father Witnesses: names of Witnesses Status: of subject/of spouse Comments: called John Smith Notes: (Status: B=bachelor, S=spinster, W=widow of widower, F=full age, M=minor, U=under age, Con=consent. Sometimes the age is given in years) (Age in years was only given regularly 1771-1775 and 1883-1899) (Latin was widely used for Church records before 1754) (All Latinized firstnames are listed as their English translation) (#entry is the Entry Number usually given in Parish Registers from 1837) (Witnesses names were recorded from 1754) (* indicates there were more than two Witnesses) (Fathers names were recorded from 1837, rarely before)

BURIAL=B B 1898may09 ABBOTT Elizabeth (The Dale)[90]#1568"in churchyard" B Date Surname Firstname (Abode) [age]#entry "Comment" Notes: (Latin was widely used for Church records before 1754) (All Latinized firstnames are listed as their English translation) (age ending in m=months, w=weeks, d=days, otherwise years) (age was only given at Burial from 1811-1899) (#entry is the Entry Number usually given in Parish Registers from 1837)

Notes: "MPR"=Middleton Parish Register (a separate parish after 1847). "At Middleton"....Took place in Middleton chapel but listed in Wirksworth PRs. "FWK"=Framework Knitter. "+"=more than 2 Witnesses (see original for full list). All declared Dates-of-Birth are listed. "in churchyard"....Burials after 1850 normally took place in cemetery. Very long names are expanded in the comments field.

Researched, transcribed, compiled, edited, indexed, formatted, encoded and copyright © 2003, John Palmer, All Rights Reserved.