Composite register of births, marriages, and deaths

Description

Please note: this register is closed, for conservation reasons. A copy is available on microfilm

Marriages, 1653 - 1687. From 1660 date and names of parties listed only; births, 1653 - 1687; deaths, 1653-1686.

Note at end of burials regarding entries in parish register. Descendants of Shakespeare marked with an 'x'.

Also including:
- memorandum (at front) of the election of Richard Smith as Parish Register, 28 Sep [1653];

- memorandum of exception (at front) made by Katherine Marshall of Warwick, spinster, against the proposed marriage of John Francis of Wellesbourne, gentleman, on grounds of pre-contract, 20 Apr 1654;

- list of Gift Sermons between Michaelmas and Lady Day, and between Lady Day and Michaelmas (year not specified), n.d. (at back of marriages);

- copy will (at back) of Richard Chandler dated 28 Sep 1691 with bequests to the Corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon, the churchwardens, and the poor, n.d. [1690s];

- directions for the Parish Clerk (at back) of Gift Sermons, n.d. [?1680s]