Norfolk: Hethersett

Parish Register Extracts

These have been found by the Norfolk transcribers for FreeREG, at the end of the Hethersett St Remigius register of baptisms and burials 1782-1812.

Inoculations in 1795
Part of Mr Wm. Hughes's Will (died May 1803)
Keeping of Registers
Contents of Registers
Duty on Births, Deaths and Marriages

Inoculations in 1795

: In the winter of the year 1795, 195 persons, varying in age from 2 years to 52, were inoculated & not one died.

Part of Mr Wm. Hughes's Will (died May 1803)

A copy of a clause in the will of the late Mr Wm. Hughes.

I give & bequeath to the Minister Churwardens [sic] & Overseers of the Parish of Hetherset for the time being & for ever three hundred pounds 3 per cent Consols Bank annuities to be paid by them to the Schoolmaster of that Parish for ever by two even & equal half yearly payments as interest money arising from the last mentioned sum for & towards the education of six poor children belonging to that Parish only to be chosen by the Minister Churchwardens & Overseers & by the Schoolmaster of that Parish alternately for ever And it is my will & desire that this legacy should be paid & discharged within six calendar months after my wife's decease.
Mr Hughes died May 23rd 1803.

Executrix Mrs Hughes
Revd Charles Sutton
Revd CT Chapman Exe^rs.

This bequest is noted in White's Directory 1845.

Keeping of Registers

: Registers were enjoined by Cromwel 1538.
By Edw^d 6^th 1547 & by Eliz^th 1559. from which time they have been kept with tolerable regularity, & since the abolition of Inquisitiones post mortem by Char^s 2^nd, are the best evidences of family descents.
S^r John Cullum Bart.

Contents of Registers

Calf begins with Bap^ms 1730 'till it
meets Burials 1730 viz 3 Pages.
Burials continue 1½ Pages then Marriages
in 1732 & Bap^ms at foot of same Page
which from thence continue to 1733
Mar^gs at Page 8 to 1733. Burials op: Page to
1733 Then Bap^ms at foot of same Page to
1734. turn over 4 Leaves the Mar^g 1735
Ditto op page mar of 1734, same page
Burials 1734 next Pa Bap^s 1734 to 1736

Then D^r. Berney
Burials 1736
Bap^ms 1736

Old parchm^t 1616 to 1655
Bap^s & Marg^s from 1616 to 1652
Buried from 1616 to 1650

A ragged old parchm^t book contains some Burials & Baptisms
in the year between 1729 & 1730

Duty on Births, Deaths and Marriages

: Feb^ry 16^th 1785 Rec^d for the duty on Births Deaths & Marriages for this Parish from the first of Oct^r 1783 to 1^st Oct^r 1784 the sum of nine shillings
Stepⁿ Child for John Gay Jun^r Collector