The Church of St Bartholomew, Whitworth in the County of -- Lancashire --

Baptisms at St Bartholomew
in the Town of Whitworth, Rochdale

For the format of dates in Registers prior to 1752, see notes on the Julian Calendar

1.) The entries from May 24th 1778 - Apr 1781 are missing.

2.) In October 1783 a stamp duty was introduced of 3 pence on every entry in a parish register.

This event is touched upon in the Whitworth register when the Clerk wrote the following sentence:

"Here came in the duty 3d Pr Baptisms &c"

This entry comes on the third page of the register after the entry for Sarah Hoyle, - parents Charles and Sarah who were the last baptism on 28th Sept 1783 before the tax.

There were no further references to the tax in these Bishop's Transcripts so probably the record was kept elsewhere.

3.) No-one was mentioned as baptising each individual child in the Whitworth register.

However, at the end of each year the BT's were signed by several people.I've included a list of these:-

I've included full date when they stated it but otherwise the year and last month on the sheet signed. Also all names signed are included.

4) Intak/ Intax:This area is NNEast of Whitworth village.The spelling of this abode is problematic.A map dated about 1851 spells it Intake. However the early clerks spelt it variously Intak and Intax.As clerks often wrote the letter k in a strange manner the x interpretation may really be a k but I have transcribed these to the nearest letter that it looks most like.

The Register for Baptisms at St Bartholomew 1744 - 1763 with Surname Index

The Register for Baptisms at St Bartholomew 1763 - 1774 with Surname Index

The Register for Baptisms at St Bartholomew 1776 - 1800 with Surname Index

The Register for Baptisms at St Bartholomew 1805 - 1812 with Surname Index

The Register for Baptisms at St Bartholomew 1813 - 1838 with Surname Index

The Register for 1813 - 1838 is divided into batches covering 13 years
Batches for the individual years may be accessed via the links below

 1813 - 1825   1826 - 1838 

The Register for Baptisms at St Bartholomew 1838 - 1851 with Surname Index

There are 3590 Baptism Records extracted for this Church

A combined index for all the above registers may be accessed through the links below.

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