The Parish of Todmorden in the County of -- Lancashire --

Baptisms at St Mary
in the Parish of Todmorden

1) All pages up to the year 1740 on the film have been transcribed.
Where there are years missing in the record between 1680 and 1710 these pages appear to be missing or records were not kept.

2) Record numbers 31 to 51 are not the correct first names but a part of a sentence in Latin which distorts the name because of compound and surrounding words. Even though he'd entered previous records in English for several years, the clerk **(see note below) suddenly started to use Latin on these pages, sometimes this was incorrect Latin.
I have transcribed exactly what was written but please be aware of the following.
No child in a Lancashire town or village was ever actually likely to be named Abrahami, Gratia or Guilielmus etc by its parents but would be Abraham, Grace or William.
Please see the list below which gives a guide which may help you find the person's probable actual name:-

OTHER LATIN TERMS:_ filia = daughter
filius = son
infans = infant
Vidua = Widow

LATIN NAMES:-
Abrahamus/ Abrahami = Abraham
Alicia = Alice or much less commonly Alicia
Anthonii = Anthony
Anna = Ann or less commonly Anna
Carolus = Charles
Danielis = Daniel
Elizabetha = Elizabeth
Georgius = George
Guilielmus = William
Jahannes, Johanes, Johannes, Johannis, Johanis = John
Jacobus = James or much less commonly Jacob
Josephus = Joseph
Maria = Mary or much less commonly Maria
Richardi = Richard
Robertus = Robert

** The Clerk and Curate at this time was Henry Krabtree (from 1662-1685) who was somewhat notorious in the district for his eccentricity. However, we have him to thank for the first consistent keeping of Parish records, so perhaps he can be forgiven his eccentricities.

3) Where the records include the word "Dippers", "Dipper" or "Dippr" this could refer to the method of baptism which was favoured by some Baptists at the time. This meant that instead of sprinkling, as was common in the Church of England, immersion of the body was favoured during the baptism ceremony. The divide between sects which are "Dippers" and "Sprinklers" goes on until the present day.

4) Page 36 is very badly damaged on the left edge and other parts by water and decay and insects. All of the childrens' names and also many parents, especially fathers have disappeared completely, the dates are written on the right and mostly still remain although some dates towards the bottom are very washed away and faint, so my readings for those are tentative.
The whole transcription is the best which can be derived from a very difficult page.

The Register for Baptisms at St Mary 1670 - 1740 with Surname Index

The Register for the years 1670 - 1740 is divided into batches covering 36 years
Batches for the individual years may be accessed via the links below

 1670 - 1705   1706 - 1740 

There are 1003 Baptism Records extracted for this Parish

St Mary, Todmorden - Miscellaneous Records 1628 - 1633 including some Baptisms and Burials.