|
Holiwell, Solmon Baker, husbandman, and Mary, wife of
Luke Mills, yeoman, both in 1701, William Bennett, labourer, in
1702, and Jane, daughter of James Hadock, labourer, in 1706. Those to when
no borough was allocated included Robert Balder, a servant, in 1702,
Nicholas Middleton, yeoman, in 1703, Hugh Lance, yeoman, and Thomas Black,
mason, both in 1704, and Henry Stone, blacksmith, in 1705.
After 1706, the practice of naming occupations virtually
ceased and was not resumed until 1790; an exception was ‘Thomas Gotten
ye Cooper’, in 1715. It was James Dean of Terry’s Lodge’, who died
in 1755, who was uniquely honoured with a specific address. That may have
been done to differentiate him from one of the family of the same name who
then, or later, lived at Corner Farm in West Yoke.
During the first half of the eighteenth century four
unbaptised persons who were apparently adults were interred. Of these, ‘Old
James Haddock’, who died in 1727, had probably longest enjoyed the
opportunity for repentance.
Mention has been made of the tax of 3d imposed in 1783 on
burial entries. A note by the rector records |
|
that entries for ‘persons from any Workhouse or
Hospital or buried at the sole expense of any Charity were exempt. In the
eleven odd years during which this unhappy tax continued, there seem to
have been eighteen exemptions from a total of one hundred and thirteen
burials. Five of the exemptions related to travellers, so that entries for
about one in eight of local inhabitants were free of the charge.
When Mr Lambard gave his new look to the Burial register in
1790, he provided seven columns under the respective headings of ‘Date’,
‘Name’, ‘Profession’, ‘Age’, ‘Distemper’, ‘Day of Death’
and ‘Occasional Remarks’. This format was used without substantial
change until 1812, by which time two hundred and twenty deaths had been
recorded and their causes mostly diagnosed.
The death rate from 1790 to 1812 remained fairly constant;
there were one hundred and seven burials from 1790 to 1799 and one hundred
and thirteen from 1800 to 1812. Save for two travellers, an age was always
entered; all too often it was a very young age. Fifty-eight children,
representing more |