1891 - 1900

Parish records; baptisms, banns, marriages and burials

Numbers of named records: baptisms: 57, banns: 52, marriages (including witnesses): 81, burials: 42. Below are the surnames of those in the records, the most frequent are highlighted:

Abbott (2), Abbs (1), Aldridge (1), Atkins (1), Barber (1), Barrett (1), Beaumont (1), Beckett (3), Bellamy (1), Brookes (1), Brooks (1), Buck (7), Bush (1), Chappell (1), Clamp (2), Coleman (1), Crickmore (1), Disney (1), Dixon (1), Drake (1), Duffield (13), Everett (4), Feck (1), Feek (3), Fisher (1), Flatt (6), Fuller (9), George (1), Gilbert (1), Goat (1), Goate (4), Goodswen (3), Goodswin (1), Goose (7), Gowing (9), Gray (4), Hardy (4), Harris (1), Herod (6), Hooley (1), Howell (7), Hubbard (1), Keeler (2), Knivett (5), Lloyd (2), Long (2), Ludkin (4), Marshall (1), Matthew (1), Matthews (7), Mears (14), Minister (1), Neave (1), Nudds (3), Perfitt (2), Phillippo (1), Pidgeon (3), Plummer (1), Porcher-Meen (2), Potter (4), Read (1), Reeve (1), Reynolds (3), Roy (1), Rush (2), Sander (1), Sanders (2), Seaman (6), Sharman (3), Sheen (1), Shein (1), Sheldrake (1), Short (1), Skeels (2), Skoyles (3), Smith (5), Squire (1), Steward (1), Suckling (2), Tacon (3), Thurston (2), Troughton (1), Turner (1), Walpole (3), Warnes (1), Waters (2), Weller (1), Wiseman (2), Womack (3), Wright (1)

The data from the transcriptions is available in 3 formats; MS Excel Workbook (.xlsx), MS Excel 97-2003 Workbook (.xls) and text file (.txt). Last updated 27 July 2019

Events during the period of 1891 to 1900

  • June 25, 1891: The character Sherlock Holmes, created by Arthur Conan Doyle, appeared in The Strand magazine for the first time.
  • March 15th, 1892: Liverpool Football Club was founded by John Houlding, the owner of Anfield, who formed his own team after previous tenants Everton left Anfield following a rent dispute.
  • November 8, 1892: Grover Cleveland won the U.S. presidential election, becoming the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms.
  • 13 January 13th, 1893: The Independent Labour Party has its first meeting in Bradford with  Keir Hardie as chairman.
  • December 1893: The British public was outraged when Arthur Conan Doyle published a story in which Sherlock Holmes apparently died.
  • March 12th, 1894: With Coca-Cola having been trademarked in 1893, the Coca-Cola Company was able to sell its produce in bottles for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
  • May 21st, 1894: the Manchester Ship Canal opened, linking Manchester to the Irish Sea.
  • August 2nd, 1894: Death duties, the predecessor of the present inheritance tax, were proposed and introduced by the Liberal chancellor of the exchequer, Sir William Harcourt.

  • April 1896: The first modern Olympic games, the idea of Pierre de Coubertin, are held in Athens, Greece.
  • July 2nd, 1897: Guglielmo Marconi is awarded a patent for radio communication.

  • October 10th, 1899: Second Boer War begins in South Africa.


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