IDE PARISH REGISTER MISC. RECORDS

Published with the permission of the Vicar of Ide Graham Mayer

These are miscellaneous records I have found in the Ide Parish Registers. 

A note on the first page of Parish Register 4.

There are five Register Books belonging to the parish of Ide prior to the year 1813.

No. 1.     Register of Baptisms, Burials and Marriages from the year 1653 to the year 1736.

No. 2.    Register of Baptisms, Burials and Marriages from the year 1653 to the year 1736

No. 3.     Register of Marriages from 1754 to 1778

No. 4.    Register of Marriages from 1778 to 1813

No. 5.    Register of Baptisms & Burials from 1807 to 1813

Copy of Return of the Register delivered in 1831 respecting the population. - Nathaniel Cole.

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IDE   24th September 1834

Be it remembered that the Parish Church of Ide Devon was entirely rebuilt (except the Tower) and enlarged in the year 1834 with free will offerings alone, without any rate upon the inhabitants, - & Parishioners of the Parish.

That the said Church so rebuilt was duly consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Exeter on Friday the 19th day of September 1834

That by such reconstruction 240 sittings have been obtained in addition to 290 formerly provided in the Old Church making total number of sittings in the present building 530

That of this number 300 are hearby declared to be free & unappropriate for ever viz the total contents of the Gallery which amount to 114 and the whole of the centre part of the area of the floor which will contain 186 more according to a plan thereof made & intended to be preserved whith this Memorandum

as witness our hands. - Jas'hen Earle      Puf? Curate of Ide, Devon

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Population census for the years 1761 - 1784 for the parish of Ide

Year

1761

1762

1763

1764

1765

1766

1767

1768

1769

1770

1771

1772

1773

1774

1775

1776

1777

1778

1779

1780

1781

1782

1783

1784

Births

21

21

17

21

19

18

16

14

20

15

12

14

20

12

21

16

21

20

13

22

17

14

16

23

Burials

10

19

18

17

17

15

10

7

16

26

10

11

21

9

8

13

18

10

21

17

12

21

13

13

Difference

+11

+2

-1

+4

+2

+3

+6

+7

+4

-11

+2

+3

-1

+3

+13

+3

+3

+10

-8

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All amounts are in Pounds, Shillings & Pence. For those of you born after decimalization, there were 12 pennies to a shilling (5p) and 20 shillings to a pound. Also 21 shillings to Guinea.

                                                Surplice? keep for the year 1811

                                                 February the 10th marriage fee £0=5=0

                                                 February the 24th burial fee £0=2=6

                                                 March the 21st a marriage fee £0=10=6

                                                 March the 26th Burial fee £0=6=0

                                                 May the 16th breaking the ground £0=6=8

                                                 August the 4th ditto £0=2=6

                                                 September the 14th burial fee £0=2=6

                                                 September? the 30th burial fee £0=10=6

 

                                                 The year 1812

                                                  January the 19th Churching fee £0=2=6

                                                  January the 22nd ...........? Mrs Michell £1=0=0

                                                  March the 15th burial fee £0=2=6

                                                  May the 6th burial fee £0=2=6

                                                  September the 14th a marriage fee £0=5=0

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