Notes for Charlesworth 

Independent Chapel Baptisms


1a. Forename could be Agison. Stafford spelt STAFFORD & STAFFORT 

1. `at the Toll House near Tintwistle`

2. Surname `OWEN alias GARLICK`

3. Bapt month changed from May

4. Surname amended from ROHDES

5. `at 10 min after 5 oclock in the morning`

6. Surname corrected from LONGHRIDGE

7. Date changed - difficult to tell what it should be

8. Bapt at Mottram Church

9. Later this surname shown as BANCROFT

10.`the parents are Baptists & the time of their daughter`s birth is inserted at their request`.

11. From this date BEARD becomes BAIRD

12. `Baptists by profession`

13. `& this registered at the desire of the parents who are Baptists`

14. `and is here reported at the request of the parents who are baptists`

15. `NB The father thinks it would be a sin to have the child baptized`

16.`(but lives in New York, Glossop p.)`

17. `(formerly of Mill Brow) `

18. `NB The parents of these children are Baptists`

19. `NB The parents are baptists & their children were not baptized but at the request of the parents the date of their birth is here inserted`

20. `bapt at Grosvenor St. Chapel, Manchester`

21. `this their first son bapt & registered at Glossop church`

22. `NB The mother of this child had been legally married but it was afterwar (sic) found out that the man had another wife living at the time`

23. `baptised & registered at Glossop`

24. `Sarah`s former husband`s name was MAYFIELD`

25. `and is here registered at the request of the parents who are Baptists

26. `the parents being Baptists the child was not baptized`

27. Surname previously reverse of this - ie Anthony Barber HIGINBOTTOM