INDEX
[Surnames begin with a capital. Place names begin with an italiccapital. All other entries begin with lower case. So there arethree separate indexes combined for convenience into one. Likewise Kings & Queens are also included in the main Index but indented. A separate list of rectors in chronological order is added after the Index.]
advowson, ------57 58
Ambrose, John B.A., 46th rec. rector 1797-1839 -88 118
see also Joseph Ambrose Lawson ------28
appeals for financial help ------90
architectural heritage year, overview of village143
architectural heritage year walk ------143
Atkins family ------50
Atton, Bartholomew ------6
Ayre, Thomas ------5
Ayremine, Adam de, 6th recorded rector ------62
Ayremine, Will, 5th recorded rector ------62
Ayres, Cecil ------30
Ayres, Edgar Thomas ------109
Ayres, William Thomas, sexton ------109 132
bacon factory chimney ------134
Bagley, Henry ------6
baptist chapel, (later baptist church) ------86 87 91 99 100 101 103
Barker, Robert, 26th recorded rector 1471-1472--70
Barlow, Sir William, 31st rec.rector 1535-1541 –73
Barry, Henry T.,M.A., 48th rec. rector 1884-1904 25 26 27 28 132
: memories of by 4 villagers -----106
: retirement presentation,etc. ---107
Barry, William, M.A., 47th rec. rector 1839-188410 15 92 113
Barry, William Henry, 49th rec. rector 1904-1914 2849 108 110 111 112 120
Bedford,duchess of, accused of witchcraft ----69
bible class ------111
births, baptisms, marriages & deaths ------26 27 77 81 82 84 85 87 88 89 91 92 93 99 116 132
Blackey, Lionel ------130
Blacky, Margaret ------25 26 27
Blisworth banner ------98
Blisworth choral society ------130 136
BlisworthChurch Newsheet ------55 152
Blisworth exhibition ------97
Blisworth feast ------23 49 73 94 96 121 131 143
Blisworth, fire of 1798 ------90 143
Blisworth House ------97 98 100 129
Blisworth manor of ------58 68 69 70 71 72 73 82
Boreham, Robert S.T.P.,39th rec.rector 1660-1664 81
Bosworth, battle of ------71 143
boxing night social ------133
boy scouts see scouts
Boyro, William, 33rd rec. rector 1544-1554 -----75
Brafield family------50 51
Bramhall, Roger, S.T.D. 34th rec. rector 1554-5575
Bridges (historian) ------51 52 53
Briwerre, William ------58
bull and boar ------89
Burbidge, F. ------54
Caesar, Richard ------135
Campion, Robert ------87
canal ------43 88 89
Catesby, Sir William of Ashby St.Ledgers.71
Challen,Phillip Kensit 54threc.rector 1951-1961 152
Chennells, Rev., baptist minister ------122 123
choir see also church choir ------22
church, architecture ------1 7 59 88 96
church, belfry ------2
church, bells ------3 4 5 6 55 80 86 96 10 143
church, bishops’ chairs ------14
church, box pews ------50 55 88 91 94 112
church, brass ------10 11 12
church, chancel ------1 27 8 13 14 15 16 18 21 22 25 27 28
52 53 82 83 95 128
church, chapel ------1
church, clock ------2 41 55 113 134 152
church, communion rails ------8
church, communion table ------8 11
church, credence table ------14
church, decalogue ------13
church, descriptions ------94
church, doorways ------1 95
church, fourteenth century woodcarving ------34
church, heating ------11
church, hygh alter ------7
church, I Spy game ------46
church, insurance ------114
church, leper’s squints ------18
church, lighting, ------12 74 114 134
church, litany desk ------14
church, low side windows ------1 18 20 44 55
church, Margaret Blackey, ------25 26 27
church, monuments ------24 55 143
church, mothers’ union banner ------14
church, musicians gallery ------55 88 94 95 109
church, nave ------1 7 21 95
church, north aisle ------1 95
church, organ, ------2 55
church, pews, see also church, box pews ------115
church, plate ------7 9 10 55 76 77 93
church, porch ------7 8095 143
church, powdered stone taken to be used for
healing--45
church, pre-reformation images ------76
church, priests doorway ------1 2
church, reredos ------8 11 13
church, restoration and interior ------7 28 94 95 104 113
church restoration 1856, services, in old barn54 95
church, rights of sanctuary ------16 17
church, rood ------21 22
church, rood loft ------21 22 72
church, rood screen ------2122 55 72
church, roof ------7
church, scratch markings ------44 45 95
church, sedilia ------14
church, south aisle ------1
church, stained glass ------13 15 55
church, stalls ------2
church, table tomb ------124 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 55 143
church, tower, ------1 224 34 40 41 42 43 5595 96134
church, windows ------1 7 13 15 18 55
church ales ------23 48
church and chapel relations ------141
church choir ------2 54 103 111
church choir suppers ------110 128
church christmases in late 19th and early 20th c.54
church council meetings ------121
church expenses ------23 30 54 77 100 103 107 109 113 115
128 134
church funerals ------116 132
church hall, later village hall ------152
church infant school ------122
church sexton and parish clerk ------11 41a 88 113 116
church social highlights ------110
church sunday school ------111 122 124
churchwardens ------83
churchwardens account books see church expenses
churchyard, ------56 116 134
churchyard cross ------48 50
churchyard, headstones and tombs------50 5156
churchyard, new cemetery ------56 99 115 121
church year, variations ------26
civil war period ------79
cliffe hill barn ------80
Clay, Rev. William ------93 95 119
Clinch, Colonel H.W. ------129 132
Clinch, Mona Clyde ------129 134
Colley, Helen Isabel ------135
Colley William Wingfield M.A., 50th rec. rector
1914-1928 18 120 123 129 130 132
Collynson, Phillip, 36th rec. rector 1558-78 ---77
communions ------113
confirmations ------95 113
Constable family ------53
Cook, Richard A.M., 38th rec. rector 1630-1656 - 53 78 79 80 81
coronation remembrance tree ------134
cost of living rents etc.------89 10 121 122 129 141
cottages demolition ------135
council houses ------135
council school ------33 111 122
court leets ------86 91
Courteenhall grammar school ------87
Coventry cathedral tapestry ------34
Cranmer ------78
cremations ------56 150
Cromwell, Thomas, lord ------77
curates ------84 85 8 93 113 119
curfew, meaning of ------143
Curtis, John, priest and schoolmaster ------7 22
Daily Reporter, The Sunday Spies ------104 105 106
death knell ------143
De Lubenham, William, our 2nd recorded rector --59
De Suthorp, John, 4th recorded rector ------60
Dee, John, 28th recorded rector 1485-1504 ------71 72
Dent, Tommy ------122
Dinner bell ------143
electric power ------133
Elmhurst, CaptainE. Pennel. ------8 9 100 122 126
Elmsale, William A.M., 24th recorded rector ----68
employment,trades and occupations ------99 100 135
enclosures ------91
endowed school ------3357 71 72 73 74 87 91 100 110 111
122
Estcheap, William of ------60
fairs ------73
Fox, John ------65
Foxe Thomas, 10th recorded rector ------65
free school, see endowed school
Freeston, E.T. ------132
Freeston, George ------135
funeral hoax ------132
gas supply ------141
girl guidessee guides
gleaning ------100
glebe, ------58 87 100 129
Goodridge John ------86 87
Grafton Arms (Duke of Grafton’s Arms)------89 92
Grafton, Duke of ------82 122
grafton estate, sale of village ------129
grafton hunt ------55 129
great barn ------143
Green, Mr. Arthur., schoolmaster and organist--33 111 122 130 136
Green, John ------54 57 107 111 126 132
Green, Samuel A.M., 43rd rec.rector 1721-1723-85
Grey, Sir John ------72 73 74
Griffin, Mary ------116
Griffith, Mr. E. ------136
guides ------134 135
handbell ringing ------103
harvest home supper & festivals ------100 111
Haskins, master of Courteenhall grammar school-100
Hatton family, patrons ------140
high and low church ------142
highways ------101
Hockerday, school and choir master ------111
Hockerday, Sarah Ann ------132
Hopkins, 53rd rec. rector 1948-1951 ------151 page missing
hot cross buns ------141
infant school ------33
Jeaffreson, Dr. Dudley and Mrs. ------132 133 136
John, our 1st recorded rector ------58
junior guild of St.John the Baptist ------124
Keswick, conventions ------150
KINGS & QUEENS
JOHN 1199-1216 ------58
EDWARD I 1217-1307 ------59 60 62
EDWARD II 1307-1327 ------62
HENRY III 1327-1377 ------58 84
RICHARD II 1377-1399 ------missing copy
HENRY IV 1399-1413 ------missing copy
HENRY V 1413-1422 ------missing copy
HENRY VI 1422-1461------68 69 70
EDWARD IV 1461-1483 ------35 65 69 71
EDWARD V April-August 1483 ------70
RICHARD III 1483 1485 ------71
HENRY VII 1485-1509 ------73
HENRY VIII 1509-1547 ------9 73 75 76
EDWARD VI 1547-1553 ------7 970 75 76
MARY TUDOR 1554-1558 ------7
ELIZABETH I 1558-1603 ------7 1 2578
JAMES I 1603-1625 ------1 2578
CHARLES I 1625-1649 ------25
CHARLES II 1660-1685 ------25 80 81 82 83 84
JAMES II 1685-1688 ------83
WILLIAM III 1688-1702 ------83
ANNE 1702-1714 ------1 84
GEORGE I 1714-1727 ------84
GEORGE II 1727-1760 ------1
GEORGE III 1760-1820 ------1 44 86(jubilee: 91) 119
GEORGE IV 1820-1830 ------91
WILLIAM IV 1830-1837 ------
VICTORIA 1837-1901 ------110
EDWARD VII 1901-1910 ------110
GEORGE V 1910-1936 Jubilee ------134
EDWARD VIII 1936 ------
GEORGE VI 1936-1952 Coronation ------134
ELIZABETH II 1952------
Knibb, George A.B., 41st rec. rector 1687-1701 -83
Knyghtly, Sir Richard, of Fawsley ------35 72
Lace makers ------93
Lawson, Joseph Ambrose ------28
Leeson, Jane Leeson charity ------31 80
lepers squints ------18
lion,ox,man,eagle woodcarving ------34
living, ------57 58
living conditions ------94
local defence guard ------121
lollards, ------65
Long, Phillip, 23rd recorded rector ------68
Lunn, Rev. G. H. 52nd rec. rector 1939-1948 ----13 150
Mail bags ------109
Mail messenger ------109
Mallett, George Hall, M.A., 51st rec. Rector ---
1928-1939 --41 57 13 134 135 136 137 140 142
Mallett, Louise, ------137
Manning, Richard S.T.P., 22nd recorded rector –-68
mardi gras ------23
Markham, Christopher, F.S.A. ------8
martyrs memorial trust ------57
Maunsell, Captain T. Cokayne ------100
men’s institute ------122 135
militia ------87 89
mill ------99 101
moiety ------113
Monmouth, James, Duke of ------83
mothers’ union ------14 123 124
Mounceaux,William, 19threcorded rector------67
mrs, mistress, or spinster ------31
musical evenings at rectory ------141
napoleonic wars ------30 87 9
needle worked frontals to communion table -----8
Newton, Reginald 21st rec. rector 1439-1446 ---67
Nichols, Thomas, of Naseby ------84
Northampton, battle of ------68
Northampton, great fire of 1675 ------82
Northampton town walls, destruction of ------81
oddfellows, Manchester unitedfriendlysociety 131 134
old school see church hall
oxford movement ------15
Pacey,Alice Emily, ------137
Palady, John, 27th recorded rector 1473-1485---70
Paragreen, George ------149
parish, acreage ------82
parish bier ------56
parish coffin ------56
parish registers ------77
parish registrar ------81
parish clerk ------11 81
parish council ------134
parish relief ------117
parliament, last at Northampton ------65
Parmenter(Parmynter), John, 20th recorded rector67
parochial assistance ------96
parochial church council ------110
patrons and patronage, list of patrons (140) --57 140
pauper ------89
penny club ------111
Percival, Jane ------57
Perkins, Mr. H. ------133 136
Perkins, Mrs. Lucy, organist 35 years ------111 130
pillow lace ------100
ploughboys ------103
Plowman family ------52
population of the village ------10 122 135
queen Anne’s Bounty ------84
priest and schoolmaster ------33
railway and station------88 91 92 94 95 99 121 125 135 149
rector, first with a degree ------68
rector’s names, list of ------57 73 92
rectors and vicars ------58
rectory and parsonages ------10 55 67 68 78 92 95 123 132 133 141
151
rectory cottage ------55
Reed, rev. B., baptist minister 1937-1943------150
refuse service ------133
Reynolds, J. ------14
Reynolds, Robert, 35th rec. rector 1555-57-----75 76 77
rights of Sanctuary ------16 17
Robard, John, 29th recorded rector 1504-1517 ---72
Roberts, Roland A.M., 42nd rec. rector 1701-1721 84
Rockingham forest, illegal hunting of deer ----59
Roper, Duke of Grafton’s agent ------87
Rothersthorpe church ------15
rubbings taken from scratch marks on tower roof43
sale of work ------103
sanctuary see rights of sanctuary
scouts,------124 134 135
sexton see church sexton and parish clerk
Shakeshaft, Robert ------14
shrove tuesday ------23
silk balloon at Northampton ------94
Smith, William A.M., 37th rec. rector 1578-1630 78
smallpox ------116
sparrow club ------11 102 107
stone-acre ------143
Stone family ------15 54 98 102
storm of 1895 ------107
Sturgess, Mr. William, baker ------136
Sturgess, T., baker ------134
sun, moon,and stars ------92
sunday lunches baked in village bake house ----141
surnames ------59
Stannard, Miss ------142
Taylor, William, sexton and parish clerk ------113 116
threshing by flail ------100
Tibbes family ------53
tithe ------87 89
toleration act ------83
Townsend ------80 143
transportation ------94
Trotman, Rev., Baptist minister ------101
Trotter, Nathaniel B.D.L., 45th rector 1762-179786
tunnel hill railway ------43
turnpikes, tolls, and toll-gates ------87 92 99 101 113
tympanium ------22
typhoid in Blisworth ------112
Usher,rev.Howard T.N, Baptist minister 1924-193541a 137
vestry meetings, chairmen etc. ------86 101
village families ------43 50 51 52 5378 77 80 82 83 84 85 87 91 93 101 102 107 111 117
village housing ------80 86
Wake endowed school see endowed school
Wake family 12th - 15th centuries ------35 58
Wake family 16th century ------39 72
Wake, Baldwin ------59
Wake, Elizabeth, wife to Roger ------37 38 39 73
Wake, Emma ------8 76 85
Wake, Joane, ------65
Wake, John ------60
Wake, Richard, 25th recorded rector ------69
Wake, Roger, Esq. ------33 35
Wake, Roger, tomb ------1 24 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 55 143
Wake, Thomas, d.1476 ------69 70 71
Wake, Thomas, last of the Wakes at Blisworth --72
wall painting dated 1670 ------80 143
war memorials of the two world wars ------30
Ward, Rev. Thomas, Rector 1723-62 ------27 85
Watson, Robert, schoolmaster d.1794 ------33
Welde, Henry, 11th recorded rector ------65
Wesley, John ------86
Westley, Joseph ------101 132
Westley, William ------91 101
Whitlock, ------91
Whitlock, William (Clocky) ------11
Whitlock, William John (Witty) ------2 41b 109 136
Williamson, Bartholomew, 32nd rec.rector 1541-4474
womens institute ------135
Woodman, Mr. Owen ------136
Woodville, Elizabeth ------60 70
Woodville, Sir Richard ------69
Woollacott, W.A. ------135
Woolvenen, Richard ------130
world war I ------121
belgian family of refugees ------122
lighting restrictions ------125
memorial------(also for world war II)------30 126
national relief fund ------122
nursing committee ------122
roll of honour ------123 125
shooting competition ------123
sunday school project ------122
volunteer training corps ------123 125
zeppelins ------121
world war II
bombs that dropped in the parish ------149
photographic record of church ------149
blenheim bomber crash ------149
Worster, William ------95
Yates, Jonathen A.M. 40th rec.rector 1664-87 -26 27 82
Yates, Rebekah ------27
Yford, Thomas, 30th recorded rector 1517-1521 –-72 73
Young, Benjamin ------93
RECORDED RECTORS OF BLISWORTH
John, 1st rector 1226 ------58
De Lubenham, William, 2ndrector 1272 ------59
William Estcheap, 3rd rector 1303–1304 ------60
John De Suthorp, 4thrector 1304-1309 ------60
Will Ayremine, 5thrector 1309–1313 ------62
Adam deAyremine, 6thrector 1313–1317 ------62
Thomas Foxe, 10thrector – 1386 ------65
Henry Welde, 11thrector 1386-1398 ------65
William Mounceaux, 19thrector 1422-1432 ------67
John Parmenter,20thrector1432-1438 ------67
Reginald Newton, 21st rector 1439-1446 ------67
Richard Manning S.T.P., 22ndrector 1446-1448 --68
Phillip Long, 23rdrector 1448-1449------68
William Elmsale A.M., 24thrector 1449-1462 ----68
Richard Wake, 25thrector 1462 - 1472------69
Robert Barker, 26thrector 1471-1472------70
John PaladyL.L.B., 27th rector 1473-1485 ------70
John Dee, 28thrector 1485-1504 ------71 72
John Robard, 29th rector 1504-1517 ------72
Thomas Yford, 30thrector 1517-1521 –------72 73
Sir William Barlow, 31strector 1535-1541 –-----73
Bartholomew Williamson, 32ndrector 1541-1544 --74
William Boyro, 33rdrector 1544-1554 ------75
Roger BramhallS.T.D., 34thrector 1554-1555 ---75
Robert Reynolds, 35thrector 1555-1557------75 76 77
Phillip Collynson, 36thrector 1558-1578 ------77
William Smith A.M., 37thrector 1578-1630 ------78
Richard Cook A.M., 38th rector 1630- 1656 –-----53 78 79 80 81
Robert Boreham S.T.P., 39th rector 1660-1664 ---81
Jonathen Yates A.M., 40thrector 1664-1687 -----2627 82
George Knibb A.B., 41st rector 1687-1701 ------83
Roland Roberts A.M., 42nd rector 1701-1721 -----84
Samuel Green A.M., 43rd rector 1721-1723 ------85
Thomas Ward, 44thrector 1723-1762 ------27 85
Nathaniel Trotter B.D.L., 45thrector1762-1797 86
John Ambrose B.A., 46th rector 1797-1839 ------88 118
William Barry M.A., 47th rector 1838-1884 ------10 15 92 113
Henry Thomas. Barry, 48th rector 1884-1904 -----25 26 27 28 132
William Henry Barry, 49th rector 1904-1914 -----28 108 110 111 112 120
William Wingfield Colley, 50th rector 1914-1928 18 120 123 129 130 132
George Hall Mallett, 51st rector 1928-1939 -----41 57 13 134 135 136 137 140 142
G.H. Lunn, 52nd rector 1939-1948 ------13 149 150
Hopkins, 53rd rector 1948-1951------151 page missing
Phillip Kensit Challen, 54th rector 1951-1961 --152
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