Confirmation of further Matthias line data

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The FARNSWORTH One-Name Study has been checking parish registers in Eccles, 
Lancashire. They are in poor condition and so we have also checked the facts 
with a transcript made in 1932.  Even in that year there was a problem with 
the writing, page deterioration and fugitive ink.

We confirmed the entries that agree Richard was father of Matthias 1 and 
found various other entries about siblings and the wider family.

We made notes on the priests in charge on the occasions of Farnworth weddings 
and baptisms  (name., dates of his incumbency etc.).

We took particular note of the oldest Farnworth entries in the registers and 
can now advise:
a) The father of Richard Farnworth, grandfather of Matthias, is confirmed as 
Elizeius, baptised January 1561/2 at Eccles Parish Church, Lancashire.
b)  The mother of Richard Farnworth was named Margreta, but her surname was 
indecipherable even under a strong magnifying glass and infra-red lamp.  
There is an entry for baptism of a Margretha Ba........ ( which presumably 
was the same as it is such an unusual Christian name) during the summer of 
1564,  probably July.
c)  Elizeius  (Elijah) and Margreta married in September 1582 in Eccles 
Parish Church..

The two researchers came back filled with admiration for thpose who 
transcribed the whole registers in the 1930's - an appallingly difficult task 
because of their condition and the crabbed handwriting, they said.  The task 
wasn't helped by two of the vicars insisting on using Latin in the registers, 
either!

regards

Patrice

Guild of One Name Studies 3026
Society of Genealogists UK