Completed Parish Register 5 St Marys Andover

I completed the 5th Parish Register for St Marys Andover and now have 7141 baptisms to the end of September 1699, 1705 marriages to April 1701 and 6885 burials to the middle of 1714 plus 182 sets of Banns for the period 1653-1658. My excel file is now 3 MB in size.

We have tried unsuccessfully to get to Church for three Sundays running now and will try for this Sunday. Tithing on par has meant that I do not have to be there to give my tithes in in person and it has had a rather liberating effect on my Church attendance. I enjoy attending but I also enjoy my transcribing and often enough the one wins out over the other. I still feel close to God and sometimes as I age I wonder which is the more important being close to God at Church or feeling close to God at home. I have tithed now for over 44 years since we got married with just a ten year break whilst I was at home earning very little money copyediting and proofreading at first.

On to the 6th Parish Register for St Marys Andover and the register is in script now for the most part. Not too bad to read just have to concentrate on some of the letters so as not to mix them up. Henry Lambden's marriage has been mistranscribed as Henry Camden in 1699. Is this my Lambden line at Andover? These baptisms are not on the IGI and Nathaniell is a frequent name in this time interval in the registers. Perhaps I will be lucky and find the baptism of Nathaniell at Andover after searching diligently for a number of years now in Berkshire. I will be able to remove Berkshire from my list of counties at least for the present. Henry Lambden was of Stock (is this Stoke Charity?). Stoke Charity is only 4 miles from Barton Stacy and five miles from Longparish (both of these parishes are well represented in the marriage records at Andover). Andover seems like a "gathering spot" for marriages in the area and amazingly far away (without a county designation they are mostly Hampshire although Sarum being well known is of course in Wiltshire. Parishes represented include:

Abotts Ann
Actsminster, East Woodhay
Amport
Anton
Appleshewe
Ashmansworth
Barton Stacye
Beauly
Beeching Stoake, Wiltshire
Bickelbery
Bidsden, Ludgershall, Wiltshire
Bishops Waltham
Borington
Boyton, WIL
Broughton
Brummim, WIL
Bruton, Somerset
Bulinton
Burbage, WIL
Burclear
Burslane
Bushy Down
Buttermere
Buxcleer
Canfeild, Weyhill
Cayton Buzard
Chard, Somerset
Charlton
Chierly, Berkshire
Chilbolton
Churchon
Chute
Clatford
Collingborn
Collingborn Ducis
Collingborne Kingston, Wiltshire
Combe
Corwly
Devizes , WIL
Down Husbourn
East Choldertoune
East Wodhay
Eastontowne
Eggbury, St Mary Bourne
Embourne, Berkshire
Enford
Enham
Fackham
Farrington, Berkshire
Fifield
Filleden, WIL
Flouty House
Foxcott
Frinock
Froom, SOM
Fullarton
Goodworth Clatford
Great Bedwin, Wiltshire
Ham
Hanes, Surrey
Hatford, Berkshire
Hatherdene
Haughton
Haybourne Quil
Henly, parish of Buttermeer
Hicksclere
Hoddineton, Oxford
Hotten
Houghton
Houselbury
Huersley, WIL
Hungerford
Hunton, Crawly
Husborn Pryor
Husborn Upper
Husborne Tarrant
Husford
Hustborie tall
Hustborne Tarrant
Ibsror
Inkpen
Isle of Wight
Karsingstock
Kimpton
Kingscleere
Kingsomborne
Knights Enham
Laverstock and Ford, Wiltshire
Leckfield
Lestford
Little Ann
Little Basing
Little Beding
Littleton, Kimpton
Lockford
London
Longparish
Longstock
Lower Wallope
Ludgershall
Ludgershall, Wiltshire
Malborough, Wiltshire
Martyr Worthy
Millbrooke
MirMist, Amport
Monks Anne
Monxton
New Alresford
Newbury, Berkshire
Newport
Newtowne
North Bradley,Wiltshire
North Tidworth
Nubery
Overton
Oxforde
Parish of St Edmons, New Sarum
Penton
Penton Grafton
Penton Mewsey
Pewsey
Portsmouth
Quarly
Rabery, Berkshire
Rauerster
Reading
Redman, Fifeld
Rempen
Remsbery, WIL
Ringwood
Romsey
Russell
Sarum
Seend, Wiltshire
Shadeson, Kimpton
Shalborne
Shalden
Shodsden
Smannell
Snidhurst, Sussex
South Stoneham
South Tidworth
Southington
St Mary Bourne
St Mary Winchester
St Thomas Parish, Sarum
Stapleford, Wiltshire
Stock
Stockeridge
Stockford
Sutton
Tale
Tanglye
Tetcom
Thornyton
Thrapson
Tidworth
Tule
Tuste, Wiltshire
Upper Clatford
Upper Collingbourne
Upper Wollop
Upton
Upton
Wallop
Walts
Wanstone, Sutton Cotton
Warminster
Wayber
Wayhill
Weeke
Wenson
West Deane
West Tythyely
Westjohn, Wherwell
Wherwell
Whitchurch
White Parish, WIL
Wildhern
Wilscom, Somerset
Winchester
Winterborn Stoke
Winterslow, Wiltshire
Winton
Woodhouse