Narrative and Notes
The history of my family
AD 1732
Mary ye Daught'r of Mary & Wm Underwood baptiz'd July 16th
1755
William Underwood was buried June 3d
Leicestershire Parish Registers Vol 2, Parish: Rotherby
William Underwood, gardener, & Elizabeth North ... 28 Nov. 1757
Thomas Haslewood of the Parish of Asfordby Carpenter and Elizabeth Underwood of this Parish spinster Married in this Church by License this Fifteenth Day of February in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Two by me Thomas Pocklington Rector
This Marriage was solemnized between US
Thomas Heaslelwood
Elizabeth Underwood
In the Presence of
John Marriott
Henry Padgett
Know all Men by these Presents that WE
Thomas Heaselwood of Asfordby in the County of Leicester Carpenter, and John Marriott of the same place
...
Sealed with our seals dated the Fourteenth Day of February in the Second Year of the Reign of our Sovereigh Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Two.
...
Thomas Heaselwood above Bound Batchelor and Elizabeth Underwood of Rotherby in the County of Leicester aforesaid Spinster
may lawfully solemnize Marriage together
...
Thomas Heaselwood [seal]
John Marriott [seal]
Sealed and delivered in the Presence of Us
Samuel Stockdale
John Stockdale
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The 14th day of February 1762
Appeared personally Thomas Heaselwood Carpenter and being sworn upon the Holy Evangelists to depose the truth upon his oath deposeth and saith that he is of the Parish of Asfordby in the County of Leicester which hath been the usual place of his abode for ffour weeks last past aged twenty three years and a Batchelor and intendeth to intermarry with Elizabeth Underwood spinster aged twenty three years of the Parish of Rotherby in ye County of Leicester aforesaid which hath been the usual place of her abode for ffour weeks last past, and that he doth not know or believe there is any lawfull lett or impediment by reason of any precontract, consanguinity, affinity, or any other lawfull cause whatsoever to hinder the said intended marriage and pray'd a license to solemnize the said marriage in the Parish Church of Rotherby aforesaid.
The same day the said Thomas Heaselwood was sworn
Thomas Heaselwood
Before me
Ge[n?] Andrewes
Surrogt
1774
December ye 14th was buried Mary Underwood widow
1780
December 24th Buried Elizabeth Haslewood