At Great Stainton, also known as Stainton-le-Street, from the Bishop’s Transcript with extensive cross-checking against the original parish register, plus some missing records added from the register:

• 366 baptisms 1762 to 1855
• 148 burials June 1762- April 1854

The Stainton register was a mess. Especially in the 1760s-1790s, it seemed to have had numerous baptisms recorded on scraps of paper that were then stuck into the register. We found several baptisms in the Bishop’s Transcript that could not be found in the original register, leading us to assume they were lost from the original register after the Bishop’s Transcript was made.

This parish, in Stockton district, served residents of Elstob, Bishopton, Aycliffe, Woodham, and of course Stainton-le-Street. A sample baptism from the detail-rich period:

• 25 Dec 1797 Ann Boazman, born 20 Nov 1797, daughter of John Boazman (of this parish) & Ann his wife late Byers (of Little Staynton, Bishopton)