Witham Parish Records Also nieghbouring Faulkbourne & Fairstead , where I have yet to find any Parchments.
Fairstead D/P 310/1/3 searched 1705-53 for marriages & 1705-1808 quickly for baptisms & burials
Baptisms D/P 30/1/1 1648-1743 . D/P 30/1/3 1743-93 . D/P 30/1/9 1813-37
| 1707 | Elizabeth | James & Jane Parchment . bapt. together 21/12/1721 | 29 | |
| 1709 | James | James & Jane Parchment . bapt. together 21/12/1721 | 29 | he could marry 1737 |
| 1711 | Nicholas | James & Jane Parchment . bapt. together 21/12/1721 | 29 | |
| 1715 | Margaret | James & Jane Parchment . bapt. together 21/12/1721 | 29 | |
| 1721 | Richard | James & Jane Parchment . bapt. together 21/12/1721 | 29 | |
| 1723 | William | James & Jane Parchment . bapt. 28/7/1723 | 30 | |
| John | James & Jane Parchment . bapt. 28/7/1723 | 30 | seemingly 18 yrs old?- thus b.~1705 | |
| 1724 | James | James & Jane Parchment bapt.11/6/1724 no birth d. | 31 | James m.Jane Wakelin 1723 |
| 1729 | Jane | James & Jane Parchment | 33 | |
| 1732 | Jane | James & Jane Parchment , being ~ 19yrs old | 35 | thus born~ 1713. Obviously 2 James& J couples |
| 1733 | Elizabeth | James & Jane Parchment | 36 | James m.Jane Wakelin 1723 |
| 1738 | Sarah | James & Sarah Parchment | 39 | |
| 1740 | James | James & Sarah Parchment | 40 | |
| 1745 | William | James & Sarah Parchment | 4 | Now on D/P 30/1/3 |
| 1746 | Elizabeth | James & Sarah Parchment | ||
| 1748 | Samuel | James & Sarah Parchment | 6 | |
| 1751 | Benjamin | James & Sarah Parchment | 8 | |
| 1758 | William Amis | Thomas & Eliz.Amis | 15 | No other Amies image7-23, 1749-1765 |
| 1778 | Elizabethdies1779 | James & Elizabeth Parchment | 32 | Born feb21, buried |
| 1780 | Elizabeth | William & Elizabeth Parchment | 33 | Born 13/2, baptised 10/3. |
| 1782 | William dies 1786 | William & Elizabeth Parchment | 34 | Born 3/1/1782, baptised 17/2/1782 seemingly no more baptisms in Witham |
| so where were Mary, Sarah etc bapt? | ||||
| 1781 | John | Benjamin & Elizabeth Parchment | 34 | |
| 1782 | Benjamin | Benjamin & Elizabeth Parchment | 35 | |
| 1786 | William | Benjamin & Elizabeth Parchment | 37 | |
| 1789 | James | James & Elizabeth Parchment | 40 | May |
| 41 | End of baptisms on this fiche-Mar 1791 | |||
Marriages D/P 30/1/1 1669-1743 D/P 30/1/6 1754-1783
| 1680-1711 | No Parchment marriages recorded | 47 | This odd! James & Jane had m.~1706 | |
| 1723 | James Parchment m.Jane Wakeling | 50 | ||
| 2/10/1737 | James Parchment m. Sarah Lionel | 42 | both of this parish | parents of William 1745 |
| 1739 | Nicholas Parchment m. Mary Bateman | 42 | he widower | Born 1711- he dies 1851 |
| 1742 | James Parchment m.Mary Turner | |||
| 1746 | James Parchment m. Elizabeth Clark | A James bapt. 1724 | ||
Burials D/P 30/1/2 1678- 1789
| 1727 | James | child | likely James 1724 | |
| 1734 | Elizabeth | infant | ||
| 1737 | Martha | no age given | ||
| 1741 | Jane | wife of James | 56 | she married by 1707 |
| 1744 | Sarah | wife of James | 58 | |
| 1751 | Nicholas | no age given | Nicholas 1711, remarried to Mary Bateman in 1739?? | |
| 1753 | Samuel | no age given | 67 | |
| 1754 | Mary | aged 50 | 68 | |
| 1760 | James | aged 16 | 74 | thus born ~1744 |
| 1766 | James | aged 24 | 82 | thus born? 1742 |
| 1779 | Elizabeth | 4 mths | 96 | Buried Sep. Born Feb |
| 1786 | William | son of Wm.Sparchment shoemaker | 103 | Born 1782 |
| 1789 | James | parish? | 105 | James 1709 |
| 7/6/1793 | Sarah | a pauper | 6 | This probably Sarah Lionel who married James in 1737 |