Eyam, Derbyshire - 1665-6 Plague Victims

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Location: Eyam, Derbyshire
Surnames/tags: Eyam Derbyshire

The Eyam Category

• The Population of Eyam 1664-1667
• Eyam Museum & Plague Register, Eyam Parish Church, Eyam, Derbyshire
• Plague Victims
• Plague Survivors
• Resident 1664-7 but discounted from statistics or died of another cause
• Plague Burial Sites

Plague Deaths List: In memory of those who died in the Eyam Plague 1665-6 …
The Population of Eyam 1664-67, Eyam Museum: Research by John and Francine Clifford. The principal sources were the Hearth Tax assessments and the Eyam Bishop's Transcripts and many other documents in the Staffordshire Public Records Office and National Archive at Kew.
Wikipedia on Plague
The Timeline of Plague

The following table shows the names of those commemorated on the Register.

The Date of Death and Age has been added and links are being created with a profile for each person.

First Name	Surname	Sex	Date of Birth/Baptism	Date of Death	Person Profile	Notes
VICTIMS OF THE EYAM PLAGUE1665-1666 IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
September 1665
George	Viccars	m	Pre 1644	7th	Viccars	George Viccars was not a householder and is known by tradition as the first victim of the plague. He was a journeyman tailor employed by Alexander Hadfield.
Edward	Cooper	m	c1630	22nd	Cooper	Edward's wife Mary Cooper survived the plague. She married Alexander Hadfield (who was a plague victim) in 1665 and finally married John Coe after the plague. She had another child in 1670.
Peter	Hawksworth Snr	m	02.10.1636	23rd	Hawksworth Snr
Thomas	Thorpe	m	c1625	26th	Thorpe
Sarah	Syddall	f	27.02.1653	30th	Syddall
Mary	Thorpe	f	18.06.1654	30th	Thorpe
October 1665
Matthew	Banes	m	28.04.1633	1st	Banes
Elizabeth	Thorpe	f	c1630	1st	Thorpe
Margaret	Banes	f	c1640	3rd	Banes
Mary	Thorpe	f	c1605	3rd	Thorpe
Sythe	Torre	f	c1605	6th	Torre
William	Thorpe	m	c1600	7th	Thorpe
Richard	Syddall	m	22.08.58	11th	Syddall
William	Torre	m	12.09.1630	13th	Torre
Amy	Torre	f	c1632	13th	Torre
John	Syddall	m	c1615	14th	Syddall
Ellen	Syddall	f	23.03.1642	15th	Syddall
Humphrey	Hawksworth	m	17.07.64	17th	Hawksworth
Martha	Banes	f	31.05.1663	17th	Banes
Jonathan	Ragge	m	17.12.1654	18th	Ragge
Humphrey	Torre	m	20.11.1664	19th	Torre
Thomas	Thorpe	m	20.12.1656	19th	Thorpe
Mary	Banes	f	c1610	20th	Banes
Elizabeth	Syddall	f	10.08.1645	22nd	Syddall
Alice	Ragge	f	21.01.1665	23rd	Ragge
Alice	Syddall	f	25.05.1656	24th	Syddall
George	Ragge	m	c1625	26th	Ragge
Jonathan	Cooper	m	11.12.1653	28th	Cooper
Humphrey	Torre	m	c1600	30th	Torre
November 1665
Hugh	Stubbs	m	04.07.1647	1st	Stubbs
Hannah	Rowland	f	26.05.1650	5th	Rowland
John	Stubbs	m	c1620	15th	Stubbs
Anne	Stubbs	f	c1625	19th	Stubbs
Elizabeth	Warrington	f	pre1650	29th	Warrington
December 1665
Mary	Rowland	f	20.06.1652	1st	Rowland
John	Rowbotham	m	04.05.1653	9th	Rowbotham	There are Stoney Middleton connections with this family.
boy	Rowe	m	?1665	14th	Rowe	Infant
Mary	Rowe	f	c1645	15th	Rowe
William	Rowe	m	c1640	19th	Rowe
Thomas	Wilson	m	c1661	22nd	Wilson
William	Rowbotham	m	c1610	24th	Rowbotham	There are Stoney Middleton connections with this family.
Anthony	Blackwell	m	02.06.1665	24th	Blackwell
January 1666
Robert	Rowbotham	m	11.03.1649	1st	Rowbotham	There are Stoney Middleton connections with this family.
Samuel	Rowbotham	m	?	1st	Rowbotham	There are Stoney Middleton connections with this family.
Abel	Rowland	m	02.12.1655	15th	Rowland
Isaac	Wilson	m	c1659	28th	Wilson
February 1666
Thomas	Rowland	m	c1620	14th	Rowland
John	Wilson	m	12.02.1657	15th	Wilson
Deborah	Wilson	f	16.11.1645	17th	Wilson
Alice	Wilson	f	12.12.1665	18th	Wilson
Anthony	Blackwell	m	c1615	21st	Blackwell
March 1666
John	Wilson Jnr	m	c1625	1st	Wilson Jnr
Ann	Blackwell	f	03.05.1646	22nd	Blackwell
April 1666
Thomas	Allen	m	c1640	6th	Allen
Joan	Blackwell	f	c1644	6th	Blackwell
Alice	Thorpe	f	21.03.1652	15th	Thorpe
Margaret	Blackwell	f	c1618	16th	Blackwell
Samuel	Hadfield	m	21.03.1651	18th	Hadfield
Infant son	Allen	m	?	28th	Allen
Emmott	Syddall	f	c1643/45	29th	Syddall
May 1666
Robert	Thorpe	m	c1650	2nd	Thorpe
William	Thorpe	m	c1662	2nd	Thorpe
June 1666
Isaac	Thornley	m	23.01.1653	1st	Thornley
Anne	Thornley	f	pre1662	12th	Thornley	Named Chapman
Jonathan	Thornley	m	30.12.1655	12th	Thornley
Anthony	Skidmore	m	27.04.1656	12th	Skidmore
Elizabeth	Thornley	f	c1630	15th	Thornley	Widow. Elizabeth Chapman remarried on 2nd February 1664 and died Elizabeth Thornley. There was a child by this marriage.
James	Mower	m	?	15th	Mower
Edytha	Mower	f	22.01.1660	15th	Mower
Elizabeth	Buxton	f	26.12.1647	15th	Buxton
Mary	Heald	f	09.03.1651	15th	Heald
Francis	Thornley	m	27.11.1664	17th	Thornley
Mary	Skidmore	f	19.03.1648	17th	Skidmore
Sarah	Lowe	f	c1655?	17th	Lowe	Alias Naylor
Mary	Mellor	f	?	18th	Mellor	Or 28th Mary Mellor was not a householder and appeared to have no family in Eyam. She was perhaps a visitor or was in service, or even a vagrant, though the surname was found in Foolow and Great Longstone.
Jane	Thornley	f	30.12.1655	18th	Thornley
Anne	Townend	f	c1625	19th	Townend	Widow
Abel	Archdale	m	?	20th	Archdale	Or 26th
Edward	Thornley	m	15.09.1655	22nd	Thornley	Named Chapman
Ann	Skidmore	f	c1620	24th	Skidmore	Widow
Jane	Townend	f	09.05.1647	25th	Townend
Emmott	Heald	f	c1645	26th	Heald
John	Swann	m	28.12.1658	29th	Swann
July 1666
Elizabeth	Heald	f	c1625	1st	Heald
William	Lowe	m	c1620	2nd	Lowe
Ellenor	Lowe	f	c1625	2nd	Lowe
Deborah	Elliott	f	c1648	3rd	Elliott	Deborah Elliott an orphan may have been living with her widowed aunt Jane Naylor
George	Darby	m	c1610	4th	Darby
Ann	Coyle	f	c1635	5th	Coyle
Bridget	Talbot	f	08.05.1636	5th	Talbot
Mary	Talbot	f	26.03.1648	5th	Talbot
John snr	Daniel	m	c1610	5th	Daniel	John Daniel married Elizabeth Syddall, a plague widow on April 24th 1666. There was a child called John of his first marriage who survived the plague.
Elizabeth	Swann	f	c1630?	6th	Swann
Mary	Thornley	f	c1640	6th	Thornley
John	Townend	m	13.05.1649	7th	Townend
Anne	Talbot	f	13.04.1661	7th	Talbot
Francis	Ragge	m	28.12.1656	8th	Ragge
Elizabeth	Thorpe	f	18.02.1653	9th	Thorpe
Elizabeth	Lowe	f	29.05.1657	9th	Lowe
Editha	Torre	f	c1610	11th	Torre
Ann	Lowe	f	17.07.1659	13th	Lowe
Margaret	Taylor	f	13.09.1635	14th	Taylor
Alice	Thornley	f	27.11.1664	16th	Thornley
Jane	Naylor	f	c1610	16th	Naylor	Widow of Richard who died in 1648
Edytha	Bocking	f	18.11.1649	17th	Bocking
Elizabeth	Thornley	f	c1662	17th	Thornley
Jane	Talbot	f	08.05.1658	17th	Talbot
Robert	Whiteley Snr	m	c1610	18th	Whittle Snr	Robert Whittle. This family were variously known as White and Whiteley.
Catharine	Talbot	f	c1620	18th	Talbot	2nd wife. Richard Talbot remarried in 1643. Joan his first wife died in 1639.
Thomas	Heald	m	20.11.1653	18th	Heald
Robert	Torre	m	27.12.1650	18th	Torre
George	Short	m	c1610	18th	Short
Thomas	Ashe	m	c1630	18th	Ashe
William	Thornley	m	29.11.1640	19th	Thornley
Francis	Wood	m	c1630	22nd	Wood
Thomas	Thorpe	m	10.01.1647	22nd	Thorpe
Robert	Thorpe	m	17.07.1659	22nd	Thorpe
Robert	Talbot	m	c1644?	24th	Talbot
Joan	Naylor	f	c1625	25th	Naylor
Thomas	Hatley	m	?	25th	Hatley	Gentleman. Thomas Hatley was not listed in the Hearth Tax returns, so may have been visiting, perhaps from Baslow or Edensor, where the name was known.
Richard	Talbot	m	c1610	25th	Talbot	Richard Talbot remarried in 1643. Joan his first wife died in 1639.
John	Naylor	m	c1620	26th	Naylor
Joan	Talbot	f	06.03.1656	26th	Talbot
Ruth	Talbot	f	c1645	26th	Talbot
Anne	Chapman	f	c1625	28th	Chapman	or 26th
Lydia	Chapman	f	17.07.1639	28th	Chapman
Margaret	Allen	f	c1635	29th	Allen
John	Torre	m	31.05.1641	29th	Torre
Samuel	Elliott	m	29.01.1660	29th	Elliott
Rowland	Mower	m	c1630	29th	Mower
Thomas	Bocking	m	c1647	30th	Bocking
Nicholas	Whiteley	m	20.09.40	30th	Whittle	Whittle on population register. This family were variously known as White and Whiteley.
Jonathan	Talbot	m	19.05.50	30th	Talbot
Mary	Whiteley	f	07.01.1638	30th	Whittle	Whittle on population register. This family were variously known as White and Whiteley.
Rowland	Mower	m	31.01.1664	30th	Mower
Sarah	Elliott	f	?	31st	Elliott
Joseph	Allen	m	c1630	31st	Allen
Anne	Morten	f	10.03.1939	31st	Morten
Robert	Kemp	m	05.10.1656	31st	Kemp
August 1666
George	Ashe	m	?	1st	Ashe
Mary	Naylor	f	23.03.51	1st	Naylor
John snr	Hadfield	m	c1605	2nd	Hadfield
Robert	Buxton	m	31.03.1639	2nd	Buxton
Anne	Naylor	f	13.05.1660	2nd	Naylor
Jonathan	Naylor	m	19.05.57	2nd	Naylor
Elizabeth	Glover	f	10.04.1662	2nd	Glover
Alexander	Hadfield	m	23.01.1642	3rd	Hadfield	Mary Cooper survived the plague. She married Alexander Hadfield (who was a plague victim) in 1665 and finally married John Coe after the plague. She had another child in 1670.
Jane	Naylor	f	18.06.54	3rd	Naylor
Godfrey	Torre	m	01.10.1665	3rd	Torre
John	Hancock	m	28.02.1661	3rd	Hancock
Elizabeth	Hancock	f	09.10.1658	3rd	Hancock
Margaret	Buxton	f	12.07.1644	3rd	Buxton
Robert	Bocking	m	01.11.1646	3rd	Bocking
Thomas	Hawksworth	m	c1630	4th	Hawksworth
Margaret	Percival	f	26.11.1665	4th	Percival	Or 2nd
Anne	Swinnerton	f	14.02.1664	4th	Swinnerton
Rebecca	Morten	f	c1644	4th	Morten
Robert	French	m	28.07.1655	6th	French
Richard	Thorpe	m	23.08.1663	6th	Thorpe
Thomas	Frith	m	15.06.1645	6th	Frith
John	Elliott	m	c1630	7th	Elliott	John Elliott, also known as Royse. The early spelling of Elliott was Yealott. They were in Eyam by 1660 when Samuel was baptised.
Oner	Hancock	m	26.04.63	7th	Hancock
John	Hancock	m	c1625	7th	Hancock
William	Hancock	m	c1650	7th	Hancock
Abraham	Swinnerton	m	c1640	8th	Swinnerton
Alice	Hancock	f	14.03.1652	9th	Hancock
Anne	Hancock	f	14.10.1656	10th	Hancock
Francis	Frith	m	c1615	10th	Frith	Churchwarden, appears well connected. He was related by marriage to the Furness family.
Elizabeth	Kemp	f	02.11.1645	11th	Kemp
William	Hawksworth	m	05.11.1661	12th	Hawksworth
Thomas	Kemp	m	05.03.1643	12th	Kemp
Francis	Bocking	m	10.02.1661	13th	Bocking
Richard	Bocking	m	13.09.1663	13th	Bocking
Mary	Bocking	f	20.01.1666	13th	Bocking
John	Trickett	m	c1640	13th	Trickett
Anne	Trickett	f	22.05.1642	13th	Trickett
Mary	Whiteley	f	c1615	13th	Whittle	Whittle on population register. This family were variously known as White and Whiteley.
Sarah	Blackwell	f	21.06.1649	13th	Blackwell	Sarah Blackwell was an orphan living with her married sister Anne Morten at Bretton.
Bridget	Naylor	f	02.10.1664	13th	Naylor
Robert	Hadfield	m	c1646	14th	Hadfield
Margaret	Swinnerton	f	c1645	14th	Swinnerton
Alice	Coyle	f	04.08.1661	14th	Coyle
Alice	Bocking	f	27.06.1634	15th	Bocking	Alice Bocking was Francis' second wife. There were 3 surviving children by each marriage. Francis survived the plague and remarried. Alice was Mary Cooper's sister.
Thurstan	Whiteley	m	c1610	15th	Whittle	Whittle on population register. This family were variously known as White and Whiteley.
Bridget	Talbot	f	c1590	15th	Talbot	Widow. Bridget Talbot was the mother of Richard.
Michael	Kemp	m	01.01.1654	15th	Kemp
Anne	Wilson	f	c1615	15th	Wilson
Thomas	Bilston	m	?	16th	Bilston	There were Bilstons in Eyam in 1632. He could have been visiting or a traveller.
Thomas	Frith	m	15.06.45	17th	Frith	Anthony Frith's family were also known as Bore or Bower.
Joan	French	f	27.03.1651	17th	French
Mary	Elliott	f	?	17th	Elliott
Sarah	Morten	f	c1662	18th	Morten
Elizabeth	Frith	f	02.10.1652	18th	Frith	Anthony Frith's family were also known as Bore or Bower.
Anne	Elliott	f	c1635	18th	Elliott
Thomas	Ragge	m	08.01.1654	18th	Ragge
Anne	Hawksworth	f	09.10.1664	19th	Hawksworth
Joan	Ashmore	f	15.02.1635	19th	Ashmore
Elizabeth	Frith	f	c1616	20th	Frith
Margaret	Morten	f	c1640	20th	Morten
Anne	Rowland	f	c1625	20th	Rowland	Spinster
John	Buxton	m	c1610	20th	Buxton
Frances	Frith	f	c1640	21st	Frith
Ruth	Morten	f	02.05.1665	22nd	Morten	Or 21st
daughter	Frith	f	1666	22nd	Frith
Lydia	Kemp	f	c1620	22nd	Kemp	Widow
Peter	Hall	m	c1620	23rd	Hall	A Bretton family. He was churchwarden at the parish church.
son	Morten	m	8.1666	24th	Morten
Catherine	Mompesson	f	c1640	25th	Mompesson
Samuel	Chapman	m	09.04.48	25th	Chapman
Anne	Frith	f	06.11.1653	25th	Frith
Joan	Howe	f	c1640	27th	Howe
Thomas	Ashmore	m	16.03.1665	27th	Ashmore
Thomas	Wood	m	23.12.1632	28th	Wood
William	Howe	m	21.02.1664	30th	Howe
Mary	Abell	f	24.02.1666	30th	Abell
Catharine	Talbot	f	15.04.1666	30th	Talbot
Francis	Wilson	m	c1610	30th	Wilson
September 1666
Elizabeth	Frith	f	02.03.1656	1st	Frith
William	Percival	m	c1638	1st	Percival
Robert	Trickett	m	16.07.1665	2nd	Trickett
Henry	Frith	m	07.01.1649	3rd	Frith
John	Wilson	m	?	4th	Wilson
Mary	Darby	f	28.12.1645	4th	Darby
William	Abell	m	22.12.1639	7th	Abell
George	Frith	m	19.06.1659	7th	Frith
Godfrey	Ashe	m	c1659	8th	Ashe
William	Hawksworth	m	26.04.1635	9th	Hawksworth	William Hawksworth and Sarah Furness were married on 29th September 1665. There was a child born after William had died. This contradicts the traditional story that Sarah was the wife of Peter snr.
Robert	Wood Snr	m	c1610	9th	Wood Snr
Humphrey	Merrill	m	c1606	9th	Merrill
Sarah	Wilson	f	19.11.1637	10th	Wilson
Thomas	Moseley	m	c1600	13th	Moseley
Joan	Wood	f	c1610	13th	Wood
Mary	Percival	f	18.01.1663	18th	Percival
Francis	Morten	m	c1620	20th	Morten
George	Butterworth	m	c1652	21st	Butterworth	Probably he was an apprentice who came from Stoney Middleton.
Anne	Townend	f	c1635	22nd	Townend
Anne	Glover	f	21.02.1636	23rd	Glover
Anne	Hall	f	c1620	23rd	Hall
Francis	Hawksworth	m	02.10.1652	23rd	Hawksworth	Anne Hawksworth, widow of John lived in Bretton. Her son Francis was a plague victim.
infant	Townend	f	?	29th	Townend
Susannah	Morten	f	09.11.1651	29th	Morten
October 1666
Jonas	Parsley	m	?	1st	Parsley
Grace	Morten	f	c1623	2nd	Morten
Peter	Ashe	m	13.09.63	4th	Ashe
Abraham	Morten	m	?	5th	Morten
Thomas snr	Torre	m	c1605	6th	Torre
Benjamin	Morten	m	05.05.1661	6th	Morten
Elizabeth	Morten	f	14.11.1647	8th	Morten
Alice	Taylor	f	25.10.1640	8th	Taylor
Anne	Parsley	f	?	11th	Parsley
Mary	Morten	f	?	12th	Morten
Samuel	Hall	m	20.07.1651	13th	Hall
Peter	Hall	m	25.01.1657	13th	Hall
Joseph	Morten	m	02.10.1659	14th	Morten
Grace	Morten	f	01.03.1663	15th	Morten
Elizabeth	Daniel	f	c1620	17th	Daniel	Elizabeth Syddall remarried John Daniel (146) on the 24th April 1666. She is entered in the register at her death as Elizabeth Daniel. She left a nuncupatius will in which she entrusted her surviving son to Robert Thorpe. The Letters of Administration and the Probate Certificate name Joseph Syddall, son of Elizabeth Daniel as being the child in question, thus confirming the marriage.
Anne	Grundy	f	15.06.1651	17th	Grundy	Was possibly living as a servant in Francis Morten's household at Bretton.
Francis	Morten	m	30.12.1649	18th	Morten
William	Morten	m	09.09.1645	28th	Morten
November 1666
Abraham	Morten	m	18.01.1639	1st	Morten