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Hi - I haven't been active for some time owing to pressure of work and other things but thanks for the message anyway. I can't really help you, I didn't know anything about the church myself until I got the info which you can see in this thread - I just knew that my GG Grandfather had been been minister there from the census information.

I've recently retired so who knows I may become more active again now I have a bit of free time!

Thanks for contacting me anyway!

Veron 

I would say 1920s. I have pic of my mum taken in about 1920 and the style of the dresses of the little girls in the front row of your photo is very similar. I'm attaching it for you to compare.

Cheers Veron

Hi..... this is my guess of the bit you have posted.


Stocker …. A Rector of …… I wish to be buried as simply as may be and I forbid any eulogy whatever to be placed on my grave beside my dear wife after payment of all my just debts I leave the whole of my property of every description to my younger daughter Harriet Julia, with the exceptions here following namely to my older daughter Frances Harriet if she survive me one hundred pounds sterling free of …… duties, to my son Edward Seymour the following books and articles of plate: the Guernsey inkstand the ?Barrow or ?Barton cup the Savios.. (plain) bread basket the books with ……. and the Winchester gold medal (for …..) the prize books stamped with the arms of St S….. College the Bible and Prayer book presented on the sixth of July 1863, the manuscript books of my grandfather John Stocker and those of ?Gaynsford Smith BA and all my ?classical books in Greek and Latin. Finally I pray our Saviour, Father


Any help?

Veron

freebmd.co.uk has limited coverage of the 30s, so you could get lucky otherwise ancestry and findmypast (amongst other sites) have the indexes which you can manually search through

FreeBMD also has images of indexes including ones which haven't been transcribed yet. You need to click on the "view images" link on the homepage and then follow the instructions to manually search through them. I had a quick look, and they have marriages for all the years up to 1945. As with all these sites, it is very time consuming to search them, but it is possible, and also free, which I believe the other sites aren't for the scanned images.

Cheers Veron 

Non-conformists also issued birth certificates before 1837, I have one from 1826 issued by Dr William's Library which I understand used to register births for non-conformists in a bid to make them as "official" as the parish registers.

However - the one I have is small and square - the one in Lark Rise to Candleford definitely looked the conventional long shape. It would be interesting to see what is in Flora Thompson's original book, since she presumably remembered what had happened at the time! Incidentally Flora worked in the village post office from 1891 to 1897 -

http://www.visitnorthoxfordshire.com/site/areas-to-visit/towns-and-villages/fringford?gclid=CPeRvKmo7JgCFQ00Qwod7U2L1Q

Veron