The page for Marriages & Burials 1672 are missing so that does`nt help.
I'm afraid there are more than that missing from the
Mayfield Registers, also some entries are nigh on impossible to read.
Here's what I found when searching...sorry if it's a bit jumbled but this is how I've taken the info from the fiche
This information is from microfiche of baptisms, burials and mostly marriages supplied by the IHGS - part of their Sussex Collection
From a typed frontispiece to the transcriptions and reads as follows - with some of my own notes thrown in...
Copy presented to the Church by the transcriber W H Challen 01/03/1944
The first register book is the original paper record with
Baptisms 1570 Mch 25 to 1664 and odd entries to 1673
Burials 1570 Mch 26 to 1664
Marriages 1570 May 7 to 1663 Apr 21
and has the events mixed together till 1591 separate to 1605, then mixed 1606-10, then separate from 1611 to 1645 then irregular and out of order some entries being all for certain families covering several years.
He then lists the years, families and events - families include Shoesmith - Carey - Pecke - Martin - Ashdowne and some others.
Second Register book contains separately
Baptisms 1664 Feb 25th to 1763 Dec 26
Burials 1665 Oct to 1763 Nov 20
Marriages 1665 Dec 14 to 1754 Feb 22 and copy (I presume from a 'copy' of the original PR) 1755 to 1757
1666 to 1695 from Bishops Transcripts as far as available for this period.
Baptisms 1664 end May, nearly a page cut off and a piece cut off 1665
Transcriber WH Challen and dated 1 March 1944 -
Burials 1570 - 1644 1st Register
1665-1763 2nd Register
3rd Book 1764-1789
by Courtesty of Rev T B Oliver
"Examination of these books revealed further deficiencies"
Burials - no entries 1671-1672
Incomplete 1681 ends 27 June
Marriages, no entries for years 1643. 1646 to 1654. 1657 to 1662. 1664. 1661. 1672. 1682 to 92. 1706. 1739.
Baptisms incomplete 1681 to 1683. 1691
no entries 1739 blank pages between 1738 and 1740
A BT for 1739 is available at Chichester Diocesan Registry
Mr Challon must have looked at these because they appear on the microfiche as 1739 "copy of BT"
1666 not complete
1667 1668 no BT
1670-1672 no BT
the years 1676 1677 and 78 are muddled births marriages and deaths all mixed up
1688 no BT
The Parish Register commences 1570.
According to 1831 census Births Marriages and Burials 1664 to 1693 are defective.
The present vicar Rev T B Oliver reports that the 2nd Register covering 1664 to 1764 has many gaps
1664 Feb to May the rest cut out
1671 no burials or marriages and so forth.
Census also records Baptisms and Burials 1801 to 1806 also defective "but this does not appear to be so"
In the 1st Register book 1 leaf 19th Aug 1577 to 9th March 1577-8 is missing - entries 1646 to 1664 are irregular and defective, Jo. Maynard, vicar recording 'the register was neglected'
BT's at Chichester for Mayfield commence 1666
He then goes on to transcribe from the BT's and records 1666 "this BT is partly mutilated" - he dates and signs his notes 01/03/1944
The biggest problem I've found when looking at transcriptions is that they don't tell you what's
not there, ie the missing pages or illegible handwriting.
Suey
