Phillimore Transcripts are an important source for genealogists as they were extracted directly from parish registers and the registers themselves were almost one hundred years younger! So they would have been far easier to read. This may seem to be stating the obvious, but it is sometimes forgotten.

Matlock Marriages were extracted for Phillimore by Mr. Llewellyn Lloyd Simpson of Derby from the four volumes of Matlock's parish registers that are listed below and were originally published with the permission of the then Rector of Matlock, Rev. J.W. Kewley.

• Volume I (1637 - 1732)
  Originally appeared to have been in two parts.
  
  "A True Regester of all the Christin Mariages & Burialls in the pa.... of Matlock since 1637, September 29 .... Henrye Smith, Rector. Robert Oates, Henry Knowles, Churchwardens."
  
  In sections:
  
  Baptisms 1686 - 1687
  Marriages 1637-1688
  Burials 1637 - 1687
  Baptisms 1689 - 1726
  Marriages 1689 - 1732 (in double columns)
  Burials 1689 - 1732
  Baptisms 1727-1732
  
  
• Volume II. (1732 -1780)
  "The Register Book of the parish of Matlock begun in the year 1732. Thomas Hinkesman, Rector. George Maddock, Curate."
  
  Register begins with Terriers etc., and "The Custom and Manner of tything Wool & Lamb."
  
  In 1754 the marriages were recorded in both Volume II and in the new marriage register, but after then no more marriages were recorded in this volume.
  
  Volume III. (1754 - 1781)
  Usual printed Marriage Register, four entry forms per page.
  
  
• Volume IV. (1782 - 1812)
  Similar to Vol. III, but only three entries per page.

Simpson added notes to his transcripts, about the state of the register and his difficulty reading it, as he went along and some of his additional comments are noted below.

The Groom's name was always written in parish registers before that of the Bride, so the Grooms Indexes on this site are closer to the original register entries than the Brides Indexes.