Date

Type

Name (s), etc.

February 1951

Comment

A very rainy month

Friday after St. Barnabas

Burial

Amy Bennett, 75 years

Thursday after 8th after Trinity

Burial

Charlotte Elizabeth Aldridge

Friday after 8th after Trinity

Pre-Cremation

Ellen Chalmers

Saturday after Michaelmas (6th Oct.)

Marriage

Cyril Eric Bullock and Lavinia Maureen Seward

Tuesday after Trinity 22

Burial

No name recorded

All Saints' Eve

Comment

Main Electric Light used for first time

Friday after Remembrance Sun.

Burial

Mrs Westerham

23rd January 1952

Burial

Mrs Ratcliffe in Hargreaves Vault

15th February 1952

Special Service

Requiem for King George VI

6th July 1952

Comment

Thunderstorm - no-one noted at 8.00 Communion

17th August 1952

Baptism

Patricia Ann Smith

12th October 1952

Baptism

No name recorded

22nd November 1952

Funeral

George Saunders

7th December 1952

Comment

Very cold

28th December 1952

Comment

Cold and Foggy

6th January 1953

Funeral

Mrs Bertha L Butler

28th February 1953

Funeral

Mr Arthur L Moore

2nd March 1953

Funeral

Mr Walter Stacey

3rd March 1953

Funeral

Mrs Elizabeth Barker

7th March 1953

Marriage

J Harding and Miss M Lyford

16th March 1953

Funeral

Alice May

5th April 1953

Baptism

No name recorded

31st May 1953

Baptism

No name recorded

31st May 1953

Comment

These services had special reference to the forthcoming Coronation

21st June 1953

Baptism

No name recorded

12th July 1953

Comment

Heavy Rain

18th July 1953

Marriage

A J Easterbrook and M W Johns

26th July 1953

Baptism

No name recorded

23rd August 1953

Comment

Rain [both Morning and Evening services]

9th October 1953

Funeral

Claire Hopgood

1st November 1953

Comment

A very wet day

15th November 1953

Baptism

David Anderson

31st December 1953

Funeral

George St Clare William Collis (Organist at Arborfield Church 1940-1953)

31st December 1953

Funeral

William John Clewes

31st January 1954

Comment

Very cold

7th February 1954

Comment

Very cold and wet

12th February 1954

Funeral

William Robert Rogers

20th March 1954

Marriage

Anthony Gill and Constance Sellwood

20th March 1954

Marriage

Philip Cox and Celia Middleton

22nd April 1954

Funeral

Mrs Clewes

1st May 1954

Comment

A wet cold day

18th May 1954

Funeral

John Reuben Hopgood

19th May 1954

Funeral

Marion Annie Brant

13th June 1954

Comment

Very wet day

5th June 1954

Marriage

Ronald Albert Dance and Joyce Barbara Ann Mearing

11th July 1954

Baptism

Graham Martin Shorter

11th July 1954

Baptism

Stephen John Novell

25th July 1954

Comment

Very wet all day

12th August 1954

Funeral

Alice Maud Bennett

12th September 1954

Baptism

Margaret Christine Inglis

14th September 1954

Funeral

Henry Alfred Allen

2nd October 1954

Funeral

Joseph Leslie Henn

5th November 1954

Funeral

Ellen Ann Nunn

21st November 1954

Baptism

Timothy Michael Walpole

On Saturday 4th December 1954 at 5 p.m. The Reverend Charles Hamilton Wilson, MM, TD, was Instituted and Inducted as Rector of Arborfield by Arthur L Parham, sometime Bishop of Reading acting as Commissary Bishop for the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury

5th December 1954

Comment

Read the 39 Articles which were witnessed

13th December 1954

Funeral

Miss Constance Simonds

9th January 1955

Baptism

Marilyn Lorraine Jones

13th January 1955

Funeral

Henry Thomas Bennett

16th January 1955

Comment

Weather very bad, Floods after the snow

5th April 1955

Funeral

Alice Thumbwood

17th April 1955

Baptism

Nicholas Charles Thompson

20th April 1955

Funeral

Mary Richardson

8th May 1955

Baptism

Anthony John Phipps

29th May 1955

Baptism

Amanda Barbara Ellen

29th May 1955

Baptism

John Arthur Charles James

12th June 1955

Comment

Very wet morning

19th June 1955

Baptism

Diana Jane Piercey

3rd July 1955

Baptism

Jeanette Ann Spooner

31st July 1955

Baptism

Patricia Lesley Brick

31st July 1955

Baptism

Lorraine Gillian McFarland

7th August 1955

Marriage

Richard Ernest Taylor and Jean Charles

4th September 1955

Baptism

Barry Douglas Winsom

18th September 1955

Baptism

Anne Penelope Haddock

20th November 1955

Baptism

Andrew John Walker

27th November 1955

Baptism

Stephen Peter Worrell

26th December 1955

Marriage

David Lamont and Catherine Elizabeth Bell

25th February 1956

Funeral

George William Thumbwood

17th March 1956

Marriage

Peter Weston and Anita Bowyer

31st March 1956

Marriage

Arthur William Henry Adams and Jean Valentine Vokes

1st April 1956

Baptism

Gillian Rolfe

2nd April 1956

Marriage

William Hunter Watton and Martha Grace Millar

7th April 1956

Funeral

Alice Bentley - interment of ashes

23rd April 1956

Funeral

Gladys Emily Higgs

25th April 1956

Funeral

Gladys Lilian Hall

29th April 1956

Baptism

Richard John Turner

12th May 1956

Funeral

Arthur John Bentley (Memorial Service)

19th May 1956

Interment of Ashes

Arthur John Bentley

27th May 1956

Baptism

John Anthony Belcher

14th June 1956

Baptism

John Herbert Roberts

17th June 1956

Baptism

Peter Anthony Launchbury

19th June 1956

Baptism

Desmond Norton Bell

1st July 1956

Baptism

Michael John Mann

2nd July 1956

Funeral

John Antony Hayes Simonds

28th July 1956

Marriage

Martin Boyce and Evelyn Mary Wilson

30th July 1956

Funeral

Bernard Joseph Kent

5th August 1956

Baptism

Amanda Jane Aitchison

19th August 1956

Reception of Body

at 10:00 am

19th August 1956

Funeral

Eleanor Mary May, 2:30 pm

21st August 1956

Funeral

Beatrice Mary Simonds

6th September 1956

Funeral

John Bush

8th September 1956

Marriage

David Victor Sims and Diana Elizabeth Simpson

18th September 1956

Funeral

Frank Joyce Deacon

30th October 1956

Funeral

James MacMillan Wood

7th November 1956

Funeral

Edward Barrett

25th November 1956

Baptism

Martin John Leach

2nd December 1956

Baptism

Anita Jane Sword

23rd January 1957

Funeral

Genl. C. C. Lucas

16th February 1957

Baptism

Glyn Saunders

3rd March 1957

Baptism

Gillian Ann Hanow

3rd March 1957

Baptism

Susan Rosemary Richmond

16th March 1957

Funeral

Annie Kathleen Salter

17th March 1957

Baptism

Kim Elaine Brewer

30th March 1957

Marriage

Roy Leonard Darnell and Pauline Vyvian Taylor

31st March 1957

Baptism

Bruce Angus Watts

31st March 1957

Baptism

Carol Elizabeth Lamont

4th April 1957

Marriage

Brian Robert Kimmett and Ida Rosemary Clinton

13th April 1957

Marriage

Alan John Davis and Sheila Lambden

28th April 1957

Baptism

Celia Grace Smith

28th April 1957

Baptism

Caroline Margaret Waldon

20th May 1957

Funeral

James Goodyear

26th May 1957

Baptism

Alison Jeanette Lambden

16th June 1957

Baptism

Patricia Anne Newport

16th June 1957

Baptism

Sheila Mary Newport

9th July 1957

Funeral

Maria Workman

9th July 1957

Interment of Ashes

Lorna Chevalier

25th July 1957

Funeral

Henry Neat

28th July 1957

Baptism

Rex John Whitaker

3rd August 1957

Marriage

Raymond Morris and Maureen Priscilla Kate Wheeler

18th August 1957

Baptism

Nicholas John Whitehouse

24th August 1957

Funeral

James Druett

6th September 1957

Funeral

William Darling

25th September 1957

Baptism

Beatrice Wallas

6th October 1957

Baptism

Godfrey Peter Ayres

26th October 1957

Marriage

Desmond Norton Bell and Eileen Dorothy Minall

3rd November 1957

Baptism

Margaret Frances Lang

9th November 1957

Baptism

Susan Mary Boyce

8th December 1957

Baptism

Barbara Gail Prescott

21st December 1957

Reception of Coffin

Jesse Capper - at 12:15 pm

21st December 1957

Funeral

Jesse Capper - at 3:15 pm - conducted by Claude Sparshott

17th January 1958

Marriage

David Robert James Hamblin and Kathleen Mary Whiting

3rd February 1958

Funeral

Leonora Weldon Allsebrook

8th March 1958

Marriage

William John Neal and Margaret Gertrude Bell

8th March 1958

Marriage

Charles Gabriel and Rosemary Myfanwy Bell

22nd March 1958

Funeral

Elizabeth Mary Adams

23rd March 1958

Baptism

Graham Spinks

26th March 1958

Funeral

Athol Harry Capper

26th March 1958

Marriage

Ronald Ernest Lake and Joyce Gladys Lee

29th March 1958

Marriage

Leslie Bernard Partridge Wright and Shirley Anne Hart

13th April 1958

Baptism

Jane Elizabeth Anne Bentley

27th April 1958

Baptism

Patricia Ellen Sumner

2nd May 1958

Funeral

Rosemary Wells

25th May 1958

Baptism

David Norman Phipps

3rd June 1958

Funeral

William Greentree

6th June 1958

Funeral

Arthur Charles Butler

7th June 1958

Funeral

Irene Ravenscroft

14th June 1958

Marriage

Joseph Williams and Betty May Peck

14th June 1958

Marriage

Wynford Connick and Freda Mary Lee

21st June 1958

Marriage

Kenneth Frederick Fretwell and Ruth Barber

22nd July 1958

Funeral

Percy Bates

27th July 1958

Comment

Very wet night - said Office - only 7 present

16th August 1958

Marriage

Frederick Arthur Ottaway and Pamela Clark

24th August 1958

Comment

Very wet evening

10th October 1958

Funeral

William Arthur Bush

12th October 1958

Baptism

Paul Wickham

21st December 1958

Baptism

Caroline Patricia Wade

14th January 1959

Funeral

Beatrice May Druett

8th March 1959

Baptism

John Robert Lang

15th March 1959

Baptism

Nigel Anthony Gill

16th March 1959

Funeral

Clifford William Haylett

20th March 1959

Funeral

Cyril Herbert Bennett

29th March 1959

Comment

Easter Day: Rainy during day; Very wet evening

12th April 1959

Baptism

Julie Edith Sutton

3rd May 1959

Baptism

Clive William Harlow

17th May 1959

Baptism

Susan Joan Turner

17th June 1959

Communion

Requiem for A E Herbert - 9:30 am

17th June 1959

Funeral

Arthur Edward Herbert - 2:30 pm

21st June 1959

Baptism

Terry Bye

19th July 1959

Baptism

Stephanie Ann Davis

25th July 1959

Marriage

Arthur Albert Mills and Rosa Alice Dulcie Wheeler

5th August 1959

Funeral

Sidney Herbert Wickham

23rd August 1959

Baptism

Janice Lake

5th September 1959

Marriage

Anthony Gwyn Davies and Barbara Ellen Lillian Lee

8th September 1959

Funeral

James Parker

25th November 1959

Comment

(last day of Register)