The 1897 editions of Pilton Parish Magazine were bound into the back of 'Home Words for Heart & Hearth' conducted by Rev. Charles Bullock. A copy of the complete document is available for study in The Pilton Story Office in the Church Hall. The Vicar at the time was Rev. William H M Bagley. The names of baptisms, marriages and burials for the year are as follows:
Baptisms
Archibald Tanner, Florence May and Maud Bament, Albert Ernest Thurlow, Sidney William Tancock, Ida Gertrude and Florence May Smith, William Gammon, Horace Reginald Eustance, James Henry Reed, Amelia Maud Delve, Percy George Lee, Elsie Rosina Shaddick, Beatrice Amy Dodwell, Edith Annie Robbins, Florence May Gould, Victor Walter Knill, Frederick William Thorne, Annie Maud Maria and Minnie Beatrice Blanche Ellis, Alice Maud Crocker, Elsie Brown, Kenneth John Prideaux, Albert Richard Norman, Frederick William Isaac, Winifred Annie Ellacott, Frederick Henry Palmer, Frederick Thomas Norman, William Kieft, George Inkerman Kingdon, Gertrude Anne Parsons, Beatrice Annie Heddon, Alice Mary Alford, Laura Winifred Ovey, Emily Jane Peagem, Leslie Reginald Matthews, Thomas Henry Mogridge, Lilian Annie Rice and Edwin George Tucker.
Marriages
Robert Cole to Isabel Priscilla Goss, Richard Mealand to Sarah Ellen Manning Bates, William Tucker to Elizabeth Rottenbury, Charles Hancock to Eliza Gilbert, Edward Henry Amy to Ellen Jago, George Lewis Featherstone to Ellen Tanner, Sidney Kemp to Bessie Maud Delve
Burials
Emmanuel Harris, Edward Roberts, Sidney Symons, Harry Hill, Archibald Tanner, William Morris, John Ashton, Susannah Abbott, Jane Mountjoy, Elizabeth Hall, Mary Elizabeth Galliford, Edward James Abbott, Elizabeth Cawsey, John Montagu White, Ashmael Helyer, Percival Huxtable, John Bartlett Lee, Hugh Bawden, Frederick William Isaac, Maud Mary Gaydon, Victor Charles Harris, Elizabeth Conibear, William Tallyn, Francis Lee, Thomas Brailey, Jane Ward and Eva Manning.
Thanks to Sally Turner for scanning the magazine pages.