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Bill Butler has agreed to supply his collection of events that happened on this day. These complement the automated extracts from PealBase.

Bill Butler's Events for 7th October

Year	Event	Reference
1711	The Journal of the Royal Society (Philosophical Transactions, 1711, Volume 25, page 528) has this report by John Chamberlayne. “In the Parish of Sampford-Courtney near Oakhampton in Devon, on the 7th of October, about 3 or 4 a Clock in the Afternoon, there was a great darkness as the Minister was Catechising the Children, that he could hardly see with Spectacles: And as soon as Prayers were over, some young men went to ringing, as commonly they used to do; and there were several People in the Church Porch talking; and of a sudden, a great Fire-Ball fell in between them, and threw some one way, some another; but no-one was hurted. The Ringers said, they never knew the Bells go so heavy in all their lives, and were forced to leave off: And being very weary, and looking out of the Belfrey into the Church, saw 4 Fire-Balls more, a little bigger than a Man's Fist, which of a sudden broke to pieces; so that the Church was full of Fire and Smoak.”	nv
1890	The memorial fund to Henry Johnson, who died on January 7, 1890 was closed. A total of £22-7-6d had been contributed.	nv
1911	Gillett and Johnston cast a new ring of ten for Hillingdon, Middlesex, which were dedicated on this day. According to the report, they were the gift of Mr J F Stillwell, of Moorcroft, Hillingdon, and the parishioners. It also noted that they were tuned to Canon Simpson's principle, and were the closest ring to London so tuned.	nv
1978	Members of the Worcester and Districts Association rang their longest peal with 18,891 Stedman Caters at All Saints, Worcester. The peal, composed and conducted by John Pladdys, took 12 hours and 2 minutes. They had intended to ring 26,019 changes but had shortened the peal due to illness. Three weeks later members of the Ancient Society of College Youths rang one nearly four thousand changes longer. See October 28, 1978.	nv
1978	5056 Pudsey Surprise Major was rung at Weedon Bec, Northants, by a band all with the first name of “Christopher”. See October 22, 1977 and October 6, 1979.	NP

Birthdays for 7th October

First pealers for 7th October

1895	First peal rung by George Martin. Recorded peal total is 618.
1893	First peal rung by Edward Caunce. Recorded peal total is 304.
1902	First peal rung by F Ash. Recorded peal total is 1.
1902	First peal rung by H Howland. Recorded peal total is 2.
1902	First peal rung by James A Teale. Recorded peal total is 28.
1902	First peal rung by W H Stephenson. Recorded peal total is 12.
1903	First peal rung by Charles Merefield. Recorded peal total is 4.
1903	First peal rung by John T Coppins. Recorded peal total is 8.
1905	First peal rung by Herbert Bullock. Recorded peal total is 1.
1905	First peal rung by Joseph [Painswick] Waite. Recorded peal total is 9.
1905	First peal rung by Walter P Cross. Recorded peal total is 11.
1905	First peal rung by Frederick Reid. Recorded peal total is 5.
1905	First peal rung by Harry Entwistle. Recorded peal total is 36.
1908	First peal rung by Alex Hutchinson. Recorded peal total is 59.
1908	First peal rung by John C Hunt. Recorded peal total is 3.
1908	First peal rung by John Corrigan. Recorded peal total is 39.
1909	First peal rung by Frederic Cobb. Recorded peal total is 3.
1909	First peal rung by Alec White. Recorded peal total is 1.
1910	First peal rung by William F Lambert. Recorded peal total is 1.
1911	First peal rung by Thomas Bolton. Recorded peal total is 7.
1911	First peal rung by Robert Harvey. Recorded peal total is 1.
1911	First peal rung by Henry Whanslaw. Recorded peal total is 3.
1911	First peal rung by William Felton. Recorded peal total is 3.
1911	First peal rung by Ernest Hyde. Recorded peal total is 5.
1922	First peal rung by Frederick Juggins. Recorded peal total is 2.
1922	First peal rung by Richard S Bastable. Recorded peal total is 1.
1922	First peal rung by Albert J Haysom. Recorded peal total is 1.
1922	First peal rung by Gerald F Haysom. Recorded peal total is 1.
1922	First peal rung by Ernest A Hixson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1922	First peal rung by David [Shrewsbury] James. Recorded peal total is 2.
1925	First peal rung by Charles Chambers. Recorded peal total is 1.
1925	First peal rung by David Cracknell. Recorded peal total is 21.
1925	First peal rung by Thomas Moyes. Recorded peal total is 2.
1925	First peal rung by Thomas Noller. Recorded peal total is 1.
1928	First peal rung by William [Lyonshall] Davies. Recorded peal total is 1.
1928	First peal rung by Robert G Fletcher. Recorded peal total is 7.
1929	First peal rung by Frederick J Bulley. Recorded peal total is 3.
1929	First peal rung by Wilfred G Folley. Recorded peal total is 3.
1929	First peal rung by Leonard S Mason. Recorded peal total is 3.
1929	First peal rung by Edward A J Coombes. Recorded peal total is 2.
1929	First peal rung by John A D Webb. Recorded peal total is 4.
1931	First peal rung by Arthur J Brown. Recorded peal total is 12.
1933	First peal rung by Doris E Lidbetter. Recorded peal total is 47.
1933	First peal rung by Harry Theedom. Recorded peal total is 3.
1933	First peal rung by William M Light. Recorded peal total is 5.
1933	First peal rung by Frederick H Luff. Recorded peal total is 1.
1933	First peal rung by William H [Lytchett Minster] Saunders. Recorded peal total is 1.
1933	First peal rung by Harold E White. Recorded peal total is 20.
1933	First peal rung by A Leslie Rawson. Recorded peal total is 3.
1934	First peal rung by Frederick A Rallison. Recorded peal total is 2.
1936	First peal rung by Eric Brunton. Recorded peal total is 33.
1938	First peal rung by Stanley Wood. Recorded peal total is 3.
1944	First peal rung by Clinton Gould. Recorded peal total is 1.
1944	First peal rung by Wilfred [Bretforton] Newman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1944	First peal rung by Cecil Tompkins. Recorded peal total is 2.
1944	First peal rung by William Gunson. Recorded peal total is 3.
1944	First peal rung by Fred Howarth. Recorded peal total is 14.
1944	First peal rung by Arthur [Penwortham] Tomlinson. Recorded peal total is 4.
1944	First peal rung by Thomas Watson. Recorded peal total is 6.
1946	First peal rung by C Leonard Catlin. Recorded peal total is 1.
1946	First peal rung by Norman Chamberlain. Recorded peal total is 4.
1946	First peal rung by Kilby R Holtom. Recorded peal total is 220.
1946	First peal rung by Thomes Wilcox. Recorded peal total is 1.
1946	First peal rung by N Horton. Recorded peal total is 2.
1946	First peal rung by N [Thurlby] Ward. Recorded peal total is 1.
1947	First peal rung by Cyril E Jaine. Recorded peal total is 75.
1950	First peal rung by Gordon C Herd. Recorded peal total is 10.
1950	First peal rung by Gordon Jones. Recorded peal total is 1.
1950	First peal rung by Berwyn Pearce. Recorded peal total is 1.
1950	First peal rung by Cen Stokes. Recorded peal total is 1.
1950	First peal rung by Clarence Stokes. Recorded peal total is 1.
1950	First peal rung by Frederick [Blaenavon] Stokes. Recorded peal total is 2.
1950	First peal rung by Thomas E Smeltzer. Recorded peal total is 21.
1951	First peal rung by Diana Arnold. Recorded peal total is 1.
1951	First peal rung by Douglas A Collins. Recorded peal total is 15.
1951	First peal rung by Frank Hornby. Recorded peal total is 6.
1951	First peal rung by J Anthony Hornby. Recorded peal total is 6.
1951	First peal rung by Richard Hornby. Recorded peal total is 5.
1951	First peal rung by Sydney Jeffery. Recorded peal total is 9.
1957	First peal rung by Peter H Gardner. Recorded peal total is 1397.
1960	First peal rung by S Paul Stearman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1960	First peal rung by Norman Wright. Recorded peal total is 1.
1961	First peal rung by J Barrie Jones. Recorded peal total is 5.
1961	First peal rung by Peter Morris. Recorded peal total is 50.
1961	First peal rung by Pauline Jeppeson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1961	First peal rung by Roy [Great Barr] Coleman. Recorded peal total is 9.
1961	First peal rung by Allan Duggan. Recorded peal total is 1.
1961	First peal rung by Norma Jeffery. Recorded peal total is 1.
1961	First peal rung by J Stuart Coutts. Recorded peal total is 9.
1961	First peal rung by Christine J Hart. Recorded peal total is 12.
1961	First peal rung by Neal G Forester. Recorded peal total is 1.
1961	First peal rung by Keith E Fursdon. Recorded peal total is 3.
1961	First peal rung by Terry Hyde. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964	First peal rung by Thomas Baker. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964	First peal rung by Peter J England. Recorded peal total is 1479.
1964	First peal rung by Ray Luxton. Recorded peal total is 2.
1964	First peal rung by Walter Neath. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964	First peal rung by Harold R Blagden. Recorded peal total is 4.
1965	First peal rung by Cathie E Williamson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1967	First peal rung by Andrew S Hayden. Recorded peal total is 191.
1967	First peal rung by Glenda E Emmett. Recorded peal total is 2.
1967	First peal rung by Alastair T P Pearce. Recorded peal total is 3.
1967	First peal rung by Keith Daniels. Recorded peal total is 52.
1967	First peal rung by Iris E Piper. Recorded peal total is 14.
1967	First peal rung by Derick E Kirton. Recorded peal total is 32.
1972	First peal rung by Milly Charnock. Recorded peal total is 3.
1972	First peal rung by Kevin J Harrold. Recorded peal total is 176.
1978	First peal rung by Freda Ivings. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978	First peal rung by C Robin Phipps. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978	First peal rung by Andrew G [Dunsford] Smith. Recorded peal total is 304.
1978	First peal rung by Nigel P Kettle. Recorded peal total is 3.
1978	First peal rung by Sarah J Tenant-Flowers. Recorded peal total is 3.
1978	First peal rung by Julie M Webb. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978	First peal rung by Mary Kelly. Recorded peal total is 27.
1979	First peal rung by Gillian N Mott. Recorded peal total is 11.
1979	First peal rung by Janet E Stevenson. Recorded peal total is 11.
1982	First peal rung by Howard A Tarry. Recorded peal total is 5.
1984	First peal rung by P Jonathan Websdall. Recorded peal total is 3.
1985	First peal rung by Robert E Wolstenholme. Recorded peal total is 3.
1985	First peal rung by Henry Locke-Wheaton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1989	First peal rung by Zoe L Hassall. Recorded peal total is 1.
1989	First peal rung by Chrystine A Butcher. Recorded peal total is 1.
1990	First peal rung by Angus S Dodds. Recorded peal total is 24.
1990	First peal rung by John J R Seymour. Recorded peal total is 1.
1990	First peal rung by Sophie M Viney. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First peal rung by Anne Hopley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1994	First peal rung by Brian Beecroft. Recorded peal total is 4.
1994	First peal rung by Michael A Williams. Recorded peal total is 117.
1995	First peal rung by Noel Tuitt. Recorded peal total is 1.
2000	First peal rung by Hazel M Matthews. Recorded peal total is 1.
2004	First peal rung by Margaret A French. Recorded peal total is 2.
2012	First peal rung by Catherine M Richardson. Recorded peal total is 5.
2012	First peal rung by Mary Bragdon. Recorded peal total is 2.
2012	First peal rung by Sherwood K Peters. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013	First peal rung by Dave S Symonds. Recorded peal total is 1.
2017	First peal rung by Jen Laedlein. Recorded peal total is 2.
2019	First peal rung by Lindsay R Small. Recorded peal total is 5.
2023	First peal rung by Evan G Llewellyn-Poyntz. Recorded peal total is 1.

First peals in towers for 7th October

1771	First peal on the bells at Halesworth, St Mary, Suffolk. Recorded peal total is 95.
1778	First peal on the bells at West Haddon, All Saints, Northamptonshire. Recorded peal total is 8.
1786	First peal on the bells at Holmfirth, Holy Trinity, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 35.
1871	First peal on the bells at Holbeck, Leeds, St Matthew, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 122.
1897	First peal on the bells at St Austell, Holy Trinity, Cornwall. Recorded peal total is 16.
1899	First peal on the bells at Emberton, All Saints, Buckinghamshire. Recorded peal total is 50.
1920	First peal on the bells at Norwich, All Saints Centre, Norfolk. Recorded peal total is 30.
1933	First peal on the bells at Lytchett Minster, unknown, Dorset. Recorded peal total is 12.
1961	First peal on the bells at Church Leigh, All Saints, Staffordshire. Recorded peal total is 14.
1972	First peal on the bells at Quebec City, Holy Trinity, Quebec. Recorded peal total is 18.
1978	First peal on the bells at Dunsford, St Mary, Devon. Recorded peal total is 2.
1989	First peal on the bells at Thornborough, St Mary the Virgin, Buckinghamshire. Recorded peal total is 4.

First peals in method for 7th October

1954	First tower bell peal of Bordesley Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1958	First tower bell peal of Wealdstone Little Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1959	First tower bell peal of Snettisham Bob Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1960	First tower bell peal of Smithfield Doubles. Recorded peal total is 4.
1973	First tower bell peal of Birchington-on-Sea Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1977	First tower bell peal of Farewell Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1985	First tower bell peal of John the Baptist Treble Bob Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1987	First tower bell peal of Carbon Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 6.
1987	First tower bell peal of Irwell Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 7.
1992	First tower bell peal of Scudamore Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1994	First tower bell peal of Dominica Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1994	First tower bell peal of Fundenhall Bob Doubles. Recorded peal total is 1.
1995	First tower bell peal of Granny Smith Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1995	First tower bell peal of Green Tye Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1995	First tower bell peal of Kilmacolm Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1995	First tower bell peal of Netheravon Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1995	First tower bell peal of Pexa Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1997	First tower bell peal of Penenden Heath Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1997	First tower bell peal of Seaview Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1998	First tower bell peal of Ebony Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 7.
1998	First tower bell peal of Innisidgen Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 2.
1998	First tower bell peal of Quarr Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2001	First tower bell peal of East Carlton Delight Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
2001	First tower bell peal of Quimper Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006	First tower bell peal of Arno's Vale Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006	First tower bell peal of North Tawton Five-O Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2007	First tower bell peal of Compton Gifford Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2007	First tower bell peal of Grace Darling Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2007	First tower bell peal of Reykjavik Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009	First tower bell peal of Siward's How Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2011	First tower bell peal of Zipadeedoodah Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015	First tower bell peal of Thornbridge Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.