England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Cholsey lies on the northern edge of Berkshire forming part of the ancient boundary with neighbouring Oxfordshire, indeed this portion of Berkshire was ceded to the latter county during reorganisations of Local Government in 1974. Cholsey is located about 3 miles south of the market town of Wallingford and sits on the southern banks of the Thames, which runs temporarily from north to south hereabouts just to complicate matters. Cholsey sits on the A329 road which connects Wallingford through to Reading. Whilst Cholsey has a slight presence on that road most properties lies a half mile west. Modern developments have been constructed across the parish, Brunel's Great Western rail line from London to Bristol passes through the parish and Cholsey has a station for stopping trains. Cholsey's economy would have been farming based but relatively diverse considering its location of the alluvial soils of Thames valley making for rich pastures augmenting the usual arable regime of the area. The Thames drains through nearby Goring Gap resuming its eastward flow through the capital to the North Sea. Cholsey is sited at around 50 metres above the sea, the plain ends abruptly to the southwest as the chalk escarpment of the Berkshire Downs rises from the Thames floodplain to local heights approaching 190 metres on Lowbury Hill. By the standards of this area Cholsey parish was fairly large, covering just over 4,100 acres it would have supported a population of almost 1,200 parishioners. In Domesday times Cholsey was one of the King's possessions and a larger & more important place than it is today, its included an impressive 27 ploughs, an 136 acre meadow and 3 mills and estimates place it in the largest 20% of settlements recorded in that book, a far cry from today's substantial village. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 3rd October 1754 - 14th October 1790 | Berkshire Record Office - Reference - D/P38/1/5 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns & Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
2 | 25th January 1791 - 25th March 1815 | Berkshire Record Office - Reference - D/P38/1/6 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None NB the parish failed to adopt a Rose style register in 1813 continuing with this register to the stated date |
3 | 23rd May 1815 - 3rd April 1837 | Berkshire Record Office - Reference - D/P38/1/8 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Brightwell
St Agatha
Sotwell St James |
Wallingford
St Leonard
Crowmarsh Gifford St Mary Magdalene, Oxfordshire |
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Mongewell
St John the Baptist, Oxfordshire
North Stoke St Mary, Oxfordshire Ipsden St Mary, Oxfordshire |
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